Masaki Yamada

Masaki Yamada born January 16 1950 in Nagoya is a Japanese crime and science fiction author. He has won the Nihon SF Taisho Award1 the Seiun Award three times and an award for mystery fiction. His first story was published in 1974. His novel Aphrodite was translated into English in 2004. He also wrote After the Long Goodbye a Ghost in the Shellrelated novel. Source: Wikipedia