At the age of 17, he studied economics at Waseda University in Tokyo starting in 1912. The family moved to what is now Kameyama, Mie, and from there to Nagoya when he was age two. His father was a merchant, who had also practiced law. Tarō Hirai was born in Nabari, Mie Prefecture in 1894, where his grandfather had been a samurai in the service of Tsu Domain. Other authors who were special influences on him were Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whom he attempted to translate into Japanese during his days as a student at Waseda University, and the Japanese mystery writer Ruikō Kuroiwa.īiography Before World War II His pen name is a rendering of Poe's name. Ranpo was an admirer of Western mystery writers, and especially of Edgar Allan Poe. Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogoro Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the "Boy Detectives Club" ( 少年探偵団, Shōnen tantei dan). Tarō Hirai ( 平井 太郎, Hirai Tarō, October 21, 1894 – July 28, 1965), better known by the pen name Edogawa Ranpo ( 江戸川 乱歩) was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction.
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