Takuya Asakura

Takuya Asakura was born in Sapporo in 1966 and studied at the University of Tokyo. In 2002, he received the first grand prize of the “This Mystery is Amazing!” competition for his novel “Yokkakan no Kiseki,” which was later adapted into a film. Asakura also worked as a translator and translated, among other works, Matt Haig’s “The Midnight Library” from English into Japanese.