Bungeishunju Ltd. “I’ve never seen hell like this” Hama Naka Akira’s shocking new work “Family” goes on sale October 24th!

[Bungeishunju Ltd.] “I’ve never seen hell like this” Akira Hamanaka’s shocking new work, “Family,” goes on sale October 24th! ​
Bungei Shunju Co., Ltd. Press release: October 24, 2025 To Members of the Press “I’ve never seen hell like this” Akira Hamada’s shocking new work, “Family,” hits shelves on October 24th! I can’t sleep until I finish reading it. A thrilling, nonstop suspense story inspired by the Heisei era’s mass deaths.
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Bungeishunju Ltd. (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Shigeyuki Iikubo) will release Aki Hamanaka’s latest novel, “Family,” today, October 24th. The motif of this work is a serial murder and corpse abandonment case that surfaced in Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture in 2011. A place that was supposed to be safe was suddenly taken away, and it became dominated by violence and fear, and then… More than a decade after the incident was reported, Hama Naka has continued to tackle this shocking work, finally turning it into a novel. ◼︎Synopsis “The police don’t just get involved in domestic disputes.” On November 3, 2011, a naked woman ran into a police station, bringing the incident to light. The woman, who called herself Okudaira Mino, had come to the police station a little over six months earlier to complain that her younger sister and her husband were being robbed of their money by a strange woman. However, the police had refused to treat the case as a criminal offense due to the police’s policy of non-intervention in civil matters. “Apparently, in the real world, the perfect crime can be easily accomplished. Ruri-chan learned that.” With the rescue of Okudaira Mino, the words “death, death, death” came to light… Her captor, the “strange woman” known as Yabe Ruriko, created a
pseudo-family around herself, where she led the confinement and assault of her victims under the guise of “discipline.” She remained elusive to the police for decades, ultimately being involved in the mysterious deaths of thirteen people.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/43732/812/43732-812-b653ccd52c062cec8578ab8235593cdd-1840×2677.jpg People meet women they shouldn’t meet, become entangled in the threads of fate, and lose their lives. What did “family” mean to Ruriko? And what does “love” mean? This masterpiece of crime entertainment depicts gruesome crimes and the flaws hidden in “non-intervention in civil matters,” yet its stunning readability draws the reader in and takes them to unexpected places. ◼︎ “I couldn’t put it down” — Comments from bookstore employees
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/43732/812/43732-812-7c2185fc162207e935117e3f7e269770-1772×1265.jpg ■Author Profile: Hamanaka Aki Born in Tokyo in 1976. Made his debut in 2013 with “Lost Care,” winning the Japan Mystery Literature Award for Newcomers. In 2019, he won the Oyabu Haruhiko Prize and the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for “Frozen Sun,” and in 2022 he won the Watanabe Junichi Literature Prize for “Scorching Heat.” His other works, “Scream” and “The Tragedy of the W Prefectural Police,” were made into TV dramas, and his “Lost Care” was made into a film, which garnered a lot of attention. His other works include “Cocoon,” “Blue,” “And Then, It Becomes the Foam of the Sea,” “Long Afternoon,” and “Heartbeat.”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/43732/812/43732-812-5d62d72dccb6f86dccfb4d62928cf2ec-3900×2601.jpg ■Bibliographic information Book title: “Family” Author: Ha Manchuken Regular price: 1980 yen (tax included) Publisher: Bungeishunju Co., Ltd. Size: 46, hardcover, 320 pages Release date: October 24, 2025 ISBN: 978-4-16-392030-6 Bibliography URL:
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