I'd like to nominate
Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto.
The only Japanese police procedural novel i've read and one of the only translated ones i could find tbh as most don't/didn't make it outside of Japan it seems. I enjoyed it a lot and rated it enough to buy it in paperback form as well digital for my collection.
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The corpse of an unknown provincial is discovered under the rails of a train in a Tokyo station, and Detective Imanishi is assigned to the case.
In a police procedural by Japan's foremost master of mystery, Inspector Imanishi Eitaro, a typically Japanese detective fond of gardening and haiku, must follow a killer's trail across the social strata of Japan.
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