| Mikihiko Renjō | |
| Birth Name: | Jingo Katō |
| Birth Date: | 11 January 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan |
| Death Place: | Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Alma Mater: | Waseda University, Political Economy Department |
| Period: | 1978–2013 |
| Genre: | Popular fiction, mystery novels |
| Notableworks: | Modorigawa shinjū, Koibumi, Ningen dõbutsuen |
| Awards: | Mystery Writers of Japan Award (1981) Naoki Prize (1984) |
was a Japanese writer, winner of the Naoki Prize. He was also an ordained priest within the Ōtani-ha branch of Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism.
He was born in Nagoya, and graduated from the Political Economy Department of Waseda University.[1] He studied writing screenplays in Paris, France, and made his debut in 1978 with Henchō nininbaori. In 2009 he was diagnosed with stomach cancer.[2] He died, after the cancer also spread to the liver, on October 19, 2013.[3]
Many of his writings have been made into movies.