Ryoe Tsukimura (born 1963) is a Japanese novelist from Osaka Prefecture. After beginning his career as a screenwriter for television animation in 1988, he made his debut as a novelist in 2010 with "Kiryū Keisatsu." He received the Nihon SF Taisho Award for "Kiryū Keisatsu: Jibaku Jōkō," the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers for "Kiryū Keisatsu: Ankoku Shijō," the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for "Dobaku no Hana," and the Yamada Futaro Prize for "Damashu Shujō." His representative "Kiryū Keisatsu" series follows a Metropolitan Police Department unit and its foreign mercenaries in a world where mechanized close-combat armor has become operational, exploring institutional power, international conflict, and ethnic division.