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We checked on this; Rawson's work is, amusingly, vastly more available in Japan than it is in his native America. I'm quite surprised, honestly; you'd think there'd be some mystery libraries in America or something. It's possible there are, they're just probably a bit obscure. Certainly you can't find anything by Rawson at a public library in New York or Dallas (places I've lived and have library cards).
Except, amusingly, a book on children's magic by Rawson (a stage magician, he apparently did a lot of magic books in addition to mysteries) which the Dallas Public Library has.
EDIT: Now if we can just get a John MacDonald shout-out, I'll be content, but I suspect post-Golden Age American mystery fiction becomes a tenuous thing for Japanese consumption after Chandler or so.
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