Akiko is a Japanese short story by Etsuko Takebe. It won the 1985 Bungeikai Newcomer Award and appeared in the June 1985 issue of Bungeikai.

A short story by Etsuko Takebe, published in the June 1985 issue of Bungeikai after winning the 1985 Bungeikai Newcomer Award.

A short story centered on Michiko, who is married to a Jewish American writer, and on the quiet pressure created by family circumstances and cultural distance. Collected in Passover Festival, it is positioned as the 1985 Bungei-kai Newcomer Prize-winning work.

Through a single day in a family living far from home, the distance between culture and blood ties slowly comes into view.