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Fukuda Kiyoto Award

ふくだきよとしょう

An award named for children's literature scholar Kiyoto Fukuda, honoring juvenile fiction, nonfiction for children, and educational books.

Children's literature
Established
2006
Organizer
Japan Juvenile Writers Association
Category
Children's Literature, Fairy Tales, and Picture Books
Target
Professional
Frequency
1 per year
Status
Ended

Description

The Fukuda Kiyoto Award was established in 2005 to honor Fukuda Kiyoto, who left diverse achievements in children's literature and children's culture as the second managing director and president of the Japan Children's Literature Authors Association. It targeted nonfiction, historical and autobiographical literary works, and educational books for children published during the previous year, and ended with the 10th edition, succeeded by the Children's Literature Nonfiction Literature Award.

Related Awards

  • Children's Literature Nonfiction Literature Award

Official Resources

http://www.jidoubungei.jp/cn9/nonfiction.html

Past Winners

No winner
Kutsuki Shou くちき しょう award

光のうつしえ 廣島 ヒロシマ 広島 is an award-recognized work by 朽木祥. The bibliographic review is based on the title recorded in the award data and keeps publication identifiers separate from magazine or submission records.

A work recorded as an award-recognized title by 朽木祥.

award-recognized workbibliographic verificationpublication status
No winner
Kunimatsu Toshihide くにまつ としひで award

This children's nonfiction book traces the history of the crested ibis in Japan, its path toward extinction, and the people who worked for its protection and return to the wild. It presents conservation not as an abstract ideal but as a concrete effort by people and communities.

Through the efforts to protect the crested ibis, the book asks how people and living creatures can coexist.

202 pages
crested ibisconservationreturn to the wildchildren's nonfiction
井上こみち いのうえ こみち award

Komichi Inoue’s House Calls on Horseback is a children’s nonfiction book about veterinarian Hiromichi Yamasaki, who visits animals on Awaji Island by horse, portraying his care for animal lives and the encounters made possible by that slower way of traveling.

It portrays the faces of life that become visible through veterinary house calls made by horse on Awaji Island.

128 pages
children’s nonfictionveterinarianAwaji Islandanimal life
小林しげる こばやし しげる award

Ah, Hotojima National School is a 児童文学 by 小林しげる. It draws readers into its world through choices made by the characters, shifting relationships, and tension within each scene.

Ah, Hotojima National School is a focused award-related work with a clear shape as 児童文学.

award-related workcharacter relationships児童文学
Toshio Kage かげ としお award

A historical book for young readers about the Edo-period astronomer Asada Goryu, portraying scientific curiosity within the limits of his age. Through his gaze toward the moon, it conveys the joy of learning.

月のえくぼを見た男 麻田剛立 is shaped by the premise and narrative voice that supported its award recognition.

children's literaturehistory of scienceastronomyEdo periodbiography
Yoshiharu Sekino せきの よしはる award

Northern Route: Journey through Siberia and Northern Route: Journey through Sakhalin are nonfiction volumes for young readers in which Yoshiharu Sekino physically retraces a possible route by which the Japanese people came to the archipelago. The journey from Siberia through Sakhalin toward Hokkaido connects human migration with local ways of life.

A travel record that asks where people came from, not through maps alone but through the body in motion.

142 pages
children’s nonfictionexplorationhuman migrationSiberia and Sakhalin
Minoru Taketazu たけたづ みのる award

オホーツクの十二か月 is an award-winning work by 竹田津実. It is presented here as a work recognized for the tension of its scenes, relationships, and expressive control.

オホーツクの十二か月 is a work read through the lens of its award recognition and the author's distinctive style.

327 pages
award-winning workauthorial stylecontemporary context
Akira Ikegami いけがみ あきら award

ニュースの現場で考える by 池上彰 is an award-recognized work built around news reporting, autobiographical essays, nonfiction for young readers. It presents its conflict through a focused premise and leaves the reader with a clear sense of the genre and emotional stakes.

ニュースの現場で考える draws the reader into a story shaped by news reporting.

173 pages
news reportingautobiographical essaysnonfiction for young readers