Tomoo Kimura's "When a Parent Becomes Mentally Ill" was selected for an honorable mention in the Japan Children's Literature Association Criticism Newcomer Award. It addresses the urgent situation of children facing a parent's mental illness and asks how children's literature can receive and narrate such experience.

A critical essay that looks at parental mental illness and children's experience from the perspective of children's literature.

Yusuke Tominaka's "The Sixtieth-Year Kirin: An Essay on Chiaki Saeki's Moeyo Ki no Hana" was selected as an honorable mention in the Japan Children's Literature Association Criticism Newcomer Award. It rereads Saeki's work and considers its maturity and critical significance.

A critical essay that rereads Chiaki Saeki's work and explores the reach of children's literature criticism.