Established

2005

Organizer

Takarajima-sha

Category

General Fiction and Popular Fiction

Selection Method

Open call

Target

Open

Frequency

1 per year

Status

Ended

Description

The Japan Love Story Grand Award is a public literary award sponsored by Takarajimasha targeting romance novels. The grand prize winning work receives 5 million yen in prize money and benefits such as book publication. Up to the 3rd edition, film adaptation was considered for the grand prize work. It has been suspended since the 10th edition.

Prize

Main Prize

Grand Prize: 5 million yen prize money and book publication

Cash Prize

5,000,000 JPY

• Special Prize: Selected from works that passed the first screening (not awarded in some editions)
• Film adaptation of the grand prize work was considered up to the 3rd edition

Official Resources

Past Winners