A nonfiction work that follows the people behind Japanese-language broadcasts from Moscow and traces the movement of language and information during the Cold War.

From the broadcast floor, voices rise across an era.

満州黒川開拓団の女性たちの証言を中心に、終戦直後に起きた性暴力や被害の実相を明らかにする取材記録。

ソ連兵へ差し出された娘たち

A nonfiction account tracing climber Nobukazu Kuriki and the media environment around him.

It gets at the reality behind a climber who championed the idea of sharing dreams.

A nonfiction work based on fieldwork in Germany with people who regard animals as sexual partners. Interweaving the author’s own experience of sexual violence, it examines love, violence, consent, and the limits of understanding others. Beginning from deep discomfort, it turns the question back on prejudice itself.

Entering taboo territory, the book keeps asking where love and violence part ways for human beings.

A nonfiction work following the friendship and practice of contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang and Tadashige Shiga, who keeps planting cherry trees in Iwaki, Fukushima. It layers post-disaster land, art, memory, and border-crossing action to depict hope through two unconventional lives.

Ninety-nine thousand cherry trees and contemporary art come together in post-disaster Fukushima in an almost miraculous way.

Mokusatsu is a nonfiction work by Rihito Hatakeyama about independent candidates he has followed over many years. By tracing the words and actions of candidates often left outside mainstream coverage, it reexamines how Japanese election reporting and democracy are seen.

Through the battles of candidates who are rarely reported on, the book brings the hidden outlines of elections and democracy into view.

マラス：暴力に支配される少年たち is a work by 工藤律子 recognized in this award edition. Award records, public bibliographic data, and retail bibliographies were checked, with standalone book identifiers separated from items that could not be verified.

Bibliographic notes on the award-recognized work マラス：暴力に支配される少年たち.

A nonfiction work tracing the lives of Kenkoku University graduates in former Manchuria through interviews across wartime and postwar years. It layers the ideal of multiethnic coexistence with the realities each person carried after defeat.

It recovers, through testimony, the dreams and postwar lives of young people who gathered at Kenkoku University.

ジャスミンの残り香：「アラブの春」が変えたもの is a work by 田原牧, recorded here as a 受賞 selection. The entry summarizes the award context and bibliographic findings in a form suitable for a work profile.

A concise profile of ジャスミンの残り香：「アラブの春」が変えたもの by 田原牧, including award and bibliographic context.

A nonfiction work following children after abuse and examining the possibility of recovery through doctors, foster parents, and supporters. It focuses not only on harm but on the process of rebuilding safe relationships.

Verified prize-work information is organized for bibliographic use.

This nonfiction work follows the professionals who repatriate the bodies and remains of people who die overseas. Through interviews with workers and bereaved families, it examines what it means to mourn the dead and how those left behind come to face loss.

The book looks at the meaning of mourning through the work of bringing the dead home across borders.

A nonfiction work by Takehide Mizutani that reports on Japanese men in the Philippines who have fallen into hardship and cannot easily return or rebuild their lives, portraying social isolation that cannot be reduced to individual failure.

Based on field reporting, it depicts Japanese men in the Philippines who have lost any place to return to.

空白の五マイル：人跡未踏のチベット・ツアンポー峡谷単独行 is a nonfiction work that follows concrete people and events to illuminate memory, society, and institutions, opening a wider view of the era through individual experience.

空白の五マイル：人跡未踏のチベット・ツアンポー峡谷単独行 is a prize-recognized work by 角幡唯介.

インパラの朝：ユーラシア・アフリカ大陸684日 is a work by 中村安希. ユーラシアとアフリカを旅した日々を綴るノンフィクション。貧困、紛争、病、移動する人々の声に触れながら、世界の生活を足元から見つめる。

インパラの朝：ユーラシア・アフリカ大陸684日 presents 中村安希's literary concerns through a compact and memorable form.

'最後の冒険家: 太平洋に消えた神田道夫' is a winning work of the 開高健ノンフィクション賞 by Naoki Ishikawa.

'最後の冒険家: 太平洋に消えた神田道夫' is a winning work of the 開高健ノンフィクション賞 by Naoki Ishikawa.

ねじれ：医療の光と影を越えて is a ノンフィクション by 志治美世子. The work develops its subject through a focused narrative voice and leaves room for readers to consider the emotions and social questions behind the story.

A focused ノンフィクション that follows the pressure points hidden in everyday life and memory.

Goodbye, Silent Navy: The Classmate Who Rode the Subway is a nonfiction work by Ken Ito that begins with a university classmate who became a perpetrator in the Tokyo subway sarin attack and traces the background of the case and the human turning points behind it. It connects personal memory with a public tragedy and asks why an ordinary student moved toward a grave crime.

A nonfiction work that asks where a person's path diverges through the grave crime of a classmate.

This nonfiction work draws on the author’s reporting as an Africa correspondent, gathering the words and silences of people living amid conflict, poverty, and discrimination. The submission title Toi Chihei was retitled The Boy Made into a Postcard for publication.

A record that looks closely at lives on a distant horizon, without reducing them to outside pity.

A nonfiction work about a journey toward Alaska and a confrontation with dreams and solitude. As the narrator asks why she travels alone, movement through distant places becomes an inward search.

ウーマンアローン is a work in which 廣川まさき draws out the time and emotion beneath its subject.

虎山へ is a nonfiction work by 平岡泰博. As the award-recognized work, it builds its appeal around the images and human movement suggested by the title, giving even a compact form a sense of layered time.

The title 虎山へ conveys the atmosphere and tension at the center of the work.

越境人たち六月の祭り is a nonfiction work by 姜誠. As the award-recognized work, it builds its appeal around the images and human movement suggested by the title, giving even a compact form a sense of layered time.

The title 越境人たち六月の祭り conveys the atmosphere and tension at the center of the work.

ダッカへ帰る日：故郷を見失ったベンガル人 is a nonfiction work by 駒村吉重. As the award-recognized work, it builds its appeal around the images and human movement suggested by the title, giving even a compact form a sense of layered time.

The title ダッカへ帰る日：故郷を見失ったベンガル人 conveys the atmosphere and tension at the center of the work.