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Kaiko Takeshi Nonfiction Award かいこうたけしノンフィクションしょう

Edition 9 (2011)

NonfictionLiterary award

Winners

1 people

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.

296 pages
nonfictiondestitute Japanese abroadPhilippinespovertyisolation