Junji Fukuda's Under the Osmanthus Tree won the grand prize of the seventeenth Kita City Uchida Yasuo Mystery Literary Award. Beginning with a childhood memory of pressed osmanthus flowers, it was recognized as a short mystery that builds its puzzle through atmosphere and emotionally controlled prose.

A childhood memory of pressed flowers gradually opens into a quiet mystery.

Masao Kato's Lucky or Unlucky received the mayor's prize in the seventeenth Kita City Uchida Yasuo Mystery Literary Award. It sets a trap for the reader through the conversations of a dual-income couple and the conflicts each carries, turning everyday exchange into a mystery with a surprising reversal.

A couple's casual conversation quietly overturns the reader's assumptions.

Rei Yokoyama's Locking the Secret in the Night received the encouragement prize in the seventeenth Kita City Uchida Yasuo Mystery Literary Award. It is a school mystery in which characters enter a school at night to approach a hidden truth, combining ghost-story and coming-of-age elements with the energy of a young writer.

At a school by night, ghostly secrets and the mysteries of youth cross paths.