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Kodansha Nonfiction Award こうだんしゃノンフィクションしょう

Edition 27 (2005)

NonfictionLiterary award

Winners

2 people
Shuji Okuno おくの しゅうじ award

A biographical nonfiction work about Natsuko, a woman who moved through the world of postwar smuggling in Okinawa. Against the turmoil of the occupation period, it depicts an era where goods, money, power, and human ties intersect through one woman's life.

The book excavates Okinawa's smuggling era under occupation through the life of Natsuko.

405 pages
postwar Okinawasmugglingbiographyoccupation periodwomen's history
Kazunori Nakagawa なかがわ かずのり award

A two-volume nonfiction account of power struggles and structures of control surrounding the Fuji Sankei Group. It traces the Shikanai family's dominance, the actions of Hisashi Hieda and others, and the relationship between shareholding and media corporations to reveal the inside of a major Japanese media group.

The book uses extensive reporting to uncover the inner workings of a family and organization that controlled a media empire.

365 pages
media historycorporate controlFuji Sankei Groupnonfictionpower