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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 34 (2012)

NonfictionLiterary award

Winners

2 people
Yasuaki Ooshika おおしか やすあき award

This investigative nonfiction work follows what happened around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in the Prime Minister's Office, TEPCO, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and financial circles. Based on extensive interviews, it depicts decisions made in crisis and systems that failed to function.

The book follows who made which decisions behind an unprecedented nuclear accident and what failed to work.

656 pages
Fukushima Daiichi accidentinvestigative reportingcrisis managementpoliticscorporate responsibility
Koichi Yasuda やすだ こういち award

This nonfiction work investigates a movement advocating exclusion of Korean residents in Japan and the online discourse that supports it. Through reporting on street actions, participants' backgrounds, and the structure of discrimination spreading through society, it reveals the darkness behind a movement calling itself patriotic.

The book traces how online hatred moved into the streets and makes the structure of discrimination visible.

366 pages
xenophobiahate speechonline nationalismdiscriminationinvestigative reporting