Kodansha Nonfiction Award こうだんしゃノンフィクションしょう
Edition 34 (2012)
Winners
2 peopleThis 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.
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.