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Mainichi Publishing Culture Award まいにちしゅっぱんぶんかしょう

Edition 72 (2018)

Literature and Arts CategoryHumanities and Social Sciences CategoryNatural Sciences CategoryPlanning CategorySpecial Award

Winners

5 people
Hikaru Okuizumi おくいずみ ひかる award

昭和戦前期の上流社会を舞台に、家族、恋愛、政治の影が絡み合う長編小説。緻密な時代描写とサスペンスを含んだ構成が読みどころとなる。

雪の階を上るように、戦前昭和の闇へ踏み込んでいく。

587 pages
昭和史上流社会長編小説サスペンス
Takumi Sato さとう たくみ award

総力戦体制の下で形成されたメディアと公共性のあり方を検討する研究書。ファシズムを過去の例外としてではなく、近代社会の情報環境と結びつけて考察する。

総力戦のメディア空間から、公共性の危うさを読み解く。

352 pages
メディア史総力戦公共性ファシズム
松田洋一 まつだ よういち award

A science book that follows the evolution of sex determination and chromosomes, beginning with the present state of the human Y chromosome. It explains why sex exists and how male-female systems and sex changes arise, drawing on findings from genome research.

It looks from human chromosomes across the long history in which living things evolved sex.

269 pages
sex determinationchromosome evolutionsexual reproductiongenome research
内田泉之助 うちだ いずのすけ award

A long-running annotated series of Chinese classics published by Meiji Shoin. The award recognized the completion of the whole project, so it is treated as a series achievement rather than a single book with one identifier.

A major annotated series for reading Chinese classics brought its long publishing history to completion.

Chinese classicsannotationclassical Chinese literaturelong-term publishing project
松村圭一郎 まつむら けいいちろう encouragement award

An essayistic work that examines the hidden divisions created by markets and states through field experience in Ethiopia and anthropological thinking. It reframes unease and guilt as feelings that can help rebuild society.

An anthropology for restoring connections in a divided world.

192 pages
cultural anthropologygift and exchangestate and marketconnection