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Edition 71 (2023)

Essay

Winners

2 people
伊沢理江 いざわ りえ award

A nonfiction work that meticulously investigates a Japanese fishing boat sinking, portraying the reality of the sea and the weight of memory.

It uncovers the truth of the ship that sank into the deep sea through layered reporting.

288 pages
nonfictionmaritime disasterinvestigative reportingrecording
Mari Yoshihara よしはら まり award

A nonfiction work that traces the relationship between postwar Japan and music through letters addressed to Leonard Bernstein and the exchanges between Japan and the United States.

Each letter sketches the contours of postwar Japan and music.

448 pages
nonfictionmusicLeonard Bernsteinpostwar Japan