Starting from a 2008 fishing-boat sinking, this nonfiction work follows the gap between the official explanation and the facts uncovered through reporting. It digs into not only how the vessel went down, but also the unease left between testimony and institutions.

The truth behind the accident cannot be closed with a single explanation; the accumulation of testimony reveals a different outline.

A nonfiction account of the 2004-2011 Chunichi Dragons years, built from testimony by twelve people around the team and the author's own reporting experience. It examines Ochiai's leadership and team-building from the inside of a win-first clubhouse.

Rather than focusing only on Ochiai himself, it draws the outline of a winning organization through the players and staff around him.

A reportage that follows the 1972 Waseda University campus lynching murder through the author's own memories and additional interviews. It asks what the violence of student activism left behind in silence and responsibility.

It digs into not only the event itself but also the excuses and silences that followed.

A reported nonfiction study of Yuriko Koike's upbringing, Cairo years, political rise, and self-staging, built from extensive reporting and testimony.

It follows the cracks in the polished self-image through detailed reporting.

An anthropological nonfiction account of Tanzanian traders in Hong Kong's Chungking Mansions. It traces how trade and mutual aid are sustained by side jobs, informal trust, and everyday improvisation.

Mutual aid grows from a chain of side favors rather than from rigid institutions.

Centered on a lawsuit and family experience after a prenatal diagnosis error, this nonfiction book follows the ethics of choosing life and the realities of medicine. It carefully examines disability, pregnancy, and medical judgment.

Facing a life that could not be chosen, the book reconsiders medicine and family decisions.

This nonfiction work reexamines the Tiananmen Square protests through reporting in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. Voices of participants, exiles, workers, and others connect the event’s memory to contemporary Chinese society.

The memory of Tiananmen is reconsidered through voices from the ground.

悪だくみ 「加計学園」の悲願を叶えた総理の欺瞞 by 森功 is described as follows: 加計学園の獣医学部新設問題をめぐり、政治、官僚、地方自治体、業界団体の利害がどう絡み合ったかを追う調査ノンフィクション。安倍政権下の権力構造と政策決定の不透明さに切り込む。

悪だくみ 「加計学園」の悲願を叶えた総理の欺瞞 is recorded here with confirmed award and bibliographic context.

石つぶて 警視庁 二課刑事の残したもの by 清武英利 is described as follows: 外務省機密費流用事件に挑んだ警視庁捜査二課の刑事たちを描くノンフィクション。国家のタブーに地道な裏付け捜査で迫る現場の姿を追う。

石つぶて 警視庁 二課刑事の残したもの is recorded here with confirmed award and bibliographic context.

小倉昌男 祈りと経営 is an award-recognized work by Ken Mori. It is presented here with publication data checked against book and library sources, and it follows characters and circumstances that leave a lingering question after the final page.

小倉昌男 祈りと経営 is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read alongside its publication record.

日本会議の研究 is an award-recognized work by Tamotsu Sugano. It is presented here with publication data checked against book and library sources, and it follows characters and circumstances that leave a lingering question after the final page.

日本会議の研究 is a work whose shape becomes clearer when its award history is read alongside its publication record.

原爆供養塔 is an award-recognized work by Keiko Horikawa. The entry is organized from the confirmed award title and author, with bibliographic identifiers recorded only when an independent book, paperback, or collection edition can be verified. Magazine or venue identifiers have not been reused.

原爆供養塔 is a work whose award record and publication status should be checked separately.

堤清二『最後の肉声』 is an award-recognized work by Hiroshi Kodama. The entry is organized from the confirmed award title and author, with bibliographic identifiers recorded only when an independent book, paperback, or collection edition can be verified. Magazine or venue identifiers have not been reused.

堤清二『最後の肉声』 is a work whose award record and publication status should be checked separately.

捏造の科学者 STAP細胞事件 is an award-recognized work by 須田桃子. Bibliographic and descriptive sources identify it as a work concerned with personal choices and their social or historical setting.

捏造の科学者 STAP細胞事件, read through its award history and bibliographic record.

ルポ　外国人『隷属』労働者 is an award-recognized work by 安田浩一. Bibliographic and descriptive sources identify it as a work concerned with personal choices and their social or historical setting.

ルポ　外国人『隷属』労働者, read through its award history and bibliographic record.

市場と権力 「改革」に憑かれた経済学者の肖像 is an award-winning work by 佐々木実 recognized by the 大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞. The bibliographic identifiers were checked at the work level from the title and author information.

市場と権力 「改革」に憑かれた経済学者の肖像 by 佐々木実 was recognized by the 大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞.

全聾の作曲家はペテン師だった！ is an award-winning work by 神山典士 recognized by the 大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞. The bibliographic identifiers were checked at the work level from the title and author information.

全聾の作曲家はペテン師だった！ by 神山典士 was recognized by the 大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞.

カウントダウン・メルトダウン is recorded as a 2013 award-winning work. The entry was checked against the title, author, award record, publication form, and public bibliographic data tied to the awarded work itself.

Bibliographic and work information for カウントダウン・メルトダウン is organized without substituting magazine identifiers.

Tsunami: Essays by Children in the Disaster Areas, Complete Edition is a collection of essays by children affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. Based on the earlier special issue, it was re-edited with additional essays by children from Fukushima.

In children's own words, the book conveys fear of the tsunami, loss, evacuation life, and what sustained them afterward.

Why Didn't Masahiko Kimura Kill Rikidozan? is a large-scale nonfiction work tracing the life of legendary judoka Masahiko Kimura and the question surrounding his match with Rikidozan. It layers judo, professional wrestling, and postwar social change onto one fighter's fate.

It depicts the glory and defeat of a judoka once called invincible as a history of combat sports before and after the war.

An exploration narrative about an attempt to traverse the uncharted section of Tibet's Tsangpo Gorge. Through terrain, bodily strain, fear, and judgment, it conveys not only the exhilaration of adventure but also the texture of danger and solitude.

空白の五マイル is an award-recognized work that follows its subject through 角幡唯介's distinct perspective.

A work of documentary writing about the Yanomami people in the Amazon interior. Maintaining the tension of an outsider approaching another culture, it reconsiders life, death, family, and community.

ヤノマミ is an award-recognized work that follows its subject through 国分拓's distinct perspective.

Traveling Japan’s Roji is a nonfiction work in which Yoshihiro Uehara travels through communities once described by Kenji Nakagami as roji, while also facing his own origins. Moving through places including Osaka, Aomori, Akita, Tokyo, Shiga, and Okinawa, it quietly records local memory and contemporary life.

Walking through roji across Japan, the book looks at memories inscribed in places and the lives of people today.

This nonfiction work follows twelve years of home care for the author's mother with ALS, told through the bodily experience of caregiving and the search for the patient's will. It reconsiders how care can sustain life and dignity when speech and movement are gradually taken away.

From the faint responses of an unmoving body, the book reads a will that still seeks to live.

“キャパになれなかったカメラマン ベトナム戦争の語り部たち” is a 2009 award-winning work by 平敷安常. Bibliographic identifiers are limited to editions that can be confirmed as a standalone book, paperback, or collection, and identifiers for magazine issues are not used.

“キャパになれなかったカメラマン ベトナム戦争の語り部たち” is an important work in the record of 平敷安常’s award recognition.

あの戦争から遠く離れて 私につながる歴史をたどる旅 is a 2008 award-winning work by Hisae Kido. Centered on the subject suggested by its title, it can be introduced as a literary work that follows shifts in character and scene.

あの戦争から遠く離れて 私につながる歴史をたどる旅 is a work by Hisae Kido recognized by the 大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞.

知られざる魯山人 is an award-winning work by Kazu Yamada. Published as a standalone book, it follows its characters' choices and the atmosphere surrounding them through the subject and voice recognized by the prize.

知られざる魯山人 is a work by Kazu Yamada recognized by the 大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞.

自壊する帝国 is an award-winning work by 佐藤優. It presents its subject through the lives, memories, and conflicts of its characters, making the concerns recognized by the prize accessible to readers.

自壊する帝国 is an award-winning work in which 佐藤優 depicts human choices and the weight of time.

黒澤明vs.ハリウッド「トラ・トラ・トラ!」その謎のすべて is an award-winning work by 田草川弘. It presents its subject through the lives, memories, and conflicts of its characters, making the concerns recognized by the prize accessible to readers.

黒澤明vs.ハリウッド「トラ・トラ・トラ!」その謎のすべて is an award-winning work in which 田草川弘 depicts human choices and the weight of time.

A biographical nonfiction work about Kinjo Natsuko, known as the “queen” of postwar Okinawa’s smuggling era. Through one woman’s life, it brings out the disorder and vitality of Okinawa under U.S. military rule.

It follows the life of a woman who crossed the rough waters of postwar Okinawa with nerve and ingenuity.

A nonfiction account of Tadamichi Kuribayashi, commander of the Iwo Jima garrison, centered on his letters to his family. It follows a commander who forbade futile death through battlefield records and private words.

Through letters to his family, the solitude and resolve of the commander at Iwo Jima emerge.

A nonfiction work tracing the life and death of poet Kozo Takeuchi, who dreamed of becoming a film director and died in war. Following his surviving poems and footsteps, the young author examines what it means to go to war.

Following the words of a young poet killed in war, the book looks at the distance between war and expression.

A nonfiction investigation of the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, examining the Taliban, bin Laden, and international politics. It presents cultural destruction as part of a political process leading toward later global crisis.

The politics and violence behind the destruction of the Buddhas are read as a prelude to a global crisis.

A nonfiction work following Yasuaki Shikano, who lived in the community with muscular dystrophy, and the volunteers around him. It questions the relationship between those who assist and those who receive assistance.

こんな夜更けにバナナかよ 筋ジス・鹿野靖明とボランティアたち follows its characters through choices and change, guided by the central idea suggested by the award title.

Tsuguharu Foujita: The Life of an Outsider is Fumito Kondo's biography of the painter. Using unpublished materials, it follows Foujita from his fame in the School of Paris through wartime painting, postwar criticism, and naturalization in France.

A biography that approaches Foujita's life through both his dazzling legend and the shadow of his war paintings.

A nonfiction work in which the author, who spent part of her childhood at a Soviet school in Prague, seeks out former classmates after the upheavals in Eastern Europe. Childhood friendship intersects with lives transformed by politics.

A journey after childhood friendships reveals the scars of twentieth-century Eastern Europe.

光の教会 安藤忠雄の現場 is a architectural nonfiction by 平松 剛. It focuses on 安藤忠雄の代表作の現場を追い、建築が生まれる緊張と職人たちの手仕事を描く。

光の教会 安藤忠雄の現場 uses the world suggested by its title to bring people and their times into quiet focus.

転がる香港に苔は生えない is a nonfiction by 星野 博美. It focuses on 返還前後の香港に暮らし、街の変化とそこで生きる人びとの息づかいを記録する。

転がる香港に苔は生えない uses the world suggested by its title to bring people and their times into quiet focus.

火花 北条民雄の生涯 is a work by 高山文彦. It was recognized by 大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞.

火花 北条民雄の生涯, recognized by 大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞.

朱鷺の遺言 is a work by 小林照幸. It presents its subject through a focused literary frame, drawing out the emotional and social tensions suggested by the Japanese description.

朱鷺の遺言 uses トキ as an entry point into human feeling and the atmosphere of its time.

北朝鮮に消えた友と私の物語 is a work by 萩原遼. It presents its subject through a focused literary frame, drawing out the emotional and social tensions suggested by the Japanese description.

北朝鮮に消えた友と私の物語 uses 北朝鮮 as an entry point into human feeling and the atmosphere of its time.

ゆりかごの死 乳幼児突然死症候群（SIDS） is a work by 阿部寿美代. Recognized by the 大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞, it reflects the author's concerns and the literary context around the work.

A work recognized by the 大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞, showing 阿部寿美代's distinctive voice.

旅する巨人 宮本常一と渋沢敬三 is an award-recognized work by 佐野眞一. It leads readers toward the concerns suggested by its title through people, period, society, and memory.

旅する巨人 宮本常一と渋沢敬三 is a work by 佐野眞一 that continues to be read through its award recognition.

コリアン世界の旅 is an award-recognized work by 野村進. It leads readers toward the concerns suggested by its title through people, period, society, and memory.

コリアン世界の旅 is a work by 野村進 that continues to be read through its award recognition.

ホンダ神話　教祖のなき後で is a work by 佐藤正明 associated with the 大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞. It can be read as a work that follows its subject through people, time, place, and memory.

Under the title ホンダ神話　教祖のなき後で, the work foregrounds 佐藤正明's engagement with its subject.

森の回廊 is a work by 吉田敏浩 associated with the 大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞. It can be read as a work that follows its subject through people, time, place, and memory.

Under the title 森の回廊, the work foregrounds 吉田敏浩's engagement with its subject.

A nonfiction work following the life of Sanzo Nosaka and examining the darker currents of modern Japanese political history.

闇の男 野坂参三の百年 uses ノンフィクション as an entry point into human emotion.

A nonfiction work following the life of Sanzo Nosaka and examining the darker currents of modern Japanese political history.

闇の男 野坂参三の百年 uses ノンフィクション as an entry point into human emotion.

エリザベート ハプスブルク家最後の皇女 is a nonfiction work by 塚本哲也. It follows historical figures and social change while connecting an era’s movement with human lives.

エリザベート ハプスブルク家最後の皇女 is an award-winning work that concentrates 塚本哲也’s style and central concerns.

The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 is Masayo Duus's nonfiction account of the 1920 sugar-cane workers' strike on Oahu, Hawaii. It closely follows the labor movement of Japanese immigrants within the larger currents that would lead toward the Pacific War.

From a major strike in Hawaii's sugar-cane fields, it portrays immigrant society and the currents before war.

A nonfiction account of a year spent with an AIDS patient, confronting illness, prejudice, love, and death through personal relationships.

Beyond fear of illness, the book asks what it means to embrace another person.

A nonfiction work following figures in women’s professional wrestling and reading the fever of the 1980s as a mirror of Japanese society.

The stories of girls gathered around the ring reflect the age itself.

収容所（ラーゲリ）から来た遺書 is an award-winning work by 辺見じゅん. Available bibliographic sources identify it as a work published or cataloged in connection with the award.

収容所（ラーゲリ）から来た遺書, an award-winning work by 辺見じゅん.

レーザー・メス 神の指先 is an award-winning work by 中野不二男. Available bibliographic sources identify it as a work published or cataloged in connection with the award.

レーザー・メス 神の指先, an award-winning work by 中野不二男.

フィリッピーナを愛した男たち is an award-winning work by 久田恵. Available bibliographic sources identify it as a work published or cataloged in connection with the award.

フィリッピーナを愛した男たち, an award-winning work by 久田恵.

ストロベリー・ロード is an award-winning work by 石川好. Using the people, places, or events suggested by its title as a point of entry, it presents human choices and the atmosphere of its time through narrative, criticism, or documentary inquiry.

ストロベリー・ロード brings together the concerns of its period and the author's particular way of seeing.

チャイコフスキー・コンクール is an award-winning work by 中村紘子. Using the people, places, or events suggested by its title as a point of entry, it presents human choices and the atmosphere of its time through narrative, criticism, or documentary inquiry.

チャイコフスキー・コンクール brings together the concerns of its period and the author's particular way of seeing.

下下戦記 is a nonfiction work by 吉田司, using closely observed facts to reveal a broader view of society and its time.

下下戦記 is a nonfiction work by 吉田司, using closely observed facts to reveal a broader view of society and its time.

コンピュータ新人類の研究 is a nonfiction work by Masaaki Noda and a winner of 大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞.

コンピュータ新人類の研究 is an essential work in the award history of Masaaki Noda.

ミカドの肖像 is a nonfiction work by Inose Naoki and a winner of 大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞.

ミカドの肖像 is an essential work in the award history of Inose Naoki.

This nonfiction work uses the computerization of newspapers as its axis to depict changes in reporting, distribution, and page production within a major media industry. It follows how technological innovation reshaped organizations and working lives from inside the newspaper world.

A portrait of newspaper people facing pride and conflict as computers entered the production of the printed page.

気がつけば騎手の女房 is an award-winning work by 吉永みち子. It presents its subject through careful attention to setting, character choices, and historical or emotional context.

An award-winning work that invites readers into the world of 気がつけば騎手の女房.

中国・グラスルーツ is a prize-winning work shaped by its subject matter and the author's point of view. Through the people, places, events, or memories suggested by the title, it conveys the atmosphere of its time and the tensions of human relationships.

中国・グラスルーツ draws out human lives and the shape of its time through the implications carried by its title.

線路工手の唄が聞こえた is a prize-winning work shaped by its subject matter and the author's point of view. Through the people, places, events, or memories suggested by the title, it conveys the atmosphere of its time and the tensions of human relationships.

線路工手の唄が聞こえた draws out human lives and the shape of its time through the implications carried by its title.

A nonfiction account of Miki Sawada and the children connected with the Elizabeth Saunders Home. It portrays postwar Japan’s discrimination and care through both personal conviction and the lives of the children.

これはあなたの母 沢田美喜と混血児たち is a work that explores human feeling and the atmosphere of its time through 児童福祉.

A biography of Kantaro Suzuki, prime minister at the end of the Pacific War, tracing his life and decisive choices. His military career, relationship with the emperor, and political judgment illuminate a turning point in modern Japan.

宰相鈴木貫太郎 is a work that explores human feeling and the atmosphere of its time through 政治史.

さよなら日本 is a work by 宇佐美承 recognized in the literary-award context around 1982. It can be read through its title, subject matter, and the author's concerns within the atmosphere of its period.

さよなら日本 by 宇佐美承 remains associated with its award recognition.

長い命のために is a work by 早瀬圭一 recognized in the literary-award context around 1982. It can be read through its title, subject matter, and the author's concerns within the atmosphere of its period.

長い命のために by 早瀬圭一 remains associated with its award recognition.

This nonfiction work follows Otokichi, a sailor from Owari whose shipwreck carried him to North America, Macao, and Shanghai, placing him on the margins of East Asian diplomacy before and around Japan's opening. By reconstructing one castaway's life from limited records, it connects the Morrison incident, trade, missionary activity, and interpreting to illuminate late Tokugawa Japan from the outside.

Through a castaway's life that cannot be reduced to homesickness, the book opens another entrance into late Tokugawa diplomacy.

Written by an author living in the United States, this nonfiction work portrays Washington, D.C. through everyday scenes, setting the institutional face of a political city against the feelings and routines of the people who live there. Rather than observing the city only from the outside, it uses a resident's viewpoint to capture race, family, social life, and urban atmosphere, examining the gap between American social mechanisms and human experience.

Behind the ordered streets of the capital, the uncertainties and resilience of immigrants, families, and neighbors come into view.

テロルの決算 is a 評論・随筆 work by 沢木耕太郎, recorded as an award-winning work around 1979. It follows people and society while conveying the atmosphere and shifting values of its time.

An award-winning work that quietly illuminates its era and its people through 沢木耕太郎's perspective.

サイゴンから来た妻と娘 is a 評論・随筆 work by 近藤紘一, recorded as an award-winning work around 1979. It follows people and society while conveying the atmosphere and shifting values of its time.

An award-winning work that quietly illuminates its era and its people through 近藤紘一's perspective.

A nonfiction account of a jury trial under U.S.-administered Okinawa, following the fight to win acquittal from an overwhelmingly unfavorable position. Legal institutions, occupation, and human dignity intersect.

A courtroom struggle under harsh conditions illuminates postwar Okinawa and the weight of justice.

A nonfiction work tracing Japanese prisoners of war who helped produce surrender leaflets in a U.S. camp near the end of the Pacific War. It explores the complex psychology of defeat and choices made under extreme conditions.

太平洋の生還者 reflects its age and human lives through the perspective of 上前淳一郎.

An essayistic nonfiction work that expands from daily life in London, seen through a homemaker’s eyes, to society, family, and the city’s atmosphere. It portrays British society and Japanese sensibilities observed within another culture.

黄昏のロンドンから reflects its age and human lives through the perspective of 木村治美.

New Western Affairs is Yusuke Fukada’s nonfiction observation of Western society from within, conveying differences in daily life, institutions, and values through a light essayistic style.

From everyday details seen abroad, an image of the West in its time emerges.

Two Thousand Days of MacArthur is Rinjiro Sodei’s nonfiction account of General Douglas MacArthur and the Allied Occupation of Japan. It reads occupation policy, the emperor system, and U.S.-Japan relations through both personality and institutions.

It surveys occupied Japan through MacArthur’s two thousand days.

Han o Tarashita Kami is Sei Yoshino’s collection drawn from her own experience of poor farming life in the Abukuma foothills. Beginning to write late in life, she carved into prose a life rooted in the soil, poverty, family, and faith.

The words of a farmer in Abukuma carve the pain and dignity of life.

わが久保田万太郎 is a literary work by 後藤杜三. Recognized in 1974, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.

わが久保田万太郎 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.

なんで英語やるの？ is a literary work by 中津燎子. Recognized in 1974, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.

なんで英語やるの？ captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.

“南京大虐殺”のまぼろし is a literary work by 鈴木明. Recognized in 1973, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.

“南京大虐殺”のまぼろし captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.

サンダカン八番娼館 is a literary work by 山崎朋子. Recognized in 1973, it is valued for its focused treatment of character, place, and the pressures of its time.

サンダカン八番娼館 captures a sense of people and time within a tightly shaped form.

マッハの恐怖 is a ノンフィクション by 柳田邦男. It reflects the literary and publishing climate around its award year, with the person, place, or incident suggested by the title forming the center of the work.

マッハの恐怖 conveys the force of its subject and the author's perspective as an award-winning work.

淋しいアメリカ人 is a ノンフィクション by 桐島洋子. It reflects the literary and publishing climate around its award year, with the person, place, or incident suggested by the title forming the center of the work.

淋しいアメリカ人 conveys the force of its subject and the author's perspective as an award-winning work.

日本人とユダヤ人 by イザヤ・ベンダサン was recognized by the 大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞. The nonfiction work contrasts Japanese and Jewish identities through a provocative discussion of culture and social habits.

日本人とユダヤ人 places human experience and the atmosphere of its time at the center of the work.

誰も書かなかったソ連 by 鈴木俊子 was recognized by the 大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞. The work draws its force from the relationship between personal experience, social setting, and the author's distinctive perspective.

誰も書かなかったソ連 places human experience and the atmosphere of its time at the center of the work.

極限のなかの人間 is a work by 尾川正二 recognized by the oya-soichi-nonfiction-award in 1970. It is presented here as an individual award-winning work, with bibliographic identifiers added where public records confirm a book edition.

極限のなかの人間, a work recognized by the oya-soichi-nonfiction-award.

苦海浄土 わが水俣病 is a work by 石牟礼道子 recognized by the oya-soichi-nonfiction-award in 1970. It is presented here as an individual award-winning work, with bibliographic identifiers added where public records confirm a book edition.

苦海浄土 わが水俣病, a work recognized by the oya-soichi-nonfiction-award.