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Oya Soichi Nonfiction Award おおやそういちノンフィクションしょう

Edition 43 (2012)

Nonfiction

Winners

2 people
Ken Mori もり けん award

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.

223 pages
Great East Japan Earthquaketsunamichildrenessaystestimony
Toshiya Masuda ますだ としや award

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.

701 pages
judoprofessional wrestlingbiographypostwar Japancombat sports history