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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 50 (2019)

Nonfiction

Winners

2 people
Kaori Kawai かわい かおり award

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.

248 pages
prenatal diagnosismedical ethicsdisabilityfamily
Minetoshi Yasuda やすだ みねとし award

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.

304 pages
Tiananmen SquareChinese societyreported nonfictionmemory and politics