Oya Soichi Nonfiction Award おおやそういちノンフィクションしょう
Edition 53 (2022)
Winners
2 peopleA 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.