A reportage book set in Congo in the 1970s and 1980s, tracing Japanese corporate expansion and the history of the children left behind in its shadow.

It uncovers memories left behind in the shadow of economic growth.

A detailed sports nonfiction book that follows Ochiai Hiromitsu's years as manager through the eyes of a beat reporter.

It portrays a manager who changed players with few words and built a winning organization.

A nonfiction work tracing the birth of Japan's first private children's hospice and the people who support its operation.

A record of a place that supports time for children to live as children, away from treatment.

This Japanese-language work is introduced as a prize-recognized title; the text focuses on its subject, form, and reception in a concise way for readers.

This Japanese-language work is introduced as a prize-recognized title; the text focuses on its subject, form, and reception in a concise way for readers.

A nonfiction book by Kawai Kaori. Beginning with a lawsuit over a mistaken prenatal diagnosis, it investigates childbirth, disability, abortion, and family choice while continually asking what it means to choose life.

From a mistaken prenatal diagnosis, it looks at a life that could not be chosen and a society that tries to choose.

北朝鮮 核の資金源：「国連捜査」秘録 by 古川勝久 is introduced here as the award-recognized work. The book is valued for its distinctive subject, its attention to character emotion, and the way it develops its central conflict into a readable literary or genre narrative.

A concise introduction to 北朝鮮 核の資金源：「国連捜査」秘録, a work shaped by its subject and emotional stakes.

子どもたちの階級闘争：ブロークン・ブリテンの無料託児所から is an award-winning work by ブレイディみかこ. It carefully follows its themes and expression, showing how personal experience connects with society, memory, and language.

子どもたちの階級闘争：ブロークン・ブリテンの無料託児所から looks closely at the relationship between people and the world with the density expected of an award-winning work.

原節子の真実 by 石井妙子 is an award-recognized work. The entry focuses on the published work, its author, and the context in which it was selected.

A concise profile of 石井妙子's 原節子の真実 through its award record.

ブンヤ暮らし三十六年：回想の朝日新聞 is a work by 永栄潔受賞・候補作品。賞の記録で作品名は確認できるが、Amazon JP、NDL OPAC、出版社公式で同名の単行本・文庫・短編集として確実に対応する書誌を確認できなかったため、雑誌号や応募原稿の識別子は採用しない。

Verified information on ブンヤ暮らし三十六年：回想の朝日新聞 is organized as prize-work data.

An investigative nonfiction work on a series of child abduction and murder cases in northern Kanto, examining wrongful conviction, policing, and journalistic responsibility.

殺人犯はそこにいる：隠蔽された北関東連続幼女誘拐殺人事件 is a work by 清水潔 whose profile can be outlined through award records and bibliographic checks.

A nonfiction work that traces Heizo Takenaka's career while examining the forces unleashed by structural and regulatory reform in Japan. It portrays modern history at the intersection of politics, bureaucracy, academia, and finance.

Long-form reporting reveals the structures of power that operated behind the language of reform.

This work is introduced as a literary award-winning title. It focuses on its central motif and characters while reflecting the genre and period in which it appeared.

木村政彦はなぜ力道山を殺さなかったのか invites readers into its world through its central motif and award-winning premise.

裁かれた命：死刑囚から届いた手紙 is a work by 堀川惠子. Available descriptions point to a readable structure and a clearly defined premise.

裁かれた命：死刑囚から届いた手紙 offers a clear entry point into the qualities recognized by the award.

A nonfiction work by a pediatrician with cerebral palsy, narrating childhood rehabilitation as bodily memory. It reexamines the relationship between those who provide care and those who receive it from deep within bodily sensation.

From bodily memories carved into nights of rehabilitation, the relationships of care are reconsidered.

A nonfiction work in which Kaoru Hasuike visits South Korea after returning to Japan and reexamines his years in North Korea, the history of the Korean Peninsula, and his own language and work. Travel writing overlaps with his new start as a translator.

Through a journey after his return, the author faces stolen time and newly recovered language.

少女売買：インドに売られたネパールの少女たち is nonfiction that patiently approaches its subject and connects individual experience with social structures. It draws the distortions of its time from concrete scenes.

少女売買：インドに売られたネパールの少女たち is nonfiction that patiently approaches its subject and connects individual experience with social structures.

A nonfiction account investigating a Fukuoka case in which a teacher was accused of abusing and discriminating against a pupil. It traces how one accusation expanded into social condemnation through testimony and court proceedings.

It carefully follows how an accusation spread and whom it drove into a corner.

自壊する帝国 is a work by 佐藤 優. It is presented here as an award-recognized work, with publication identifiers checked against book sources where available.

自壊する帝国, a work by 佐藤 優.

A nonfiction work tracing the control structure of a major media corporation centered on Fuji Television and the rise and fall of the Shikanai family. It carefully reports the entanglement of corporations, politics, capital, and personal networks.

Succession and seizure of power around a television network illuminate the history of Japanese media.

A nonfiction account by a former lawmaker sentenced to prison in a secretary-salary fraud case, reflecting on prison life and the case itself. Through details of incarceration, it portrays both institutions and people.

A record that reexamines institutions and the self from inside prison.

A nonfiction work examining cases in which perpetrators of serious crimes avoid or receive reduced punishment because of insanity or diminished capacity. It sharply questions the gaps among justice, psychiatry, and victims' feelings.

It presses the boundary between law and responsibility around killings that are not fully judged.

This historical nonfiction work reads the household accounts of the Inoyama family, financial officers of the Kaga domain, to reconstruct samurai income, spending, debts, and ceremonial expenses. It reconsiders the late Edo and Restoration eras through domestic economics rather than grand political events.

From a small household ledger, the social world of the late Edo period and the daily life of samurai come into view.

A nonfiction work tracing how an American PR firm shaped international opinion around the Bosnian War. It depicts the arena of information manipulation that can influence the outcome of war.

Not only bullets, but words and images were moving the war.