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Shincho Document Award しんちょうドキュメントしょう

Edition 3 (2004)

NonfictionDocumentary writing

Winners

2 people
Joji Yamamoto やまもと じょうじ award

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.

391 pages
nonfictionprisonpoliticiancaseinstitution
Takashi Higaki ひがき たかし award

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.

318 pages
nonfictionjusticepsychiatric evaluationcrimeresponsibility