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Shincho Document Award しんちょうドキュメントしょう

Edition 18 (2019)

NonfictionDocumentary writing

Winners

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Kaori Kawai かわい かおり award

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.

248 pages
nonfictionprenatal diagnosisdisabilityfamilybioethics