Shogakukan Nonfiction Grand Prize しょうがくかんノンフィクションたいしょう
Edition 13 (2006)
Winners
3 peopleA nonfiction work following a couple's court battle after losing a baby born after a traffic accident during pregnancy. It confronts the difficult question of whether a fetus is legally a person, examining criminal law, damages, and social conflict around abortion.
From the death of a child who lived eleven hours, the book steps into the question of fetal rights.
A nonfiction work in which opera singer Chon Wolson traces her life and family history, portraying a life that crosses borders through song and a family shaped by the histories of Korea and Japan.
Song crosses the strait, awakening family memory and historical pain.
A nonfiction account of the discovery and development of statins, centered on Akira Endo’s research life and the scientific and corporate struggles behind a medicine that changed cardiovascular treatment.
A search that began with a fungus led to a medicine that changed global healthcare.