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 26 (2019)
NonfictionLiterary prize
Winners
1 peopleThis nonfiction work follows a family in Minamisoma, Fukushima, confronted by both the tsunami and the nuclear accident. Through the intimate clue of family photographs, it records loss, the continuing search for the missing, and the passing on of memory beyond the frame of ordinary disaster reporting.
From a single family photograph, memories of tsunami damage overshadowed by the nuclear accident begin to surface.
370 pages
Great East Japan EarthquakeFukushima nuclear accidenttsunami damagefamily memoryloss and search