"Wangan Street" is an honorable mention by Yukihiko Yamizu for the Waseda Literature Newcomer Award. Set around the urban waterfront, it appears to capture the atmosphere of its time and youthful perception through the language of the street.

Onto the waterfront street flow the city's heat and loneliness.

"Ningen Kokaku" is an honorable mention by Aya Tanaka for the Waseda Literature Newcomer Award. Its title evokes the human being as someone addressed, and the relation between language and subjectivity.

Within the act of address, the outline of a human being begins to emerge.