Yamamoto Shugoro Award やまもとしゅうごろうしょう
Edition 31 (2018)
Winners
5 peopleA two-volume novel linking Cambodia under the Pol Pot regime with a near future, treating violence, intelligence, games, and politics on a broad scale. It follows people tossed about by systems and chance through a carefully built structure.
Game theory and historical violence ask what human freedom can mean.
A police mystery about an officer transferred to a rural police box who investigates a colleague's disappearance and the secrets hidden in the town. It depicts the weight of a closed local community and tensions within the police organization.
In a closed town, the shadow of a missing officer draws out another case.
A linked novel in which a god charged with matchmaking becomes involved in human love and lives. Beneath its light tone lies a warm gaze toward human weakness and longing.
Fateful ties, almost like divine mischief, gradually move people's lives.
A full-length entry in a police action series built around special-unit equipment and international politics. Large-scale terrorism, internal friction, and personal histories intertwine as the series enters a new phase.
An investigation involving powered police armor expands into global politics and the shadows of the police organization.
A novel about Yuko, raised by parents not all related by blood, that explores forms of family and love passed from one person to another. It sees a complex family background not as tragedy but as a chain of warm relationships.
The baton of affection is quietly passed from parent to child and from person to person.