Author Sao Ichikawa rode to the podium on an electric-powered wheelchair to receive the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for literature. “I am extremely happy that I can stand here,” the 43-year ...

Aki Asahina, a part-time doctor who won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for literature on July 17, confessed that he never read novels and never intended to become a writer. Nearly 10 years ago ...

Themes of the work have been broadly examined, with scholar Makoto Ueda saying that, “For Akutagawa the dilemma was insoluble: if the artist chooses to place his art ahead of his life ...