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 ...

“I started writing novels one year before my debut story (was published) two years ago,” Ando tells The Japan Times from the offices of Kawade Shobo Shinsha, publisher of his Akutagawa Prize-w ...