Winners

• 1st (1980) Taiyō-fu Kouten (Solar Wind Node) by Akira Hori
  Akira Hori
  Akira Hori is a Japanese science fiction writer. He has been involved in science fiction since high school and has a degree from Osaka University in engineering. He won the first Nihon SF Taisho Award in 1980 and has also won the Seiun Award.-External links:**...
  
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• 2nd (1981) Kirikiri-Jin
  Kirikirijin
  Kirikirijin 吉里吉里人 is Inoue Hisashi's major satirical novel, challenges the political, cultural and linguistic authority of Tokyo, by depicting the political separation for the Kirikiri people from the rest of Japan...
  
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• 3rd (1982) Saigo no Teki (The Last Enemy) by Masaki Yamada
  Masaki Yamada
  Masaki Yamada is a Japanese science fiction author. He has won the Nihon SF Taisho Award, the Seiun Award three times, and an award for mystery fiction. His first story was in 1974. His novel Aphrodite was translated into English in 2004...
  
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• 4th (1983) Dōmu by Katsuhiro Ōtomo
  Katsuhiro Otomo
  is a Japanese comic book creator, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation. Otomo has also directed several live-action films, such as the 2006 feature film adaptation of the manga Mushishi.-Biography:Katsuhiro Otomo was...
  
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• 5th (1984) Genshi Gari (Fancy-Poem Hunting) by Chiaki Kawamata
  Chiaki Kawamata
  is a Japanese science fiction writer and critic. Chiaki Kawamata has won both the Seiun Award and the Nihon SF Taisho Award. Chaki Kawamata is also noted for the manga Emblem of Roto.-References:...
  
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• 6th (1985) Shuto Shōshitsu (Capital City Disappeared) by Sakyō Komatsu
  Sakyo Komatsu
  was a Japanese science fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the most well known and highly regarded science fiction writers in Japan.-Early life:...
  
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• 7th (1986) Warai Uchū no Tabi Geinin (Jongleur in Laughing Cosmos) by Musashi Kambe.
• 8th (1987) Teito Monogatari (Empire Capital Saga) by Hiroshi Aramata
  Hiroshi Aramata
  is a Japanese author, translator, and screenplay writer, as well as a specialist in natural history and cartography.His most popular novel was Teito Monogatari , which has sold over 3.5 million copies in Japan alone. He also wrote Alexander Senki, a novel which eventually evolved into the anime...
  
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• 9th (1988)
  • Misaki Ichiro no Teikō (Registance of Misaki Ichiro) by Ryō Hanmura
    Ryo Hanmura
    Ryō Hanmura was a Japanese science fiction, fantasy, and horror author. His name is alternatively transliterated as Ryo Hammura. He won the Naoki Prize for his 1975 novel Amayadori...
    
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  • Kaidanji:Oshikawa Shunrō (Devil of a fellow: Oshikawa Shunrō) by Jun'ya Yokota and Shingo Aizu.
• 10th (1989) Jōgen no Tsuki wo Taberu Shishi (The Lion Eats Increscent Moon) by Baku Yumemakura
  Baku Yumemakura
  is a Japanese science fiction and adventure writer. He is best known for writing Jōgen no Tsuki wo Taberu Shishi , which won both the Seiun Award and the Nihon SF Taisho Award...
  
  
  • Special Award for Osamu Tezuka
    Osamu Tezuka
    was a Japanese cartoonist, manga artist, animator, producer, activist and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion and Black Jack...
    
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• 11th (1990) Ad Bird by Makoto Shiina.
• 12th (1991) Salamander Semmetsu (Salamander Omniside) by Shinji Kajio
  Shinji Kajio
  is an award winning Japanese author of science fiction and fantasy. The film Yomigaeri is based on a novel by him and he also co-wrote the manga series with Kenji Tsuruta , which was serialized in Monthly Comic Ryu. The manga is based on his short story of the same title, which became the...
  
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  • Special Award for Fujio Ishihara.
• 13th (1992) Asa no Gaspard (Gaspard of the Morning) by Yasutaka Tsutsui
  Yasutaka Tsutsui
  is a Japanese novelist, science fiction author, and actor. Along with Shinichi Hoshi and Sakyo Komatsu, he is one of the most famous science fiction writers in Japan. His Yumenokizaka bunkiten won the Tanizaki Prize in 1987. He has also won the 1981 Izumi Kyoka award, the 1989 Kawabata Yasunari...
  
  
• 14th (1993) Venus City by Gorō Masaki
  • Special Award for Hisashi Kuroma.
• 15th (1994)
  • Sensō wo Enjita Kamigamitachi (Gods Who Played War) by Mariko Ōhara
    Mariko Ohara
    is a Japanese science fiction writer. In her teens, she wrote Kirk/Spock fan fiction. She graduated from Seisin University and her writing career began in 1980....
    
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  • Joseijō Muishiki by Mari Kotani
    Mari Kotani
    is a Japanese science fiction critic, best known as the author of Evangelion as the Immaculate Virgin and of *Joseijou muishiki: techno-gynesis josei SF-ron josetsu. Tokyo: Keiso shobo, 1994...
    
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• 16th (1995) Kototsubo (Wordpot) by Chohei Kanbayashi
  Chohei Kanbayashi
  is a Japanese science fiction writer.Born in Niigata, Kambayashi graduated Nagaoka National College of Technology. He debuted in 1979 with the short story "Dance with a Fox", which was an honorable mention of the 5th Hayakawa SF Contest. He quickly became fan favorite, and during 1980s and 1990s,...
  
  
  • Special Award to Masahiro Noda.
• 17th (1996) Gamera 2 directed by Shūsuke Kaneko
  Shusuke Kaneko
  is a Japanese filmmaker and screenwriter.-Career:Shūsuke Kaneko began his career in film with Nikkatsu's Roman Porno film series, in which he served as assistant director to Kōyū Ohara. The series also gave Kaneko his directorial debut with writer Kōichirō Uno's, Kōichirō Uno's Wet and Swinging ,...
  
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• 18th (1997)
  • Gamōtei Jiken by Miyuki Miyabe
    Miyuki Miyabe
    Miyuki Miyabe is a popular contemporary Japanese author active in a number of genres that include science fiction, mystery fiction, historical fiction, social commentary, and juvenile fiction...
    
    
  • Shinseiki Evangelion by Hideaki Anno
    Hideaki Anno
    is a Japanese animation and film director. Anno is best known for his work on the popular anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. His style has come to be defined by the touches of postmodernism that he injects into his work, as well as the thorough portrayal of characters' thoughts and emotions,...
    
    
• 19th (1998) Brain Valley by Hideaki Sena
  Hideaki Sena
  is a Japanese pharmacologist and novelist. Sena was a graduate student at Tohoku University when he wrote his prizewinning debut novel, Parasite Eve. The novel was adapted into a film and a popular horror role-playing game by Square. He is also the author of Brain Valley, for which he won the Nihon...
  
  
  • Special Awards to:
    • Shinichi Hoshi
      Shinichi Hoshi
      Shinichi Hoshi was a Japanese novelist and science fiction writer. He is best known for his "short-short" science fiction stories, often no more than three or four pages in length, of which he wrote over 1000...
      
      
    • NHK
      NHK
      NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....
      
       Ningen daigaku "Uchū o kūsō shitekita hitobito" by Masahiro Noda
    • Igyō Collection, edited by Masahiko Inoue
• 20th (1999) Chigurisu to Yūfuratesu by Motoko Arai
  Motoko Arai
  Motoko Arai is a Japanese science fiction and fantasy writer. Her first novel received an award in 1977 when she was in high school. In 1981 and 1982 she received the Seiun Award for short fiction. She graduated from Rikkyo University in 1983...
  
  
  • Special Award to Ryū Mitsuse
    Ryu Mitsuse
    is a Japanese science fiction writer. In the West he might be best known for manga-related works and the story The Sunset, 2217 A.D. which appeared in Frederik Pohl's Best Science Fiction for 1972.- Biography :...
    
    
• 21st (2000) Nihon SF Ronsōshi by Takayuki Tatsumi
  Takayuki Tatsumi
  Takayuki Tatsumi is a Japanese scholar. He is a Professor at Keio University, where he has taught literary theory and American literature since 1989.- External links :* at Keio University* at Flickr...
  
  
• 22nd (2001) Kamekun by Yūsaku Kitano
• 23rd (2002)
  • Arabia no yoru no shuzoku by Hideo Furukawa
  • Kugutsukō by Osamu Makino
• 24th (2003) Marduk Scramble by Tō Ubukata
• 25th (2004) Innocence by Mamoru Oshii
  Mamoru Oshii
  Mamoru Oshii is a Japanese filmmaker, television director, and writer. Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of popular anime, including Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer, Ghost in the Shell, and Patlabor 2...
  
  
  • Special Award to Tetsu Yano
    Tetsu Yano
    Tetsu Yano was a Japanese science fiction translator and writer. He began to introduce to Japanese readers the works of US science fiction writers in the late 1940s. He was the first Japanese writer of the genre to visit the United States, in 1953...
    
    
• 26th (2005) Katadorareta chikara by Hirotaka Tobi
• 27th (2006) Barbara Ikai
  Barbara Ikai
  is a science fiction manga by Moto Hagio. It is set in a near-future Japan, and begins with a girl, Jyujo Aoba, who has been in a coma since she was nine years old, who was discovered next to her parents' bodies, with their hearts inside her stomach...
  
  (Otherworld Barbara) by Moto Hagio
  Moto Hagio
  is a manga artist born on May 12, 1949 in Ōmuta, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, though she currently lives in Saitama Prefecture. She is considered a "founding mother" of modern shōjo manga, especially shōnen-ai. She is also a member of the Year 24 Group...
  
  
• 28th (2007) Hoshi Shinichi 1001wa wo tsukutta hito by Hazuki Saisho
• 29th (2008)
  • Shinsekai yori by Yusuke Kishi
    Yusuke Kishi
    is a Japanese author. He graduated from Kyoto University with a degree in Economics. After working for a life insurance company for several years, Kishi started his writing career as a freelancer. He has twice won the Japan Horror Association Award, and boasts bestselling status in Japan with...
    
    
  • Denno Coil
    Denno Coil
    , Coil — A Circle of Children, is a Japanese science fiction anime television series depicting a near future where semi-immersive augmented reality technology has just begun to enter the mainstream. The series takes place in the fictional city of Daikoku, a hotbed of AR development with an...
    
    by Mitsuo Iso
    Mitsuo Iso
    Mitsuo Iso is a Japanese key animator, designer, anime screenwriter and director.His work mainly includes key animation starting in the late 1980s. Iso is known for his offbeat key animation in the prologue of Gundam 0080, large portions of Asuka's battle in The End of Evangelion and the first...
    
    
  • Special Award to Masahiro Noda
• 30th (2009) Harmony by Keikaku Itō
  • Special Award to Guin Saga
    Guin Saga
    is the title of a best-selling heroic fantasy novel series by the Japanese author Kaoru Kurimoto, in continuous publication since 1979. A record 100 volumes were originally planned, but the final total stands at 130 volumes, the last four published posthumously, with 21 side-story novels...
    
    by Kaoru Kurimoto
    Kaoru Kurimoto
    was the pen name of , an award-winning Japanese novelist. Imaoka also used the pen name to write criticism. She was known for her record-breaking 126-volume Guin Saga series, which has been translated into English, German, French, Italian and Russian...
    
    
• 31st (2010)
  • Nihon SF Seishinshi by Yasuo Nagayama
  • Pengin Haiwei (Penguin Highway) by Tomihiko Morimi
  • Special Award to Takumi Shibano
    Takumi Shibano
    was a Japanese science-fiction translator and author. He was a major figure in fandom in Japan and contributed to establishing the Japanese science fiction genre....
    
     and Hisashi Asakura

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