The 158th Akutagawa Prize and Naoki Prize Announced
The 158th Akutagawa Prize winner Chisako Wakatake speaks during a press conference at the Imperial Hotel on January 16, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan. Chisako Wakatake won the 158th Akutagawa Prize for her book ''Ora orade hitori egumo (I will, I will go away all by myself)'', along with Yuka Ishi who won the Prize for ''Hyaku-nen doro (One hundred year mud)''. Yoshinobu Kadoi received the 158th Naoki Prize for his book ''Ginga tetsudo no chichi (The father of Galactic Railway).'' The two literary prizes were established in 1935 and are awarded semi-annually to the best serious story published in a newspaper or magazine by a new author. (Photo by Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO)