Nihon SF Taisho Award
The Nihon SF Taishō Award is a Japanese science fiction award. It has been compared to the Nebula Award as it is given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan or SFWJ. The Grand Prize is selected from not only Science Fiction novels, but also various SF movies, animations, and manga.
Special Awards are awarded to the works that is considered to be special by the juries. Since 2011, Special Services Award or Award of Merit is presented to the deceased person.
Winners
- 1st Taiyōfū Kōten by Akira Hori
- 2nd Kirikiri-Jin by Hisashi Inoue
- 3rd Saigo no Teki by Masaki Yamada
- 4th ' by Katsuhiro Ōtomo
- 5th Genshi Gari by Chiaki Kawamata
- 6th Shuto Shōshitsu by Sakyō Komatsu
- 7th Warai Uchū no Tabi Geinin by Musashi Kanbe
- 8th Teito Monogatari by Hiroshi Aramata
- 9th
- * Misaki Ichiro no Teikō by Ryō Hanmura
- * Kaidanji: Oshikawa Shunrō by Jun'ya Yokota and Shingo Aizu
- 10th Jōgen no Tsuki wo Taberu Shishi by Baku Yumemakura
- *Special Award for Osamu Tezuka
- 11th Ad Bird by Makoto Shiina
- 12th Salamander Senmetsu by Shinji Kajio
- *Special Award for Fujio Ishihara
- 13th Asa no Gaspard by Yasutaka Tsutsui
- 14th Venus City by Gorō Masaki
- *Special Award for Hisashi Kuroma
- 15th
- * Sensō wo Enjita Kamigamitachi by Mariko Ōhara
- * Joseijō Muishiki by Mari Kotani
- 16th Kototsubo by Chohei Kanbayashi
- *Special Award to Masahiro Noda
- 17th ' directed by Shūsuke Kaneko
- 18th
- * Gamōtei Jiken by Miyuki Miyabe
- * Shinseiki Evangelion by Hideaki Anno
- 19th Brain Valley by Hideaki Sena
- * Special Awards to:
- **Shinichi Hoshi
- **NHK Ningen Daigaku "Uchū o Kūsō Shitekita Hitobito" by Masahiro Noda
- **Igyō Collection, edited by Masahiko Inoue
- 20th Tigris to Euphrates by Motoko Arai
- *Special Award to Ryū Mitsuse
- 21st Nihon SF Ronsōshi by Takayuki Tatsumi
- 22nd Kamekun by Yūsaku Kitano
- 23rd
- * Arabia no Yoru no Shuzoku by Hideo Furukawa
- * Kugutsukō by Osamu Makino
- 24th Marduk Scramble by Tō Ubukata
- 25th by Mamoru Oshii
- *Special Award to Tetsu Yano
- 26th Katadorareta Chikara by Hirotaka Tobi
- 27th Barbara Ikai by Moto Hagio
- 28th Hoshi Shinichi 1001Wa o Tsukutta Hito by Hazuki Saisho
- 29th
- * Shinsekai Yori by Yusuke Kishi
- * Denno Coil by Mitsuo Iso
- *Special Award to Masahiro Noda
- 30th Harmony by Keikaku Itō
- * Special Award to Guin Saga by Kaoru Kurimoto
- 31st
- * Nihon SF Seishinshi by Yasuo Nagayama
- * Penguin Highway by Tomihiko Morimi
- * Special Award to Takumi Shibano and Hisashi Asakura
- 32nd
- * Karyū no Miya by Sayuri Ueda
- * Special Award to Kindai Nihon Kisō Shōsetsushi: Meiji Hen by Jun'ya Yokota
- * Special Services Award to Sakyo Komatsu
- 33rd
- * Kiryū Keisatsu: Jibaku Jōkō by Ryōe Tsukimura
- * Banjō no Yoru by Yūsuke Miyauchi
- * Special Award to Shisha no Teikoku by Keikaku Itō and Toh Enjoe
- 34th
- * Kaikin no To by Dempow Torishima
- * Special Awards to:
- ** NOVA Original anthology series, edited by Nozomi Ohmori
- ** Johannesburg no Tenshi Tachi by Yūsuke Miyauchi
- 35th
- * Orbital Cloud by Taiyō Fujii
- * My Humanity by Satoshi Hase
- * Award of Merit to Kazumasa Hirai
- 36th
- * Columbia Zero by Kōshū Tani
- * Toppen by Hiroyuki Morioka
- * Special Award to Gessekai Shōsetsu by Osamu Makino
- * Award of Merit to Noriyoshi Ohrai
- 37th
- * WOMBS by
- * Special Award to Shin Godzilla directed by Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi
- 38th
- * Game no Ōkoku by Satoshi Ogawa
- * Jisei no Yume by Hirotaka Tobi
- * Award of Merit to Kōichi Yamano
- 39th
- * Tobu Kujaku by
- * Mojika by Toh EnJoe
- * Award of Merit to Jun'ya Yokota
- 40th
- * Tenmei no Shirube by Issui Ogawa
- * Yadokari no Hoshi by Dempow Torishima
- * Special Award to the Best Japanese SF series, edited by Nozomi Ohmori and Sanzō Kusaka
- * Award of Merit to Hideo Azuma and Taku Mayumura
- * SFWJ President Award to and Takashi Hoshi