Period：2020/5/25 〜 2020/7/27 Archives GRAND Prize Sennheiser MOMENTUM True Wireless Premium Earbuds “Thanks for Everything, Lies Included” KOMATSUZAKI Kaoru age: 28 Saitama Prefecture, Tokorozawa City “I’m going to buy a bento.” My Father’s words hovered in the ICU clean room where I had been isolated. I was nine, diagnosed with leukemia, and was always feeling sorry for my Father. My therapy was a cycle of recurrent pain. The worst was the bone marrow tests. They’d jam a fat needle into my back like it was busting through a wall. And each time I would howl, that’s when my Father would head out to pick up another box lunch. Left alone…

Period：2019/5/16〜7/29 Archives Grand Prize Sennheiser’s MOMENTUM True Wireless premium earbuds  Papa’s Angle Yukari MARUYAMA Age: 33 Shizuoka Prefecture, Fuji City “Papa, you should take a picture….” Rugged pink cherry blossoms. A dark blue ocean. Red and yellow leaves. Silver-white snow banks. No matter how beautiful a background I put behind me or how much I coaxed him, my father would just stand there with his single lens reflex hanging on his neck and scratch the side of his head. “I’m a landscape photographer. I don’t do people.” “I’m the only daughter you’ve got, but you still think the scenery is more important!!” I used to say. Ever since I was a little…

Period：2018 March 28 – July 23 Jump to the previous essay contest results GRAND Prize SHOULDER TO SHOULDER Oi Kenichi | age: 47 yr. | Tokyo In my second year of junior high, I had a fight with one of my classmates and got in trouble because I hurt him. At the time, I was in the middle of a relapse into adolescent revolt. But, since I was also defending some friends this classmate had bullied, I thought I had done the right thing and didn’t have any second thoughts about it. As it was, I wasn’t taken to the teachers room to discuss how the incident occurred. I was…

開催・応募期間：2018年3月28日〜7月23日 2017年のエッセイコンテスト受賞作品はこちら2016年以前のエッセイコンテスト受賞作品はこちら GRAND Prize SHOULDER TO SHOULDER　Oi Kenichi　Age: 47　Tokyo In my second year of junior high, I had a fight with one of my classmates and got in trouble because I hurt him. At the time, I was in the middle of a relapse into adolescent revolt. But, since I was also defending some friends this classmate had bullied, I thought I had done the right thing and didn’t have any second thoughts about it. As it was, I wasn’t taken to the teachers room to discuss how the incident occurred. I was immediately given sole blame for the injury. When I kicked up a storm about how he’d bullied…