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 Contribution Award 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 Dōmu by Katsuhiro Ōtomo
- 5th Genshi Gari by Chiaki Kawamata
- 6th Tokyo Blackout 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
- 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
- 15th
- * Sensō wo Enjita Kamigamitachi by Mariko Ōhara
- * Joseijō Muishiki by Mari Kotani
- 16th Kototsubo by Chohei Kanbayashi
- *Special Award to
- 17th Gamera 2: Attack of Legion directed by Shūsuke Kaneko
- 18th
- * Gamōtei Jiken by Miyuki Miyabe
- * Neon Genesis Evangelion by Hideaki Anno
- 19th Brain Valley by Hideaki Sena
- * Special Awards to:
- **Shinichi Hoshi
- **NHK Ningen Daigaku "Uchū o Kūsō Shitekita Hitobito" by
- **Igyō Collection, edited by
- 20th Tigris to Euphrates by Motoko Arai
- *Special Award to Ryū Mitsuse
- 21st Nihon SF Ronsōshi by Takayuki Tatsumi
- 22nd Kamekun by
- 23rd
- * Arabia no Yoru no Shuzoku by
- * Kugutsukō by
- 24th Mardock Scramble by Tō Ubukata
- 25th Innocence by Mamoru Oshii
- *Special Award to Tetsu Yano
- 26th Katadorareta Chikara by Hirotaka Tobi
- 27th Otherworld Barbara by Moto Hagio
- 28th Hoshi Shinichi 1001Wa o Tsukutta Hito by
- 29th
- * From the New World by Yusuke Kishi
- * Den-noh Coil by Mitsuo Iso
- *Special Award to
- 30th Harmony by Keikaku Itō
- * Special Award to Guin Saga by Kaoru Kurimoto
- 31st
- * Nihon SF Seishinshi by
- * Penguin Highway by Tomihiko Morimi
- * Special Award to Takumi Shibano and
- 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
- * Banjō no Yoru by
- * 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
- ** Johannesburg no Tenshi Tachi by
- 35th
- * Orbital Cloud by Taiyō Fujii
- * My Humanity by
- * Contribution Award to Kazumasa Hirai
- 36th
- * Columbia Zero by Kōshū Tani
- * Toppen by Hiroyuki Morioka
- * Special Award to Gessekai Shōsetsu by
- * Contribution Award to Noriyoshi Ohrai
- 37th
- * Wombs by Yumiko Shirai
- * Special Award to Shin Godzilla directed by Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi
- 38th
- * Game no Ōkoku by
- * Jisei no Yume by Hirotaka Tobi
- * Contribution Award to
- 39th
- * Tobu Kujaku by
- * Mojika by Toh EnJoe
- * Contribution Award 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 and
- * Contribution Award to Hideo Azuma and Taku Mayumura
- * SFWJ President Award to and
- 41st
- * Kanki no uta Hakubutsukan wakusei III by Hiroe Suga
- * Seikei Izumo no heitan series by
- * Special Award to for translation and introduction of Chinese science fiction
- * Contribution Award to Yasumi Kobayashi
- 42nd
- * Ōoku: The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga
- 43rd
- * SF-suru Shikō - Aramaki Yoshio SF Hyōron Shūsei by Yoshio Aramaki
- * Zangetsuki by
- * Contribution Awards to,, and
- 44th
- * Protocol of Humanity by
- * Contribution Awards to,,, Leiji Matsumoto