Sasebo is famous as a town that was born and grew with the construction of a military port. A place with a good natural port suitable for it is surrounded by steep rocky mountains and has few flat areas, which is a characteristic of the topography, and Nagasaki and Sasebo can be said to be representatives. In the war between Japan and Russia, it became a gathering place for the Combined Fleet, and the commander of the navy base was Heihachiro Togo(Born in Kajiya, Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, 1848-1934), who later became the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, Mitsumasa Yonai(Born in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, 1880-1948), who became Prime Minister, and other heavyweights of the Imperial Japanese Navy. During the Pacific War, it prospered more and more as a naval city crowded with military ports and shipyards. It is a well-known fact that Sasebo became a base for overseas salvage vessels immediately after the end of the war. Withdrawals from overseas and Uragashira on Hario Island due to the end of the war also landed from mainland China and the Southern Islands. Currently, this place is being maintained as a memorial peace park. After that, it developed as a peace industry port city, and after going through “shipbuilding” and “coal mine”, it is now energizing the Kyushu region as the center of the commercial service industry in the northern region of the prefecture along with the manufacturing industry.
The selection of the 157th Akutagawa Prize and Naoki Prize (sponsored by the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Literature) was held on July 19, 2017. “Moon waxing and waning” (Iwanami Shoten) by novelist Shogo Sato (Mr. Kanetaka), who lives in Sasebo City, has been selected as a prestigious award-winning work for the Naoki Sanjugo Award. In front of me is a little 7-year-old girl, who is actually my deceased child, now my deceased lover, now my deceased wife, and if not, who is this child? A story of a strange love that one girl and three boys are born from the overlap of 30 years of life. I will die a little as a suicide note. He talks about himself as trying to die, and maybe he will be reborn as a different person from death, and a chain reaction of dying and being reborn like the moon. Leave the word to the man. After a while, the woman died in a train accident, but he continued to believe in the woman's last words and Struggling. If you are reincarnated, what do you w...