Takiguchi, Motoya share Akutagawa award, Aoyama wins Naoki Prize

Novelists Yukiko Motoya (C) and Yusho Takiguchi (R), winners of the Akutagawa Prize for up-and-coming authors, and Bumpei Aoyama, winner of the Naoki Prize for popular fiction, hold up their award-winning works while posing for a photo at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2016. The awards will be presented at a ceremony in Tokyo in late February. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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