Numata wins Akutagawa literary award, Sato wins Naoki Prize

Writer Shogo Sato is pictured in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture on June 29, 2017. Sato received the Naoki Prize for popular fiction for his work "Tsuki no michikake" (Waxing and Waning of the Moon) that explores reincarnation, on July 19, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo