砂川文次
Born 1990 · Japan
Akutagawa 2021 (second half) · Winner
Burakku bokkusu
Title translated by AI:“Black Box”
Bunji Sunakawa · 31 when first published
Novel · 161 pages
AI-generated summary:Sakuma, an ex-soldier of the Self-Defence Forces who now rides as a cycle courier through Tokyo, has long yearned to get far away and cannot understand why he can't stop his own outbursts of rage.
Akutagawa 2020 (second half) · Candidate
Shōtai
Title translated by AI:“Platoon”
Bunji Sunakawa · 30 when first published
Novel · 157 pages · War, Speculative
AI-generated summary:When Russian forces land in Hokkaido and Japan faces its first ground war since 1945, Second Lieutenant Adachi of the Self-Defence Forces leads his platoon to meet them, through days of residents refusing to leave and intelligence that never comes, until the fighting begins.
Akutagawa 2018 (second half) · Candidate
Senjō no Rebiyatan
Title translated by AI:“Leviathan on the Battlefield”
Bunji Sunakawa · 28 when first published
Novella · 161 pages · War
AI-generated summary:K, a Japanese who has signed on as an armed guard protecting a British oil plant in Iraq, rides north from Kirkuk toward Erbil and keeps asking himself why he came, what war is, what makes it and who the enemy really is.