# Editors' Choice Magazine Journalism Award

The Editors' Choice Magazine Journalism Award (編集者が選ぶ雑誌ジャーナリズム賞, Hensũsha ga Erabu Zasshi Jānarizumu Shō) is an annual prize for journalism awarded by a coalition of Japanese publishing companies since 1995. Participating companies include mainstream publishers like Kodansha, Shinchosha, and Bungeishunjū.

## Past awards

| Department | Winner | Winning journalism | Winning journalism | Publisher | Dates |
| 1995 ||||||
| Scoop | Kaga Kōei | Downfall of fascist oligarch Ryoichi Sasakawa | | Bungeishunjū | 1994 June–July |
| Scoop | | Nissan vice president's "lost year" | | Gendai | 1994 August |
| Writing | Yadaka Norio | Death of a Pulitzer Prize Cameraman—The Truth | | Bungeishunjū | 1994 August |
| Writing | Komori Yoshihisa | Why did a mother die at a university hospital? | | Chuo Kōron | 1994 February - December |
| Project | | Kotobagari and Discrimination: A Thorough Investigation | | Bunshun | 1994 February - March |
| Project | Akiko Satō | "My diary of Tanaka Kakuei" | | Shinchō 45 | 1994 September - November |
| 1996 ||||||
| Scoop (Monthly) | Tatsuwa Iwase | The "Kyoto party" that slew the Ministry of the Treasury bureaucrats | | Gendai | 1995 May |
| Scoop (Weekly) | | Treasury Minister Nakajima's Side Business | | Friday | 1995 August |
| Writing | Fumiya Ichihashi | New evidence in the Glico Morinaga case | | Shinchō 45 | 1995 March |
| Writing | Fumihiko Takayama | A murdered Fujifilm executive's final letter | | VIEWS | 1995 January |
| Project | Shōko Egawa | Early investigations of Aum Shinrikyo | | Bungeishunjū | |
| Project | Tatsuwa Iwase | Corruption under the mask of the mass media | | VIEWS | 1995 December |
| Photography | | Murder of Hideo Murai | | Focus | 1995 May |
| Photography | Takeji Kumagai | Great Hanshin earthquake field photography | | Asahi Club | 1995 March, and on |
| 1997 ||||||
| Scoop | Anonymous | "I was raped by Ikeda Daisaku" | | Shincho | |
| Scoop | 吉田仁 | Why did an NEC elite businesswoman kill her children in a fire? | | Gendai | |
| Project | 米本和広 | Inside the Yamagishi cult | | VIEWS | |
| Project | 斎藤貴男 | "Erythromycin": medicine or poison? | | Shokun! | |
| Work | 黒沼克史 | The terrible life of high school girls | | Bunshun | |
| Work | 与那原恵 | Origins of a myth: the fabricated "rapes" in the Kobe earthquake | | Shokun! | |
| Photography | 大倉乾吾 宮嶋茂樹 | Photos of Shoko Asahara | | Bunshun | |
| 1998 ||||||
| Scoop (Weekly) | | Yamaichi Securities: Grave Suspicions | | Weekly Toyo Keizai | 1997 April・May |
| Scoop (Monthly) | Okuno Shuuji | Kobe child murders: 28 Years Ago | | Bunshun | 1997 December |
| 作品賞 | 佐野眞一 | Charisma—Isao Nakauchi's Postwar Revival | | 日経ビジネス | 1997 June |
| Project | 舛添要一 | A mother with dementia and her household | | Women's Public | 1997 November - December |
| Photography | | "Sōkaiya Racketeering" | | Focus | 1997 April |
| 1999 ||||||
| Scoop (Weekly) | | Naoto Kan's Secret Hotel Meeting | | Weekly Bunshun | 1998 November |
| Scoop (Monthly) | | The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan Is Bankrupt | | Gendai | 1998 July |
| Writing | 高山文彦 | Kobe child murders—the conditions of the suspect's family | | Shincho 45 | 1998 July |
| Writing | Uozumi Akira | The Disappearance of Heo Yeong-jung | | Weekly Bunshun | 1998 May |
| Project | | Dog lover murders—a terrifying letter of confession | | Weekly Shincho | 1998 November |
| Project | Eya Osamu | Inside the highest ranks of North Korea: Kim Jong Il's Retainers | | SAPIO | |
| Photography | | Kobe child murders principal went to a strip club on graduation day | | Focus | 1998 March |
| 2000 ||||||
| Scoop (Weekly) | | Kobe child murders suspect's letter to his parents | | Weekly Bunshun | 1999 March |
| Scoop (Monthly) | | Scandal in the national prosecutors' office | | Truth and Rumors | 1999 May |
| Writing | Iwase Tetsuya | Biography of Noboru Takeshita | | Shincho 45 | |
| Writing | Uozumi Akira | "King of Japan" Tsuneo Watanabe's "glory" and "solitude" | | 現代 | |
| Project | | Johnny & Associates: The Monster of the Entertainment World | | Bunshun | 1999 October |
| Project | 江藤淳 | Wife and I | | Bunshun | 1999年5月号 |
| Photography | | Kincho President's Orgies and Prostitution | | Friday | 1999年9月17日号 |
| Photography | | Tsuneo Watanabe and Soka Gakkai's Secret Pact | | Friday | 1999 October |
| 2001 ||||||
| Scoop (Weekly) | Kiyoshi Shimizu | Uncovering police complicity in murder of Shiori Ino | | FOCUS | |
| Scoop (Weekly) | | KSD scandal reporting | | Weekly Asahi | All year |
| Scoop (Monthly) | | Neomugicha incident: a letter from parents | | Bunshun | |
| Scoop (Monthly) | | Yoshirō Mori's failures as prime minister | | Truth of Rumors | |
| Writing | 本田靖春 | "I'm not going to live as a cynic" | | Gendai | All year |
| Writing | 日垣隆 | Who is Sataka Makoto? | | Shokun! | All year |
| Writing | 柳美里 | "Life" | | Weekly Post | All year |
| 2002 ||||||
| Grand Prize | | Politician Ichiro Nakagawa's suicide: 18 years later, the truth | | Shincho 45 | 2001 March |
| Grand Prize | | Ryōko Hirosue "rode a taxi for 150km" | | Friday | 2001 July |
| Writing | 中尾幸司 | Downfall of a household: Murder arrest of a middle school girl | | Shincho 45 | 2001 November - December |
| Scoop | | Kenny Katsuhiko Nomura's Shocking Confession | | Weekly Shincho | 2001 June |
| Planning | 上杉隆 | Investigation of Makiko Tanaka | | Weekly Bunshun | 2001 May |
| 2003 ||||||
| Grand Prize | 溝口敦 | Investigation of HANNAN company president | | Weekly Gendai | 2002 September - December |
| Scoop | | Kiyomi Tsujimoto's misuse of political funds | | Weekly Shincho | 2001年3月28日号ほか一連の記事 |
| Scoop | | Politician Taku Yamasaki's perverted sex fantasies—horrifying photos | | Weekly Bunshun | 2001 May, and on |
| Planning | | What is a "judge"? | | Weekly Shincho | 2002 October - December |
| Photography | | Chikage Oogi's husband's secret love | | Friday | 2002 June |
| 2004 ||||||
| Grand Prize | | Nippon TV's sinking viewership—whitewashing and lies | | FLASH | 2003 November - December |
| Grand Prize | 山田直樹 | I Denounce Soka Gakkai, Part 2 | | Weekly Shincho | 2003 November - December |
| Planning | | Investigation of national pension problems | | Weekly Gendai | |
| Work | | Investigation of Hiromu Nonaka | | Shūkan Gendai | |
| Issues | | Truth and lies about a government official | | Bunshun | |
| Scoop | | Senichi Hoshino's so-called "voluntary retirement" | | Friday | |
| 2005 ||||||
| Grand Prize | | Kōhaku Uta Gassen's $800,000 director's fee | | Weekly Bunshun | 2004 July |
| Grand Prize | 鵜飼克郎 | Fraudulent onsen photos | | Weekly Post | 2004 July |
| Scoop | | Makiko Esumi's hypocritical pension commercial | | Weekly Gendai | 2004 April |
| Work | 深山渓 | Waseda Elementary School's $35k Entrance Fee | | Monthly Gendai | 2004 February |
| Project | | Soka Gakkai's Economic Power | | Weekly Diamond | 2004 August 7 |
| Photography | | Saki Takaoka and Tomoyasu Hotei's adulterous kiss | | Friday | 2004 July |
| Issues | | Mayumi Wakamura's religious cult husband | | Women's Seven | 2004 March |
| 2006 ||||||
| Grand Prize | | Freestyle skier Tae Satoya's nightclub sex | | Weekly Bunshun | |
| Scoop | | Taizō Sugimura's concealed engagement breakoff and abortion | | Weekly Post | 2005 October |
| Scoop | | Murder and arson at the house of Mabuchi Motor president | | Weekly Asahi | 2005 December, and on |
| 2007 ||||||
| Grand Prize | | An economist's love affair | | Weekly Post | 2006 December |
| Grand Prize | Machida Tetsu | Nikko Cordial's secret scandal | | Monthly Gendai | 2006 February |
| Scoop | | Suicide scandal at the Chinese embassy | | Weekly Bunshun | 2006 January |
| Writing | | Exclusive letter from Kazuko Hosoki's father | | Weekly Gendai | 2006年5月20日 - 8月19・26日号 |
| Writing | 米山勝弘 | 「豪憲君's father's exclusive letter | | Weekly Shincho | 2006 July |
| Planning | Nishioka Kensuke | JR East's secretly controlled by the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) | | Weekly Gendai | 2006 July - December |
| Issues | | NEWS23 Mona Yamamoto's affair with married Yomiuri Giants player Tomohiro Nioka | | Friday | 2006 October |
| 2008 ||||||
| Grand Prize | | Asashōryū Akinori's sumo match fixing | | Weekly Gendai | 2007 February, and on |
| Grand Prize | | Exposure of "natto diet" scam on national television (article caused a large scandal) | | Weekly Asahi | 2007 January, and on |
| Issues | | Yumiko Himei's 6-year-long affair | | Weekly Bunshun | 2007 September |
| Issues | | Celebrity tells all about her divorce with sumo wrestler Wakanohana Masaru | | Women's Seven | 2007 October |
| Scoop | | Why a defense minister got skipped over in the cabinet reshuffle | | Weekly Post | 2007 September |
| Writing | Mori Isao | Revolving door between justice system and private lawyers | | Monthly Gendai | 2007 October - 2008 May |
| Planning | | Yoshimoto Kogyo's ties to the yakuza | | Weekly Shincho | 2007 April, and on |
| 2009 ||||||
| Grand Prize | | Mona Yamamoto's affair | | Women's Seven | 2008 July |
| Grand Prize | Itou Shunya | How a 36-year-old pregnant woman's body got lost in the streets | | Weekly Bunshun | 2008 October |
| Scoop | | Akihabara massacre: confession from suspect's brother | | Weekly Gendai | 2008 June |
| Scoop | | Spotted at a yakuza's birthday party: Takashi Hosokawa, Akira Kobayashi, and more | | Weekly Shincho | 2008 October |
| Issues | | Mizuho Corporate Bank president's adultery | | Friday | 2008 August |
| Issues | | Adult film star Minako Komukai's prostitution | | Weekly Post | 2008 November |
| Writing | Mori Isao | The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and burakumin | | Monthly Gendai | 2008 November |
| Photography | | Ai Fukuhara and Kei Nishikori's secret romance | | Friday | 2008 December |
| 2010 | 2010 | 2010 | 2010 | 2010 | Source |
| Grand Prize | | Yoshitada Konoike's secret weekend affair (an exposé which caused the politician to enter a mental hospital) | | Weekly Shincho | 2009 May |
| Issues | | Television announcer Natsume Miku's naughty photos | | FLASH | 2009 July |
| Issues | | When politician Tanaka Mieko was a "cosplay reporter" | | FRIDAY | 2009 September |
| Work | | Ichirō Ozawa's bribery scandal—a secret financial world revealed | | Weekly Gendai | 2009 March, and on |
| Scoop | | Shigeo Nagashima's son Kazushige Nagashima wrecks his father's heritage | | Weekly Post | 2009 December |
| 2011 | 2011 | 2011 | 2011 | 2011 | Source |
| Grand Prize | | Sumo giant Kotomitsuki Keiji's expensive secrecy pact | | 週刊新潮 | 2010年5月27日号 |
| Scoop | | Arashi fan's "confession" | | 週刊文春 | 2010年11月11日号 |
| Scoop | | Hiroshi Nakai and his favorite hostess bar | | 週刊新潮 | 2010年4月1日号 |
| Writing | ja:村木厚子 江川紹子 | Muraki Atsuko's misuse of funds for handicapped | | 文藝春秋 | 2010 October |
| Writing | Shimizu Kiyoshi | Ashikaga murder case: an innocent man, 17 years in prison | | 文藝春秋 | 2010 October |
| Issues | | AKB48 Sayaka Akimoto's "home date" with a 56-year-old man | | Weekly Bunshun | 2010 October |
| Issues | | Ai Aoki's adulterous date | | Weekly Shincho | 2010 September |
| Photography | | Kiyoshi Hikawa's nighttime date | | FRIDAY | 2010年7月30日号 |
| 2012 | 2012 | 2012 | 2012 | 2012 | Source |
| Grand prize | Uehara Yoshihiro | Investigative biography of Tōru Hashimoto | | Shincho 45 | 2011 November |
| Grand prize | Yamaguchi Yoshimasa | Olympus scandal series | | FACTA | 2011 August - 2012 |
| Scoop | | Nuclear spokesman Nishiyama Hidehiko's use of prostitutes | | Weekly Shincho | 2011 June |
| Scoop | | Golfer Ryo Ishikawa stays at engaged woman's house | | 女性セブン | 2011 November |
| Writing | Sano Shin'ichi | Biography of Masayoshi Son | | 週刊ポスト | 2011 January - September |
| Issues | | Celebrity Yōsui Inoue's adultery | | Bunshun | 2011 July |
| Issues | | Celebrity Shinsuke Shimada's "black cell phone" and organized crime | | Weekly Asahi | 2011 September |
| Photography | | Politician Masazumi Gotoda's adulterous practices | | FRIDAY | 2011年6月17日号 |
| Special Award: Earthquake/Nuclear Issues | Ishii Kouta | Special report: Recovering bodies from the tsunami areas | | Shincho 45 | 2011 June–July |
| 2013 | 2013 | 2013 | 2013 | 2013 | Source |
| Grand Prize | 松田賢弥 | Ichirō Ozawa's wife's divorce papers | | Weekly Bunshun | 2012 June |
| Scoop | | Tatsunori Hara pays off a yakuza boss | | Weekly Bunshun | 2012 June |
| Scoop | | Hashimoto Toru gropes a stewardess | | Weekly Bunshun | 2012 July |
| Scoop | | Celebrity's reliance on his mother | | Women's Seven | 2012 April |
| Writing | 五味洋治 | E-mails from Kim Jong-nam | | Bunshun | 2012 March |
| Writing | 岩井克己 | Interview with Emperor of Japan's former physician | | Bunshun | 2012 August |
| Issues | | Atsuko Maeda carried home at night by a Ruroni Kenshin actor | | Bunshun | 2012 September |
| Photography | | Politician Tanaka Mieko's scandalous adultery | | Weekly Shincho | 2012 June |
| 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | 2014 | Source: |
| Grand Prize | | CHAGE and ASKA - ASKA blackmailed by yakuza after being caught doing meth on camera! | | Weekly Bunshun | 2013 August |
| Scoop | | Mari Yaguchi's adultery in front of her husband | | Weekly Woman | 2013 June |
| Scoop | | We name the Kyodo News director who invited a college student to spend a night with him | | Weekly Bunshun | 2013 May |
| Issues | | AKB's Minami Minegishi and EXILE's Alan Shirahama go at it! | | Weekly Bunshun | 2013 February |
| Issues | | Mysterious letters from a murder suspect | | Josei Jishin | 2013 October |
| Writing | Takeo Noguchi | Is the "deaf genius composer" Mamoru Samuragochi for real? | | Shincho 45 | 2013 November |
| Planning | 奥野修司 他 | Exposé of high levels of poisonous toxins in Chinese meat used at McDonald's in Japan | | Weekly Bunshun | 2013 March |
| Planning | | Letters from every prisoner on death row | | Weekly Post | 2013 February |
| Photography | | Scoop!　Princess Kako of Akishino's lavish night out in Kabukicho | | FLASH | 2013 April |
| 2015 | 2015 | 2015 | 2015 | 2015 | Source: |
| Grand Prize | Koyama Norio | The deaf composer was a charlatan! | | Weekly Bunshun | 2014 February |
| Scoop | | Yūko Obuchi's "political funds" by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry | | Weekly Shincho | 2014 October |
| Scoop | | Real name accusation against the representative of Your Party who hid $8 million in debt　Farewell politician Yoshimi Watanabe and representative DHC chairman Yoshiaki Yoshida exclusive memo | | Weekly Shincho | 2014 April |
| Issues | | Makiko Esumi's "stupid son" and Kazushige Nagashima's house with graffiti | | Weekly Bunshun | 2014 September |
| Issues | | Exclusive scoop: The reason why Miss Toyo Eiwa canceled NTV's "women's announcer job offer" | | Weekly Gendai | 2014 November |
| Writing | Ryutaro Nakamura | ASKA is arrested! | | Weekly Bunshun | 2014 May |
| Writing | Ryusho Kadota | Asahi Shimbun's Yoshida Report scoop is the same as military comfort women false report | | Weekly Post | 2014 June |
| Photography | | Daisuke Takahashi is forcibly kissing with Seiko Hashimoto | | Weekly Bunshun | 2014 August |
| Photography | | Scoop: Karina's origin of the “free-spirited” love with him who is rumored to be from Taiwan | | FRIDAY | 2014 April |
| 2016 | 2016 | 2016 | 2016 | 2016 | Source: |
| Grand Prize | | Mary Kitagawa's angry monologue for 5 hours | | Weekly Bunshun | 2015 January |
| Scoop | | "Takaya Mutō made me a slave in the legislator's dormitory" Other reports on Takaya Mutō | | Weekly Bunshun | 2015 September |
| Scoop | | The site of the affair of Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Yūko Nakagawa, who kissed her on the night of her resignation as Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries | | Weekly Shincho | 2015 March |
| Issues | | "Underwear thief" The qualities of Tsuyoshi Takagi in his promotion to minister - Other reports on Tsuyoshi Takagi | | Weekly Shincho | 2015 October |
| Issues | | Cohabitation love in full bloom between Norika Fujiwara and Kataoka Ainosuke VI | | Josei Jishin | 2015 June |
| Writing | | Ken Takakura's final memoirs | | Bungeishunjū | 2015 January |
| Writing | Masumi Fukuda | Monster Mother　Maruko Business High School bullying suicide case in Maruko, Nagano | | Shincho 45 | 2015 January - May |
| Planning | | An employee makes a death-defying accusation in this magazine, the origin of corrosion, and other reports surrounding Toshiba's series of fraudulent accounting | | Nikkei Business | 2015 August |
| Photography | | These two were really good! "Holding hands with sunglasses, wish!"　Keiko Kitagawa and DAIGO hot secret meeting and a stay at a mansion | | FRIDAY | 2015 January |
| 2017 | 2017 | 2017 | 2017 | 2017 | Source: |
| Grand Prize | | 31 year-old Becky's forbidden love: Her partner is a singer who is making his first appearance at Kōhaku Uta Gassen | | Weekly Bunshun | 2016 January |
| Scoop | | "I gave a bribe of 12 million yen to Akira Amari's office" real name accusation | | Weekly Bunshun | 2016 January |
| Scoop | | Exclusive scoop!　Hiroki Narimiya cocaine sucking suspicion site photo! | | FRIDAY | 2016 December |
| Issues | | Commuting to hot spring villas every weekend in Governor of Tokyo Yōichi Masuzoe's official car | | Weekly Bunshun | 2016 May |
| Issues | | Kensuke Miyazaki, a parliamentarian on maternity leave's "guess affair" photo (article which led to his resignation) | | Weekly Bunshun | 2016 February |
| Issues | | Unsatisfied with monogamy, affair with five Ototake-kuns | | Weekly Shincho | 2016 March |
| Writing | Kenichi Dokoi | Junichiro Koizumi's monologue | | Bungeishunjū | 2016 January |
| Writing | Masuo Yokota | Uniqlo one year infiltration | | Weekly Bunshun | 2016 December |
| Photography | | 40-something Yō Yoshida love affair is 7 consecutive nights of eating meat with the strongest idol who is 20 years younger than her! | | Weekly Post | 2016 April |
| 2018 | 2018 | 2018 | 2018 | 2018 | Source: |
| Grand Prize | | A series of reports about the female representative: The brutality of Mayuko Toyota, a member of the House of Representatives | | Weekly Shincho | 2017 June |
| Grand Prize | | Princess Mako's "mother-in-law" debt has more than $40,000 | | Weekly Woman | 2017 December |
| Scoop | | Victim woman accuses! A series of reports on Prime Minister Abe's quasi-rape arrest warrant and former TBS reporter Noriyuki Yamaguchi, which was crushed by the Chief of Criminal Affairs Department of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department | | Weekly Shincho | 2017 May |
| Scoop | | Shocking confession by brother of Takako Uehara's husband who committed suicide "At the end of a fatal affair" | | Woman Seven | 2017 August |
| Scoop | | Shiori Yamao's forbidden love with handsome lawyer | | Weekly Bunshun | 2017 September |
| Issues | Isao Mori | Pursuing a series of Kake Gakuen scandals | | Bungeishunjū | 2017 May, July - September |
| Writing | Taeko Ishii | Yuriko Koike's research shouldering the work of her father | | Shincho 45 | 2017 January |
| Writing | | One-hit wonder entertainer biographies | | Shincho 45 | 2017 January - December |
| Photography | | All photos of 11 days of passionate pursuit between Sho Sakurai from Arashi and TV Asahi announcer Ayaka Ogawa | | Weekly Post | 2017 March |
| Photography | | A series of reports on House of Councillors member Eriko Imai's adultery with Kobe City Council member Ken Hashimoto | | Weekly Shincho | 2017 August |
| 2019 | 2019 | 2019 | 2019 | 2019 | Source: |
| Grand Prize | | Moritomo Gakuen in crisis! Sexual harassment sound source of the worthless Vice Minister of Finance and a series of investigation campaign articles | | Weekly Shincho | 2018 April |
| Scoop | | Emperor is trying to destroy Yasukuni. Yasukuni Shrine top imperial criticism ripples | | Weekly Post | 2018 October |
| Scoop | | Obtained documentary evidence! Minister Satsuki Katayama has $10,000 with national tax | | Weekly Bunshun | 2018 October |
| Issues | | "Itte Q!" has completed Daisuke Miyagawa's "Festival" project | | Weekly Bunshun | 2018 November |
| Issues | | Kaori Icho's heartbreaking confession: Insidious power harassment from her former teacher Kazuhito Sakae | | Weekly Bunshun | 2018 March |
| Writing | Taeko Ishii | Yuriko Koike's fake resume | | Bungeishunjū | 2018 July |
| Writing | Tomohiko Suzuki | "Infiltration report Toyosu and Yakuza" and a series of articles related to "Fish and Yakuza" | | Weekly Post | 2018 October |
| Photography | | Hitomi Yoshizawa hit-and-run video recorded on drive recorder (an exposé which caused the celeb to retire) | | FRIDAY | 2018 September |
| Digital Awards | | Waseda University professor excessive courtship sexual harassment | | President Online | 2018 June |
| Digital Awards | | Princess Mako and Kei Komuro's engagement event to be postponed until next year | | News Post Seven | 2018 February |
| 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | 2020 | Source: |
| Grand Prize | | Hiroyuki Miyasako and other popular entertainers of Yoshimoto Kogyo are reported on a series of "dark business" by criminal groups | | FRIDAY | 2019 June |
| Scoop | | Advisor to Prime Minister Abe and a beautiful bureaucrat intimidated Professor Shinya Yamanaka on an affair trip to Kyoto | | Weekly Bunshun | 2018 December |
| Scoop | | Illegal acquisition of Miss Warbler by Minister of Justice Katsuyuki Kawai (an exposé which caused the politician to be imprisoned) | | Weekly Bunshun | 2019 November |
| Issues | Eiji Tamura | Accusing Ryuichi Hirokawa, a world-famous human rights journalist, of sexual violence | | Weekly Bunshun | 2019 January |
| Issues | Greg Kelly | 3 hours of exclusive confession: Hiroto Nishikawa is not qualified to be the president of Nissan | | Bungeishunjū | 2019 July |
| Issues | | Confession of Super Free culprit, Shinichiro Wada | | Weekly Shincho | 2019 February |
| Writing | Satoru Ishido | Naoki Hyakuta phenomenon | | Newsweek Japan edition | 2019 June |
| Writing | Masuo Yokota | Infiltration report: Amazon desperation warehouse | | Weekly Post | 2019 August - September |
| Photography | | Ministry Isshu Sugawara's voters buyout | | Weekly Bunshun | 2019 October |
| Digital Awards | Makoto Okano | Verification: Yasutaro Matsuki "It's a good ball!" Is it really a good ball? | | News Post Seven | 2019 February |
| Digital Awards | | Obituary: "Last words" that the cram school teacher "Kinpika-sensei" told only to us "Because there is no meaning even if you are alive" | | Gendai Business | 2019 September |
| 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | Source: |
| Grand Prize | | Prosecutor Kurokawa from Tokyo High Public Prosecutor's Office is a habitual offender of mahjong gambling on entertainment Scoop shots from the scene | | Weekly Bunshun | May 2020 |
| Scoop | | Moritomo suicide - Ministry of Finance official full text of suicide note released "Everything is directed by Director Sagawa" | | Weekly Bunshun | March 2020 |
| Scoop | | "Kei Komuro's mother's ex-fiancé" monologue: "I will tell Princess Mako. I don't need the money ($35,000) anymore" | | Weekly Gendai | December 2020 |
| Issues | | Nozomi Sasaki's frenzy: Ken Watabe's "Take out affair" | | Weekly Bunshun | June 2020 |
| Issues | | Early afternoon "love hotel secret meeting" Daiya Seto "winning meal" dedication betrayal to "beautiful wife" | | Weekly Shincho | October 2020 |
| Issues | | Anne's divorce crisis, Masahiro Higashide's "Underage adultery" (an exposé which caused the couple to divorce) | | Weekly Bunshun | January 2020 |
| Writing | Tadahira Suzuki | The most hated director | | Weekly Bunshun | August 2020 |
| Photography | | Ruriko Kojima: The Kingdom Manga artist and Fukuoka "Love for matchmaking" | | Weekly Post | August 2020 |
| Digital Awards | | Do it quickly: Avex chairman Matsuura's "cannabis pickled" trip to Hawaii Released "evidence audio" at a chalk mansion | | Bunshun Online | August 2020 |
| 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | 2022 | Source: |
| Grand Prize | | Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's eldest son's illegal entertainment of high-ranking government officials | | Weekly Bunshun | February 2021 |
| Scoop | | Sayaka Kanda's 'suicide note' dating actor and feud | | Weekly Bunshun | December 2021 |
| Scoop | | "Naomi Watanabe is Olympig": The person in charge of the Olympics opening ceremony accused of "disrespecting women" (an exposé which caused the concerned person to resign) | | Weekly Bunshun | March 2021 |
| Issues | | Taro Aso's closest aide, former minister Jun Matsumoto is absorbed in "Italian Ginza" | | Weekly Shincho | February 2021 |
| Issues | | "Two women" that Ichikawa Ebizo spent at a hotel in Yonago, Kurashiki | | Weekly Post | October 2021 |
| Photography | | Scoop! Ai Fukuhara left her husband and child in Taiwan and went home and had an affair | | Woman Seven | March 2021 |
| Writing | Kei Nakamura | Laughing God M-1, its naivety and madness | | Weekly Bunshun | November 2021 |
| Writing | Ippo Nakahara | Verification: Keigo Oyamada incident | | Weekly Bunshun e-edition | October 2021 |
| Digital Awards | | A mother's tearful confession: "My daughter's body was frozen" A 14-year-old girl froze to death in Asahikawa at -17°C. | | Bunshun Online | April 2021 |
| Digital Awards | | Scoop shot: Mizutamari Bond, Ayanan, Comdot … 31 super popular YouTubers under the declaration of emergency “Self-restraint breaking big party” “Drunken karaoke until 3 a.m.” | | Bunshun Online | June 2021 |
| Digital Awards | | Anonymous account attacking the opposition party on Twitter ... The identity was a "corporation" | | FRIDAY Digital | October 2021 |