Operation Ten-Go
Henmi won the Nitta Jirō Culture Prize in 1984 for her 1983 book , about crew members of the Japanese battleship "Yamato" and their final voyage during Operation Ten-Go. The book was later made into a 2005 movie under the same title. Henmi also won two nonfiction literary awards for her 1989 work about notes received 10 years after World War II by the family of a man who died in a Russian prison camp in Siberia.