Based on superior academic achievement and creativity, the prize is given to a work that clarifies the depth of various worlds through a rich story.

Keiko Iwamiya Shinichi Nakazawa Juichi Yamagiwa Kiyokazu Washida

The selection is made once a year. The applicable work for selection is work that has been published/announced going back two years starting from March every year.
[The first selection was the two years from April 2011 to March 2013]

The official announcement of the selection results will be published in the magazine, The Thinker Summer Edition (scheduled to be published in July every year).
The candidate works are not made public.

A memento and prize money of 1 million yen