- Author: Yū Miri - Title: JR Ueno Station Park Entrance - Awards: National Book Award winner - Ranking: #1 - Series: Yū Miri's Yamanote Line Series A moving work that won the National Book Award, Yū Miri's "JR Ueno Station Park Entrance." In 1933, I was born on the same day as the "Emperor" -- Through the life of a man who arrived at Ueno Station for work in the year before the Tokyo Olympics, the light and shadow of Japan are depicted... A story for all those who have lost their place. Commentary by Takeshi Harawata - Title: JR Shinagawa Station Takanawa Entrance - Series Name: Yū Miri's Yamanote Line Series - Awards: National Book Award winner A story set at JR Shinagawa Station Takanawa Entrance, a work by Yū Miri that won the National Book Award. A book in the "Yamanote Line Series" that stands alongside the National Book Award (translated literature category) winning work & best-selling book with over 300,000 copies, "JR Ueno Station Park Entrance," appears in Kawade Bunko (new edition of the paperback "Machiawase"). Someone, please tell me the difference between life and death -- The words "suicide" and "want to die" are flying around on the internet. On the train, a girl, Mone Ichihara, a first-year high school student, looks at the screen of her cell phone. Friendships that are just a formality, a family that is just a formality. Today, the girl gets on the train departing from Shinagawa at 21:12 and heads to the "promised place" with them --. A masterpiece that empathizes with the "soul" of a "lonely girl" who has no place to belong. *Includes "Afterword of the New Edition: As a Viewpoint" *Commentary by Asayo Takii, "The Moment of Not Dying"