The winners of the 2023 Seiun Awards were announced August 5 at Sci-con2023, the 61st Japan Science Fiction Convention, held at the Urawa Community Center in Saitama.

Thanks to N. for making the translations into English.

BEST JAPANESE LONG WORK

• Protocol of Humanity, by Satoshi Hase (Hayakawa Shobo)

BEST JAPANESE SHORT WORK

•  “The Sagacious Stags,” from the collection of the same name, by Kouichi Harukure (Hayakawa Bunko JA)

BEST TRANSLATED LONG WORK

• Foundation trilogy (new translation), by Isaac Asimov. Translated by Yasuko Kaji (Sogen SF Bunko, Tokyo Sogensha)

BEST TRANSLATED SHORT WORK

• “Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea,” from the collection of the same name, by Sarah Pinsker. Translated by Izumi Ichida (Takeshobo Bunko) (original English release)
• The Wandering Earth, from the collection of the same name, by Liu Cixin. Translated by Nozomi Ohmori and Masako Furuichi (Kadokawa) (English release)

BEST MEDIA

• Shin Ultraman (film)

BEST COMIC

• Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, by Uoto (Big Comics, Shogakukan)

BEST ARTIST

• Kenji Tsuruta (cartoonist/illustrator)
• Naoyuki Kato (illustrator)

BEST NONFICTION

• Globe-Trotter Travel Guidebook: Mu, edited by Globe-Trotter Travel Guidebook Editorial Office (Gakken Plus)

FREE NOMINATION

• No award

[Thanks to Hirohide (Jack R.) Hirai for the story. Thanks to N. for the translations to English.]