Strawberry Road This work, which won the Ohya Prize, vividly depicts the author's days of toil, laughter, and sorrow in America, relying on his eldest brother who worked on a strawberry farm, and resonated widely with readers. It is a sincere and unpretentious, unique American story. Strawberry Boy This is an autobiographical non-fiction work that follows the Ohya Prize-winning "Strawberry Road." It is the story of "I" and my American youth, bewildered by a night with a gay man in New York and stunned by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Garden Boy "I," having left the strawberry fields, begins working as a gardener. The dry air, the white sunlight, and the silence that comes to the farm at night—. This is a beautiful conclusion to the California youth series, depicting the lost "memories of the landscape." Yoshimi Ishikawa 1947-2024: A writer and critic of the late Showa to Heisei eras. Born January 5, 1947. After graduating from high school, he went to America and worked as a farm laborer in California. Later, he studied Japanese-American immigration history at Keio University and engaged in critical activities, focusing on Japan's place in the international community. He won the Ohya Soichi Non-Fiction Prize in 1989 for "Strawberry Road," which summarized his experiences in the United States. He became chairman of the Social Infrastructure Research Institute in 1999 and president of Akita Municipal Junior College of Fine Arts and Crafts in 2001. He was from Tokyo and graduated from Keio University. ⚠ There are some markings in the first volume of "Strawberry Road."