Asahi Prize
The Asahi Prize ( Japanese 朝日 賞 , Asahi-shō ) is an annual award given by the media company Asahi Shimbun-sha . It is awarded in various categories to individuals as well as groups who have made outstanding achievements in the field of humanities and natural sciences or who have made outstanding contributions to cultural and social progress. The prize was awarded in 1929 on the 50th anniversary of the first issue of the Asahi Shimbun daily newspaper .
The prize was originally awarded in three categories: culture, welfare and physical fitness and was called the Asahi Culture Prize ( 朝日 文化 賞 , Asahi Bunkashō ) until it was renamed the Asahi Prize in 1979. Since 1992, the Asahi Shimbun bunka zaidan ( 朝日 新聞 文化 財 団 ; "Asahi Shimbun Cultural Foundation"; English "The Asahi Shimbun Foundation") has been responsible for organizing and awarding the prize. Usually up to five people are honored. The winners will be announced in early January. The award ceremony will take place at the end of January together with the presentation of the Osaragi Jirō Prize and the Osaragi Jirō Critic's Prize ( 大佛 次郎 論壇 賞 ). The laureates will receive a bronze statuette in the form of a woman and prize money of 5 million yen.
So far, 459 individuals and 27 groups have received awards (as of 2015).
Award winners
1929 to 1930
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1929
- Tsubouchi Shōyō (writer)
- Suhara Toyotaro (mechanical engineer) - for inventing a high-speed camera
- Maeda Seison (painter) - for the screen Dōkutsu no Yoritomo, "Yoritomo in the cave"
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1930
- Sasaki Nobutsuna (writer)
- Yamamoto Tadaoki (electrical engineer) - for his work on television
- Kawabata Ryūshi (painter and haiku poet) - for the second exhibition of Japanese art Gyomon 魚紋 of the Seiryusha artist group he founded and for Sōen 草 炎
- Uchida Minoru - for his research on Andō Hiroshige , the master of Japanese woodblock prints
1931 to 1940
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1931
- Hoshino Shozaburō and Yamamoto Samurō for their research on the chemical purity of silk threads
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1932
- Takakusu Junjirō (Buddhologist) - for the editing and editing of Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō
- Mitsuya Kunishirō (painter) - for the 13th Imperial Himōsen Art Exhibition
- Suzuki Junichi - for the invention of the "Universal Micro-Printing Method"
- Nakanishi Kinsaku - for the invention of electrical machines for making patterned fabrics and papers
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1933
- Ihara Toshirō (theater critic and stage poet) - for his three works: Nihon Engekishi ( 日本 演劇 史 , about: History of Japanese Drama ), Kinsei Nihon Engekishi ( 近世 日本 演劇 史 , about: History of Modern Japanese Drama ) and Meiji Engekishi ( 明治演劇 史 , for example: History of the Meiji Period Acting )
- Yokoyama Taikan (painter) - for the 20th exhibition of the Japanese Art Academy: Mushi no ne
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1934
- Tanaka Kōtarō (legal scholar) - for the publication of Sekaihō no Riron ( 世界 法 の 理論 )
- Takamatsu Takashi - for his research on optical glasses
- Kanō Jigorō (founder of Jūdō ) - for his services to Jūdō
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1935
- Shimazaki Tōson (writer) - for his novel Yoake mae ( 夜 明 け 前 , dt. 'Before dawn')
- Mukiyama Heiichi (electrical engineer) - for his research on underwater communication
- Kimura Hisashi (astronomer) - for anticipating latitudes
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1936
- Makino Tomitarō (botanist) - for his work on the classification of the Japanese flora
- Okabe Kinjirō (electrical engineer) - for his research on microwaves
- Tokunaga Shigeyasu (Zoologist) - for the first publication of a scientific research report on Manchuria
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1937
- Tanaka Shōhei (physicist and railroad engineer) - for his research on pure tuning
- Iinuma Masaki (pilot) and Tsukagoshi Kenji (aviator) - for their world record flight from Japan to Europe
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1938
- Hosoya Seigo (bacteriologist) - for the refinement and application of bacterial toxins
- Fujita Yūzō (First Lieutenant of the Army), Takahashi Fukujirō and Sekine Kinkichi
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1939
- Hashimoto Kansetsu (painter) - for his work Gumba nidai ( 軍馬 二 題 )
- Koiso Ryōhei (painter) - for his works Nanking chūkamon sentōzu ( 南京 中華 門 戦 闘 図 ) and Heiba ( 兵馬 )
- Hino Ashihei (writer) - for his trilogy about war
- Kawase Makoto , Ogawa Tōru and Yokota Toshio - for their research on methods of direct coal liquefaction
- Miyama Tatsuzo and Abe Ryōnosuke - for their research on methods of coal liquefaction
- Kudo Koki - for his research on coal liquefaction methods
- Tsukada Taro
- Nakao Sumitoshi (pilot), Yoshida Shigeo , Shimokawa Hajime , Saeki Hiroshi , Sato Nobusada and Yaokawa Chosaku - for flying around the world
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1940
- Ishihara Shinobu - for researching the symptoms of color blindness
- Kawai Gyokudō - for his painting "Saiu" ( 彩 雨 )
- Sato Seizo
- Taki Seichi (art historian)
- Yanagita Kunio (cultural anthropologist) - for building and spreading Japanese folklore
- Yamada Kōsaku (composer) - for founding a symphony orchestra
1941 to 1950
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1941
- Kugimiya Iwao (politician), Arima Hiroshi and Kano Kenji
- Kubota Yutaka (businessman), Sato Tokihiko and Tamaki Shoji
- Miyoshi Matsukichi and Kazaoka Kenichirō
- Yasuda Yukihiko (painter)
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1942
- Tsuguharu Fujita (painter)
- Nakamura Kenichi
- Nobutoki Kiyoshi
- Iwata Toyoo - for his novel Kaigun ( 海軍 )
- Japanese film company
- Yoshida Eiza and Yoshida Bungoro
- Nishina Tamotsu
- Hasegawa Shuji
- Sakai Yoshio , Hishinuma Kenji and Yo Toku
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1944
- Nishina Yoshio
- Seo Teishin
- Tōa Archeological Society to Shimamura Kozaburo as deputy
- Umewaka Mazaburo
- Omata Hisao , Tanaka Hisayoshi , Shimazaki Kiyoshi , Sakamoto Sadaji , Morimatsu Hideo and Hahiro Ishio
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1945
- no awards
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1947
- Kaizuka Shigeki
- Kabuki actor group Zenshinza
- Masuyama Motosaburō
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1948
- Tanizaki Jun'ichirō
- to the Educational Films Department of Nihon Eiga Sha
- Sakata Shōichi
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1950
- Habara Yukichi
- Mizuno Seiichi and Nagahiro Toshio (art historians)
- Imai Isao
- Miki Shigeru
1951 to 1960
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1951
- Japan Symphony Orchestra (today: NHK Symphony Orchestra )
- Nozoe Tetsuo
- Yoshida Tomizo
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1952
- Research committee on Chinese agricultural practices to Noboru Niida as deputy
- Iwasaki Ken
- Kurotsu Toshiyuki
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1953
- Tsuji Zennosuke
- Tamura Jitsuzo and Kobayashi Yukio
- Oka Kiyoshi (mathematician)
- Motokawa Koichi
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1954
- Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (Author)
- Chiri Mashiho (Linguist)
- Oka Harumichi and Kumabe Hideo
- Tsuboi Chūji (geophysicist)
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1955
- Yoshikawa Eiji
- Yanagisawa Ken , Ebina Toshiaki , Obayashi Yoji , Toda Tadao and Kawamori Yuzo
- Miyake Shizuo and Ueda Ryōji (physicists)
- 1956
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1957
- Takeuchi Rizo
- Toda Hiroshi (mathematician)
- Kanaguri Shisō (marathon runner)
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1958
- Research group of the history of agricultural development with Tohata Seiichi as deputy
- Matsumura Takeo
- Umezawa Hamao (microbiologist)
- Yasumatsu Keizo
- Tobita Tadayori
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1959
- Yanagi Muneyoshi
- Ichikawa Jukai (Kabuki Actor)
- Takahashi Hidetoshi and Goto Eiichi
- Reona Esaki
- Iwasaki Kenkichi
- Yamamura Yūichi (immunologist)
- 1960
1961 to 1970
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1961
- Hasegawa Shin
- Maekawa Kunio
- Kota Rentaro
- Tabuchi Jurō
- Katsuki Yasuji
- Osaka University, Magnetic Theory Research Group at Takeo Nagamiya as deputy
- Takahara Shigeo
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1962
- Umehara Sueji
- Sakamoto Hanjirō
- Shibusawa Keizo
- Hanayagi Shotaro
- Matsushima Yozo
- Fukui Shuji and Miyamoto Shigenori
- Planning office for power plant No. 4 on the Kurobe River to Nose Masanori as deputy
- Okabe Heita
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1963
- Editor, who compiled the “Kokushi Taikei”, early historical writings, sent to Jirō Maruyama as deputy
- Zenchiku Yagoro
- Midoro Masuichi
- Ito Kisaku
- Kusumoto Masatsugu
- Kozai Yoshihide
- Ono Yoshiro
- Kimoto Seiji
- Sakakibara Shigeru
- Teruoka Gito
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1964
- Ishida Mosaku
- Naka Kansuke
- Osaragi Jirō
- Shikō Munakata
- Tange Kenzō
- Tokyo Cinema KK to Sozo Okada as deputy
- to the engineering group that developed the Shinkansen , to Shima Hideo as leader
- Hayaishi Osamu
- Tsuda Kyosuke , Hirata Yoshimasa , Nitta Isamu and Yokoo Akira
- Fujino Tsunesaburō , Takikawa Iwao , Fukumi Hideo and Sakazaki Riichi - for the discovery and research of the bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus
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1965
- Niida Noboru
- Tsuchiya Takao
- Yashiro Yukio
- Kurosawa Akira
- Hayashi Chūshirō (astrophysicist)
- Nakazawa Yoshio and Saeki Tatsuo
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1966
- Omodaka Hisataka
- Hayashi Takeshi
- Takizawa Osamu
- Ogino Kyusaku
- Egami Fujio
- Minamata Disease Research Group of the Faculty of Medicine at Kumamoto University, with Kutsuna Masachika as deputy
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1967
- Fukushima Masao
- Takata Osamu
- Takemoto Tsunematsu and Nakanishi Koji (chemists) - for discovering plant molting hormones in insects
- Hironaka Heisuke
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1968
- Iwao Seiichi
- Sugimura Haruko
- Ebashi Setsuro
- Primate research group led by Miyaji Denzaburō and Kinji Imanishi
- 1969
1971 to 1980
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1972
- Hayashi Tatsuo
- Society for cultural exchange between Japan and China, to Kenzo Nakajima as deputy
- Mizutani Yaeko
- Ichikawa Fusae
- Asakura Sho and Iino Tetsuo
- Hayashi Hideo
- 1973
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1975
- Ōoka Shōhei (writer) - for his contribution to post-war literature and for completing the complete edition of his works
- Shindō Kaneto (director and screenwriter) - for his contribution to independent film
- Hagihara Yusuke
- Kikuchi Yoshimitsu and Wagai Toshio
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1978
- Kanaseki Takeo
- Asahina Takashi (conductor) - for his services to the symphony
- Domon Ken
- Fujita Setsuya
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1979
- Komatsu Shigemi
- Kondo Jun
- Research group for hepatitis B, to Oda Toshitsugu as deputy
- Miki Yasumasa
- Tabata Masaji
1981 to 1990
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1982
- Nakano Yoshio
- Izutsu Toshihiko (Islamic scholar) - for his Islamic studies and his research in comparative religious studies
- Shiba Ryotaro
- Honda Kenichi , Fujishima Akira
- Numa Shosaku , and Nakanishi Shigetada
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1983
- Sata Ineko (writer) - for her many years of work as a writer and her contribution to contemporary literature
- Kamekura Yūsaku (designer) - for his services to bring Japanese design to an international level
- Minamoto Toyomune
- Watanabe Masaki
- Kakiuchi Shiro
- Hanafusa Hidesaburō
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1984
- Inoue Yasushi (writer) - for his many years of literary achievements and his contributions to international cultural exchange
- Takemitsu Tōru (composer) - for his international compositions
- Saitō Yoshishige
- Production team of the documentary The Silk Road of the Japanese television NHK
- Nishizawa Junichi
- Takahashi Michiaki
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1985
- Maruyama Masao (historian and political scientist)
- Kinoshita Junji
- Ozawa Seiji
- Miyagawa Kazuo
- Hayashi Izuo
- Nishizuka Yasutomi
- 1986
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1987
- Isozaki Arata (architect) - for his achievements in architecture and contemporary culture
- Tezuka Osamu ( Mangaka ) - for his creative achievements in the field of manga and anime in the post-war period
- Mori Hanae
- Umesao Tadao
- Kashiwara Masaki and Kawai Takahiro
- Masatoshi Koshiba on behalf of the Kamioka Neutrino Observatory
- Matsuo Hisayuki
- 1988
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1989
- Migishi Setsuko
- Matsumoto Seicho
- Morishita Yōko
- Hayashiya Tatsusaburo
- Masaji Kiyokawa
- Toyoshima Kumao and Yamamoto Tadashi
- Kawasaki Tomisaku (Pediatrician) - for research into Kawasaki disease named after him
1991 to 2000
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1991
- Miyake Issei
- Yasuoka Shōtaro
- Katō Shūson
- Tsuboi Kiyotari
- Shimura Gorō (mathematician) - for his research in the field of number theory
- Masaki Tomō
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1992
- Okubo Toshiaki
- Maki Fumihiko
- Wakasugi Hiroshi (conductor) - for his achievements and the work with which he represented Japan as an international conductor
- Chin Shunshin
- Sakagami Shoichi
- Noyori Ryōji
- 1994
- 1995
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1997
- Donald Keene
- Kawai Hayao
- Tanaka Ikko
- Yoshida Tamao
- Iga Kenichi
- Nagata Shigekazu (Molecular Biologist) - for researching the molecular mechanism of apoptosis
- 2000
2001 to 2010
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2001
- Ishimure Michiko - for her creative work, which shows the crisis of the ecosystem due to environmental pollution
- Miyazaki Hayao - for extraordinary animation films
- Takayasu Higuchi
- Jun Akimitsu
- Tokura Yoshinori - for his research in electronics
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2002
- Kawakubo Rei
- Shiroyama Saburō
- Katō Kazuya
- Tamao Kohei - for groundbreaking research and development in organometallic chemistry
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2003
- Hiroyama Ikuo - for his achievements as an artist and his commitment to monument protection
- Maruya Saiichi (writer) - for his literary work and in particular for Kagayaku Hinomiya (The Shining Prince)
- Kanbara Hideki - for developing a high- throughput DNA sequencing device
- Miyashita Yasushi - for explaining the brain's memory mechanism
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2004
- Nakamura Minoru - for his poetic work and his achievements in the literary museum up to his work My personal history of the Shōwa period ( わ た し の 昭和 史 , Watashi no Shōwa-shi )
- Akiyoshi Toshiko - for the development and dissemination of jazz music based on the American model as a pianist and as a big band leader
- Itakura Fumitada - for the development of a compression technology used for cell phones
- Tanaka Keiji - for determining the structure and mechanism of the proteasome in terms of protein degradation
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2005
- Hayashi Kyōko (writer) - for her outstanding literary work, completed with an 8-volume complete edition
- Iwaki Hiroyuki (musician) - for spreading contemporary Japanese music as a conductor
- Osawa Shōichi - for his performance as an actor and for re-evaluating traditional Japanese street performers
- Kuramoto Yoshiki - for his pioneering work on a non-linear model of the synchronization phenomenon
- Akira Shizuo - for his research on the mechanism of recognition of pathogens in natural immunity
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2006
- Tanabe Seiko - for her outstanding literary work, completed with a 25-volume complete edition
- Murakami Haruki (writer) - for his literary work translated into numerous languages
- Nomura Mansaku - for his contribution to the theater and his outstanding performance in Kyōgen
- Kawato Mitsuo
- Kondō Takao - for his research on the molecular mechanism of the biological clock
- Shimomura Osamu - for his discovery of green fluorescent proteins and his contribution to life sciences
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2007
- Ishii Momoko (writer) - for her commitment to children's and youth literature and for the translation of Winnie the Pooh
- Takemoto Sumitayū (puppeteer) - for his services to the Japanese puppet theater Bunraku and as best Tayū (narrator)
- Miyazaki Terunobu and Yuasa Shinji - for their research into the development and application of TMR
- Fukuyama Yukio , Toda Tatsushi and Endō Tamao - for discovering the Fukuyama type of congenital muscular dystrophy (MDC) and for clarifying related diseases
- Yamanaka Shin'ya - for developing and demonstrating a new method for generating pluripotent stem cells
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2008
- Mizuki Shigeru (Mangaka) - for his contributions to manga culture depicting the horrors of war
- Sawachi Hisae (writer) - for their non-fictional representation of the background that the Second World War led
- Betsuyaku Minoru (playwright) - for his work that promoted the establishment of the absurd theater in Japan
- Ōsumi Yoshinori (cell biologist) - for the elucidation of the molecular breakdown processes in autophagocytosis
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2009
- Itō Toyō (architect) - for his works in modern architecture that broadened the conception of space
- Hideki Noda (actor and director) - because he broke new ground in modern theater and promoted international exchange
- Fukaya Kenji (mathematician) - for his research on symplectic geometry
- Toyoshima Chikashi
- Suwa Gen
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2010
- Ikezawa Natsuki (writer)
- Harada Masazumi (medical practitioner) - for his interdisciplinary study of Minamata disease
- Project team for the Hayabusa space probe - for the successful collaboration between research, business and administration
- Hosono Hideo (physicist) - for developing transparent oxide semiconductors and metals
2011 to 2020
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2011
- Tadanori Yokoo (artist) - for innovative graphic design and contemporary paintings
- Isao Tomita (composer) - for his worldwide work as a composer
- Chizuko Ueno (Sociologist) - for her research and its application in the field of gender studies, feminism and nursing
- Hidetoshi Katori (physicist)
- Shimon Sakaguchi (medic)
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2012
- Kara Jūrō (actor, writer) - for his plays and original performances in tents
- Matsunami Hiroyuki (engineer) - for his research on semiconductors and silicon carbide
- Kamiya Nobuo (biochemist) and Shin Kenjin (biochemist) - for explaining the molecular mechanism of oxygen production during photosynthesis
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2013
- Takarazuka Revue (Music Theater) - for their contributions to Japanese stage arts over the past 100 years
- Tatsuya Nakadai (actor) - for his contribution to the art of acting and the film world
- Kosaka Kenji (Psychiatrist) - for discovering Lewy body dementia
- Mori Kazutoshi (biologist) - for explaining endoplasmic reticulum stress on a cellular level
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2014
- Ban Shigeru (architect)
- Yamada Taichi (writer)
- Ōmura Satoshi (pharmacist)
- Mitsuya Hiroaki (medic)
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2015
- Kazushi Ōno (conductor)
- Tōta Kaneko (poet)
- Shinji Murai (chemist)
- Masayuki Yamamoto and Yoshinori Watanabe (biologists)
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2016
- Nobuo Tsuji (art historian)
- Moto Hagio (Mangaka)
- Hiraku Nakajima (mathematician)
- Research group on the chemical element Nihonium , represented by Kōsuke Morita (nuclear physicist)
- 2017
- 2018
Asahi special price
The special award is given to individuals who have made outstanding contributions through years of international or social commitment and whose merit cannot be assigned to the award categories.
- 1995 Asahi Special Prize Sport: Aoki Hanji - for his commitment to promoting amateur sport
- 1999 Asahi Special Prize International Commitment: Ogata Sadako - for her tireless commitment as UN High Commissioner for Refugees .
Web link
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Asahi Shimbun
- ↑ Website of the Asahi Shimbun bunka zaidan (Japanese)
- ↑ Website of the Asahi Shimbun Foundation ( Memento from April 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English and Japanese)
- ↑ Illustration of the statuette made by the sculptor Satō Chūryō
- ↑ asahi.com: The Asahi Prize , accessed May 27, 2017
- ↑ Reading ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ [see also: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/groups/nakanishi/publication/total%20list.html ]
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