Person with special cultural merit

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The distinction as a person with special cultural merits ( Japanese 文化 功 労 者 , Bunka Kōrōsha ) was introduced to give a person who has made a special and significant contribution to the development and progress of the culture of Japan , a cash donation an honorary salary: according to the law, the cultural order awarded by the emperor may not be combined with a donation of money. The award has been given since 1951, whereby the holders of the cultural order who had been honored up to that point were subsequently named persons with special cultural merits, so that they too could benefit from the donation. Every year around 15 people are honored, some of them - since the 1970s - at the same time as the higher-ranking cultural order .

The appointment of the person with special cultural merit is made by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and is considered a significant honor in Japan. The award is for life and comes with a pension payment of 3.5 million yen (approx. 34,000 euros, 2011) annually. The total expense for these pension payments in 2009 was approximately 800 million yen. The payment and its amount is regulated by the Pension Act for people with special cultural merits ( 文化 功 労 者 年金 法 , Bunka Kōrōsha Nenkinhō ). The sum of 3.5 million yen was set in 1982 in the implementing provisions for the Pension Act ( 文化 功 労 者 年金 法 施行 令 , Bunka Kōrōsha Nenkinhō Shikōrei ).

A selection committee, made up of university professors and writers, pre-selects the candidates, from which the minister determines the laureates . The winners will be announced together with the announcement of the laureates for the Japanese Cultural Order on November 3rd, Culture Day . For some years now, the award has not only taken into account the fields of art and science, but also film, handicrafts, sports and the like. a. The nationality of the awardees is not an exclusion criterion, but it is rare: so far the award has been given to three non-Japanese people: in 1999 to Marius Berthus Jansen, in 2002 to Donald Keene and in 2010 to Wáng Zhēnzhì ( Sadaharu Oh ).

By November 2016, 842 people had received the award.

Complete list of persons with special cultural merits

1951 to 1959

1960 to 1969

1970 to 1979

1980 to 1989

1990 to 1999

2000 to 2009

2010 to 2019

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reference for the German name: Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit: Japanese contemporary literature: A manual. edition text + kritik, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-88377-639-4 , p. 176.
  2. ↑ 文化 功 労 者 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, accessed November 25, 2011 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 文化 功 労 者 年金 法 施行 令  ( 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. - Implementing regulations (Japanese)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / law.e-gov.go.jp  
  4. ↑ 平 成 20 年度 文化 功 労 者 . MEXT, accessed October 30, 2012 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ 平 成 21 年度 文化 功 労 者 . MEXT, accessed October 30, 2012 (Japanese).
  6. ↑ 平 成 22 年度 文化 功 労 者 . MEXT, accessed October 30, 2012 (Japanese).
  7. ↑ 平 成 23 年度 文化 功 労 者 . MEXT, accessed October 30, 2012 (Japanese).

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