Nakane, 4 others to receive cultural awards

TOKYO, Japan - Social anthropologist Chie Nakane (photo) and four others will be awarded this year's Order of Culture, the government announces on Oct. 30. The other four recipients are electronics expert Hiroo Inokuchi, virologist Kumao Toyoshima, painter Tadashi Moriya and sculptor Toshio Yodoi. The five will be given the awards by the emperor at the Imperial Palace on Nov. 3, Culture Day.

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA000010493

Registered date
2001/10/29 00:00:00

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source

Media size
1185 × 1798 pixel

Resolution
72 dpi

Deployment size
810.47(KB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

(1)Princess Sayako, her fiance Kuroda meet the press

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Sayako (R), the only daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, and her fiance Yoshiki Kuroda speak at a press conference at the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo on Dec. 30. Earlier in the day, the Imperial Household Agency announced that Princess Sayako and Kuroda, a Tokyo metropolitan government employee, will marry after next summer. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

(1)Princess Nori to marry Tokyo gov't official Kuroda

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Sayako, the 35-year-old daughter of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, will marry Yoshiki Kuroda, a Tokyo metropolitan government official, a senior Imperial Household Agency official said on Nov. 14. This pool photo taken on Nov. 6, 2003 shows the princess speak at a press conference at the Imperial Palace prior to her official visit to Latin America. (Kyodo)

Kabuki actor Jakuemon, 4 others receive Order of Culture

TOKYO, Japan - Kabuki actor Nakamura Jakuemon receives an Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito as Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi watches at the Imperial Palace on Nov. 3. Jakuemon is one of the five persons to awarded the 2004 Order of Culture, Japan's most prestigious honor in the fields of culture and science. The four other recipients are Toan Kobayashi, an engraver, Shizuka Shirakawa, an authority on ancient Chinese culture, Horin Fukuoji, a painter of dynamic landscapes, and Yoji Totsuka, a physicist. (Kyodo)

(1)Emperor decorates four with Order of Culture

TOKYO, Japan - Four recipients of this year's Order of Culture pose (front, seated) with their spouses Nov. 3 at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. From L to R, they are poet Makoto Ooka, physicist Kazuhiko Nishijima, pathologist Wataru Mori, and former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata. (Kyodo)

Emperor, empress welcome Mexican President Fox

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko (R) talk with visiting Mexican President Vicente Fox and his wife Martha Sahagun de Fox at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Oct. 15. The Mexican president arrived in Japan earlier in the day for a four-day state visit. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

3 Japan Art Association laureates show appreciation for awards

TOKYO, Japan - Three of the five recipients of this year's Japan Art Association awards -- German painter Sigmar Polke (L), British architect Norman Foster (C) and Italian sculptor Giuliano Vangi -- speak at a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Oct. 22 ahead of the award ceremony on Oct. 23. (Kyodo)

5 Order of Culture recipients decorated by emperor

TOKYO, Japan - The five recipients of this year's Order of Culture -- electronics expert Hiroo Inokuchi (front L), painter Tadashi Moriya (2nd from L), sculptor Toshio Yodoi (C), social anthropologist Chie Nakane (2nd from R) and virologist Kumao Toyoshima (R) -- pose for a photo in the courtyard of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, the Culture Day national holiday after being awarded the order by Emperor Akihito.