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No recipients of prestigious Japanese literary awards

TOKYO, Japan, July 17 Kyodo - Video taken in Tokyo on July 16, 2025, shows a notice board stating there are no recipients of the Akutagawa and Naoki literary prizes for the first half of 2025. It was the first time in 27 and a half years that both of the prestigious prizes were not awarded. (Kyodo)

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No recipients of prestigious Japanese literary awards

Photo taken in Tokyo on July 16, 2025, shows a notice board stating there are no recipients of the Akutagawa and Naoki literary prizes for the first half of 2025. It was the first time in 27 and a half years that both of the prestigious prizes were not awarded.

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No recipients of prestigious Japanese literary awards

Photo taken in Tokyo on July 16, 2025, shows a notice board stating there are no recipients of the Akutagawa and Naoki literary prizes for the first half of 2025. It was the first time in 27 and a half years that both of the prestigious prizes were not awarded.

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No recipients of prestigious Japanese literary awards

Photo taken in Tokyo on July 16, 2025, shows a notice board stating there are no recipients of the Akutagawa and Naoki literary prizes for the first half of 2025. It was the first time in 27 and a half years that both of the prestigious prizes were not awarded.

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No recipients of prestigious Japanese literary awards

Photo taken in Tokyo on July 16, 2025, shows a notice board stating there are no recipients of the Akutagawa and Naoki literary prizes for the first half of 2025. It was the first time in 27 and a half years that both of the prestigious prizes were not awarded.

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Ramon Magsaysay Award

Kenichi Yoda (C), director of Studio Ghibli, co-founded by Japanese anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, attends a ceremony of the Ramon Magsaysay Award on behalf of Miyazaki, one of the five recipients in 2024, in Manila on Nov. 16, 2024. The organization behind the award -- named after the Philippines' seventh president and known as "Asia's Nobel Prize" -- said in August that the 83-year-old makes complex issues like environmental destruction and conflict understandable to children in his works, including the Oscar-winning films "The Boy and the Heron" and "Spirited Away."

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Gov't to cut welfare benefits

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Welfare minister Norihisa Tamura answers reporters' questions in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 16, 2013. Tamura said that welfare benefits for the poor will be reduced as a whole, reflecting a government panel's finding that some recipients are receiving more money than the average living costs of low-income workers.

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Recipients of three special prizes at New Year basho

TOKYO, Japan - Recipients of three special prizes the Japan Sumo Association gives to makuuchi division wrestlers on the final day of a tournament show off their trophies for the prizes on Jan. 24, 2010. (From L to R) No. 16 maegashira Toyohibiki, who earned his third Fighting Spirit Prize, Estonian sekiwake Baruto, the Outstanding Performance Prize winner, and Aminishiki, the sixth-ranked maegashira who won the Technique Prize.

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Kawakami wins Akutagawa award, Sakuraba gets Naoki Prize

TOKYO, Japan - Mieko Kawakami (R), winner of the 138th Akutagawa Prize, and Kazuki Sakuraba (L), winner of the Naoki Prize, pose for photographers at Tokyo Kaikan in Tokyo on Jan. 16 after they were declared recipients of the two prestigious literary awards. Kawakami, 31, won the Akutagawa Prize for her work ''Chichi to Ran'' (Breasts and Egg) and Sakuraba, 36, received the Naoki Prize for her work ''Watashi no Otoko'' (My Man)

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Ceremony held to honor 16 as Persons of Cultural Merit

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Tanaka (L), one of 16 recipients of this year's Persons of Cultural Merit awards, receives a citation from Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Nov. 5. Tanaka, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was also awarded this year's Order of Culture on Nov. 3.

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Winners of Akutagawa, Naoki literary awards announced

(From L to R) Akira Higashiyama, winner of the Naoki Prize, a literary award for popular fiction, and Naoki Matayoshi and Keisuke Hada, recipients of the Akutagawa Prize, a literary award for up-and-coming novelists, pose for photos at a hotel in Tokyo on July 16, 2015. Matayoshi, a popular 35-year-old comedian, won the award for his debut novel "Hibana" (Sparks), which already has sold about 640,000 copies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Woman in news: Operator of cheap inns for needy in Tokyo's Sanya area

Photo taken on Oct. 16, 2015, shows Magokoro Yoshihira, who runs three hostels in Tokyo's Sanya district for welfare recipients and other underprivileged people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kawakami wins Akutagawa award, Sakuraba gets Naoki Prize

TOKYO, Japan - Mieko Kawakami (R), winner of the 138th Akutagawa Prize, and Kazuki Sakuraba (L), winner of the Naoki Prize, pose for photographers at Tokyo Kaikan in Tokyo on Jan. 16 after they were declared recipients of the two prestigious literary awards. Kawakami, 31, won the Akutagawa Prize for her work ''Chichi to Ran'' (Breasts and Egg) and Sakuraba, 36, received the Naoki Prize for her work ''Watashi no Otoko'' (My Man) (Kyodo)

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Recipients of three special prizes at New Year basho

TOKYO, Japan - Recipients of three special prizes the Japan Sumo Association gives to makuuchi division wrestlers on the final day of a tournament show off their trophies for the prizes on Jan. 24, 2010. (From L to R) No. 16 maegashira Toyohibiki, who earned his third Fighting Spirit Prize, Estonian sekiwake Baruto, the Outstanding Performance Prize winner, and Aminishiki, the sixth-ranked maegashira who won the Technique Prize. (Kyodo)

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Ceremony held to honor 16 as Persons of Cultural Merit

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Tanaka (L), one of 16 recipients of this year's Persons of Cultural Merit awards, receives a citation from Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Nov. 5. Tanaka, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was also awarded this year's Order of Culture on Nov. 3. (Kyodo)