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Japan culture award

KYOTO, Japan - Stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka, joint winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine, speaks in Kyoto on Oct. 30, 2012. The Kyoto University professor was selected among the six recipients of Japan's top cultural award for the year.

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Japan culture award

TOKYO, Japan - Art critic Shuji Takashina is pictured in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2012. He was selected on Oct. 30 among the six recipients of the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, for the year.

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Japan culture award

KYOTO, Japan - Stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka, joint winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine, speaks in Kyoto on Oct. 30, 2012. The Kyoto University professor was selected among the six recipients of Japan's top cultural award for the year.

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Japan culture award

TOKYO, Japan - Film director Yoji Yamada is pictured in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2012. The "It's Tough Being a Man" series director was selected on Oct. 30 among the six recipients of the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, for the year.

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U.N. forest hero

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's fisherman-turned-environmentalist Shigeatsu Hatakeyama holds the English version of his book before a ceremony for six recipients including him of the United Nations Forum on Forests' Forest Hero award at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Feb. 9, 2012. Hatakeyama, from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, is founder and chairman of Mori wa Umi no Koibito (Forests are Lovers of the Sea), a nonprofit environmental conservation organization. Kesennuma is one of the areas hardest-hit by the March 2011 tsunami.

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7 Japanese awarded Russian medals for promotion of culture

TOKYO, Japan - Seven Japanese including simultaneous Japanese-Russian interpreter Yuki Yoshioka were awarded the Pushkin Medal Jan. 29 for their contributions to the promotion of Russian language and culture in a ceremony at the Russian Embassy in Tokyo. Photo shows Russian Ambassador to Japan Mikhail Bely (C) and six award recipients posing for photos at the Russian Embassy in Tokyo. Ichiro Fujimori, chief of the Moscow bureau for the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper, was also awarded but could not attend the ceremony.

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6 receive Order of Culture award

TOKYO, Japan - Six recipients of this year's Order of Culture pose for photos at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3 after being decorated by Emperor Akihito. (From L to R) are economist Ryutaro Komiya, glass-work artist Kyohei Fujita, film director Kaneto Shindo, aerospace engineer Jiro Kondo, novelist Sonoko Sugimoto and Nobel chemistry prize laureate Koichi Tanaka.

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6 receive Order of Culture award

TOKYO, Japan - Six recipients of this year's Order of Culture pose for photos at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3 after being decorated by Emperor Akihito. (From L to R) are economist Ryutaro Komiya, glass-work artist Kyohei Fujita, film director Kaneto Shindo, aerospace engineer Jiro Kondo, novelist Sonoko Sugimoto and Nobel chemistry prize laureate Koichi Tanaka. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Kuma receives Global Award for Sustainable Architecture

Kengo Kuma, designer of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics main stadium, attends the award ceremony of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris on May 9, 2016, as one of the six recipients from five countries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. forest hero

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's fisherman-turned-environmentalist Shigeatsu Hatakeyama holds the English version of his book before a ceremony for six recipients including him of the United Nations Forum on Forests' Forest Hero award at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Feb. 9, 2012. Hatakeyama, from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, is founder and chairman of Mori wa Umi no Koibito (Forests are Lovers of the Sea), a nonprofit environmental conservation organization. Kesennuma is one of the areas hardest-hit by the March 2011 tsunami. (Kyodo)

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7 Japanese awarded Russian medals for promotion of culture

TOKYO, Japan - Seven Japanese including simultaneous Japanese-Russian interpreter Yuki Yoshioka were awarded the Pushkin Medal Jan. 29 for their contributions to the promotion of Russian language and culture in a ceremony at the Russian Embassy in Tokyo. Photo shows Russian Ambassador to Japan Mikhail Bely (C) and six award recipients posing for photos at the Russian Embassy in Tokyo. Ichiro Fujimori, chief of the Moscow bureau for the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper, was also awarded but could not attend the ceremony. (Kyodo)

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2 Nobel winners, 4 others receive top cultural awards

TOKYO, Japan - Novelist Seiko Tanabe, representing six recipients of the Order of Culture, delivers a speech after they received the top awards from Emperor Akihito during a Culture Day ceremony at the Imperial Palace on Nov. 3. She expressed the recipients' appreciation for receiving the top awards and vowed to continue to do their best in their respective fields. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Imperial Palace ceremony for Order of Culture recipients

Six recipients of this year's Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, pose for a photo at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2019, after attending the award ceremony. The six (from L) are Akira Yoshino, 71, a co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, mathematical engineering scholar Shunichi Amari, 83, photographer Takeyoshi Tanuma, 90, Kyogen actor Nomura Man, 89, political scientist Takeshi Sasaki, 77, and immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi, 68. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Imperial Palace ceremony for Order of Culture recipients

Six recipients of this year's Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, pose for a photo with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2019, after attending the award ceremony. The six (from L) are Akira Yoshino, 71, a co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, mathematical engineering scholar Shunichi Amari, 83, photographer Takeyoshi Tanuma, 90, Kyogen actor Nomura Man, 89, political scientist Takeshi Sasaki, 77, and immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi, 68. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Imperial Palace ceremony for Order of Culture recipients

Japanese Emperor Naruhito speaks at a ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2019, for six recipients of the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Imperial Palace ceremony for Order of Culture recipients

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (L) speaks at a ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2019, for six recipients of the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese scholar receives 2017 Magsaysay Award

Japan's Yoshiaki Ishizawa holds a commemorative gift after receiving the Ramon Magsaysay Award, one of Asia's highest honors, in Manila, the Philippines, on Aug. 31, 2017. Ishizawa, 79, a former president of Sophia University who spent decades helping to restore Cambodia's Angkor Wat, is one of the year's six recipients of the prestigious honor regarded as Asia's Nobel Prize. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo