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Asahi Prize

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Country
  
Japan

First awarded
  
1929

Awarded for
  
Achievement in science or arts that has made a great contribution to culture or society

Presented by
  
Asahi shimbun and Asahi Shimbun Foundation

Official website
  
www.asahi.com/shimbun/award/asahi/english.html

The Asahi Prize (朝日賞, Asahi Shō), established in 1929, is an award presented by the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun Foundation to honor individuals and groups that have made outstanding accomplishments in the fields of arts and academics and have greatly contributed to the development and progress of Japanese culture and society at large.

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The Asahi Prize was created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the foundation of Asahi Shimbun. It is recognized today as one of the most authoritative private awards.

Prize winners

Past prize winners include the following.

Arts

  • Tsubouchi Shōyō, novelist, 1929
  • Taikan Yokoyama, artist, 1933
  • Jigoro Kano, founder of judo, 1935
  • Shimazaki Toson, novelist, 1935
  • Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, novelist, 1948
  • NHK Symphony Orchestra, 1951
  • Eiji Yoshikawa, novelist, 1955
  • Shikō Munakata, artist, 1964
  • Jirō Osaragi, writer, 1964
  • Akira Kurosawa, film director, 1965 (1951 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film winner) (1990 Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement winner) (1992 Praemium Imperiale winner)
  • Seiji Ozawa, conductor, 1985 (1982 Grammy Award winner)
  • Ryōtarō Shiba, novelist, 1982
  • Yasushi Inoue, novelist, 1984
  • Osamu Tezuka, manga artist, 1987
  • Seichō Matsumoto, novelist, 1989
  • Shuhei Fujisawa, novelist, 1993
  • Tadao Ando, architect, 1994 (1996 Praemium Imperiale winner) (1997 Royal Gold Medal winner)
  • Kenzaburō Ōe, novelist, 1994 (1994 Nobel Prize in Literature)
  • Shuntaro Tanikawa, poet, 1995
  • Yoji Yamada, film director, 1996
  • Donald Keene, writer, 1997
  • Yayoi Kusama, artist, 2000 (2006 Praemium Imperiale winner)
  • Hayao Miyazaki, film director, 2001 (2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature winner)
  • Ai Nagai, playwright, 2005
  • Haruki Murakami, novelist, 2006
  • Shigeru Mizuki, manga artist, 2008
  • Tadanori Yokoo, artist, 2011
  • Takarazuka Revue, 2013
  • Tatsuya Nakadai, actor, 2013
  • Shigeru Ban, architect, 2014
  • Taichi Yamada, screenwriter, 2014

    • Science

  • Yoshio Nishina, physicist, 1944
  • Shinichiro Tomonaga, physicist, 1946 (1965 Nobel Prize in Physics)
  • Shoichi Sakata, physicist, 1948
  • Tomizo Yoshida, pathologist, 1951
  • Kiyoshi Oka, mathematician, 1953
  • Leo Esaki, physicist, 1959 (1973 Nobel Prize in Physics)
  • Osamu Hayaishi, biochemist, 1964 (1986 Wolf Prize in Medicine)
  • Yoshimasa Hirata, chemist, 1965
  • Chushiro Hayashi, astrophysicist, 1965
  • Heisuke Hironaka, mathematician, 1967 (1970 Fields Medal)
  • Setsuro Ebashi, biomedical scientist, 1968 (1999 International Prize for Biology)
  • Reiji Okazaki, molecular biologist, 1970
  • Kimishige Ishizaka, immunologist, 1973
  • Kiyoshi Itô, mathematician, 1977 (2006 Gauss Prize)
  • Susumu Tonegawa, molecular biologist, 1981 (1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
  • Tasuku Honjo, immunologist, 1981
  • Hidesaburo Hanafusa, virologist, 1983
  • Masaki Watanabe, orthopedic surgeon, 1983
  • Yasutomi Nishizuka, biochemist, 1985 (1994 Wolf Prize in Medicine)
  • Motoo Kimura, biologist, 1986 (1992 Darwin Medal)
  • Kamiokande Project Team (Leader: Masatoshi Koshiba), 1987 (2002 Nobel Prize in Physics)
  • Hirotsugu Akaike, statistician, 1988
  • Tadamitsu Kishimoto, immunologist, 1988 (2009 Crafoord Prize)
  • Tadatsugu Taniguchi, immunologist, 1988
  • Tomisaku Kawasaki, pediatrician, 1989
  • Masato Sagawa, Metallurgist, 1990 (2012 Japan Prize)
  • Goro Shimura, mathematician, 1991
  • Ryoji Noyori, chemist, 1992 (2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
  • Masatoshi Takeichi, biologist, 1993
  • Makoto Kobayashi, physicist, 1994 (2008 Nobel Prize in Physics)
  • Toshihide Masukawa, physicist, 1994 (2008 Nobel Prize in Physics)
  • Nobutaka Hirokawa, neuroscientist, 1995
  • Sumio Iijima, physicist, 1996
  • Shigekazu Nagata, molecular biologist, 1997
  • Super Kamiokande Project Team (Leader: Yoji Totsuka), 1998
  • Toshio Yanagida, biophysicist, 1998
  • Seiji Ogawa, physicist, 1999
  • Shuji Nakamura, material scientist, 2000 (2014 Nobel Prize in Physics)
  • Isamu Akasaki, material scientist, 2000 (2014 Nobel Prize in Physics)
  • Shizuo Akira, immunologist, 2005
  • Takao Kondo, biologist, 2006
  • Osamu Shimomura, chemist, 2006 (2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
  • Shinya Yamanaka, biomedical scientist, 2007 (2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
  • Yoshinori Ohsumi, biologist, 2008
  • Hayabusa Mission (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), 2010
  • Kenji Kosaka, psychiatrist, 2013
  • Kazutoshi Mori, molecular biologist, 2013
  • Hiroaki Mitsuya, virologist, 2014
  • Satoshi Ōmura, biochemist, 2014 (2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)

    • References

    Asahi Prize Wikipedia
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