Congratulations to all the recipients of both the Order of Culture award and the Persons of Cultural Merit honor.
Japanese public broadcaster the NHK reported today the Reiwa 3 (2021) recipients of the Order of Culture award and the Persons of Cultural Merit honor, which will both be given out in a ceremony at a hotel in Tokyo on November 4.
Among the 9 people awarded the Order of Culture, including former professional basketballer Shigeo Nagashima, and Syukuro Manabe, a meteorologist and climatologist who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in using computers to model climate change, and the 21 Persons of Cultural Merit honor, was Moblie Suit Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino, and Wata no Kuni Hoshi manga creator Yumiko Oshima.