Person of Cultural Merit

System of recognition

Order of Culture

Persons of Cultural Merit

Selected recipients

• Makoto Asashima, developmental biologist.
• Seiji Ozawa, conductor.
• Hisao Domoto, abstract painter.
• Toru Funamura, composer.
• Toshi Ichiyanagi, composer.
• Akira Isogai, bio-organic chemistry researcher.
• Tota Kaneko, haiku poet.
• Asami Maki, choreographer.
• Makoto Nagao, information engineering.
• Tomijuro Nakamura, Kabuki actor.
• Tatsuo Nishida, linguist.
• Man Nomura, Kyogen actor.
• Sayume Okuda, craftswoman.
• Hiroyuki Sakaki, electronic engineer.
• Koichi Shimoda, physicist.
• Kiichi Sumikawa, sculptor.
• Kenichi Tominaga, economic sociologist.
• Naoya Shiga, author.
• Hideki Yukawa, physicist.
• Masuji Ibuse, author.
• Haruko Sugimura, actress.
• Susumu Tonegawa, medical researcher.
• Hisaya Morishige, actor.
• Fuku Akino, Nihonga painter.
• Ryotaro Shiba, writer.
• Isuzu Yamada, actress.
• Migishi Setsuko, painter.
• Mitsuko Mori, actress.
• Koji Nakanishi, chemist.
• Marius Berthus Jansen, historian.
• Ito Masami, judge.
• Ishimura Uzaemon XVII, Kabuki actor.
• Shotaro Yasuoka, writer.
• Donald Keene, educator.
• Shozo Shimada, artist.
• Ken Takakura, actor.
• Tatsuya Nakadai, actor.
• Makoto Asashima, biologist.
• Nakamura Tomijyuro V, Kabuki actor.
• Taiho Koki, sumo wrestler
• Yoshihide Kozai, astronomer.
• Sayuri Yoshinaga, actress.
• Hideji Ōtaki, actor.
• Matsumoto Kōshirō IX, Kabuki actor.
• Hayao Miyazaki, film director, animator, manga artist, producer, and screenwriter.
• Shun'ichi Amari, mathematician.
• Hiroko Takenishi, author.
• Mitsumasa Anno, artist, children's author.
• Nobutaka Hirokawa, neuroscientist and cell biologist.
• Tamio Yamakawa, biochemist.
• Tsuneko Okazaki, molecular biologist.
• Tsumura Setsuko, novelist.
• Nakamura Kichiemon II, Kabuki actor.
• Mutsuo Takahashi, poet.
• Hisashi Yamamoto, chemist.
• Moto Hagio, manga artist.
• Shigeru Miyamoto, video game developer.