Selected Recipients
This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.- Ishimura Uzaemon XVII (2000), Kabuki actor.
- Makoto Asashima, developmental biologist.
- Hisao Domoto, abstract painter
- Toru Funamura, composer.
- Toshi Ichiyanagi, composer.
- Akira Isogai, bio-organic chemistry researcher.
- Marius Berthus Jansen (1999), historian.
- Tota Kaneko, haiku poet.
- Donald Keene (2002), educator.
- Taiho Koki, sumo wrestler
- Asami Maki, choreographer.
- Ito Masami (2000), judge.
- Makoto Nagao, information engineering.
- Tomijuro Nakamura, Kabuki actor.
- Tatsuo Nishida, linguist.
- Man Nomura, Kyogen actor.
- Sayume Okuda, craftswoman.
- Seiji Ozawa (2001), conductor, musician
- Hiroyuki Sakaki, electronic engineer.
- Ryotaro Shiba (1991), writer.
- Naoya Shiga (1951), author.
- Koichi Shimoda, physicist.
- Kiichi Sumikawa, sculptor.
- Nakamura Tomijyuro V (2008), Kabuki actor.
- Kenichi Tominaga, economic sociologist.
- Susumu Tonegawa (1983), medical researcher.
- Shotaro Yasuoka (2001), writer.
- Hideki Yukawa (1951), physicist.
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