Order of Culture - Selected Recipients

Selected Recipients

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• Akira Ifukube (1914–2006). A composer of classical music and film scores.
• Ryukichi Inada (1874–1950). A physician, a prominent academic, and bacteriologist researcher.
• Hideo Kobayashi (1902–1983). An author, who established literary criticism as an independent art form in Japan.
• Hantaro Nagaoka (1865–1950). A physicist and a pioneer of Japanese physics in the early Meiji period.
• Nakamura Kichiemon I (1896–1954). 1st kabuki actor to receive this honor.
• Nakamura Utaemon VI (1917–2001). A famous kabuki actor, known for his oyama roles.
• Kinjiro Okabe (1896–1984). An electrical engineering researcher and professor who developed the split-anode magnetron.
• Jirō Osaragi (1897–1973). A popular writer in Showa period.
• Junjiro Takakusu (1866–1945). An academic, an advocate for expanding higher education opportunities, and an internationally known Buddhist scholar.
• Kenjiro Takayanagi (1899–1990). A pioneer in the development of television.
• Morohashi Tetsuji (1883–1982). An important figure in the world of Japanese studies and Sinology.
• Susumu Tonegawa (born 1939). A scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987.
• Eiji Yoshikawa (1892–1962). A historical novelist.