Order of Culture

National Oct 29, 2019

Nobel laureate Akira Yoshino among six selected for Japan's top cultural award

Akira Yoshino, one of three winners of this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, and five other people were selected as this year's recipients of the Order of Culture, the government said Tuesday. Others receiving Japan's top cultural award are kyogen actor Nomura Man, 89, political ...

National Oct 30, 2015

Two Nobel scientists to receive Order of Culture award

The government on Friday said Nobel laureates Satoshi Omura and Takaaki Kajita are among the seven individuals this year who will receive the Order of Culture, Japan's top award for contributions to culture. Omura, 80, was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, ...