Asahi Prize The Asahi Prize , established in 1929, is an award presented by the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun Foundation to honor individuals and groups that have made outstanding accomplishments in the fields of arts and academics and have greatly contributed to the development and progress of Japanese culture and society at large. The Asahi Prize was created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the foundation of Asahi Shimbun . It is recognized today as one of the most authoritative private awards.Prize winners Past prize winners include the following.Arts Tsubouchi Shōyō, novelist, 1929 Taikan Yokoyama, artist, 1933 Jigoro Kano, founder of judo, 1935 Shimazaki Toson, novelist, 1935 Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, novelist, 1948 NHK Symphony Orchestra , 1951 Mashiho Chiri, 1954 Eiji Yoshikawa, novelist, 1955 Shikō Munakata, artist, 1964 Jirō Osaragi, writer, 1964 Akira Kurosawa , film director , 1965 Seiji Ozawa, conductor, 1985 Ryōtarō Shiba, novelist, 1982 Yasushi Inoue, novelist, 1984 Osamu Tezuka, manga artist , 1987 Migishi Setsuko, artist, 1989 Seichō Matsumoto, novelist, 1989 Shuhei Fujisawa, novelist, 1993 Tadao Ando, architect, 1994 Kenzaburō Ōe, novelist, 1994 Shuntaro Tanikawa, poet, 1995 Yoji Yamada, film director, 1996 Donald Keene, writer, 1997 Yayoi Kusama, artist, 2000 Hayao Miyazaki, film director, 2001 Ai Nagai, playwright, 2005 Haruki Murakami, novelist, 2006 Shigeru Mizuki, manga artist, 2008 Tadanori Yokoo, artist, 2011 Takarazuka Revue, 2013 Tatsuya Nakadai, actor, 2013 Shigeru Ban, architect, 2014 Taichi Yamada, screenwriter, 2014 Tōta Kaneko, poet 2015 Kazushi Ono, conductor 2015 Moto Hagio, manga artist, 2016Science Yoshio Nishina, physicist , 1944 Shinichiro Tomonaga, physicist, 1946 Shoichi Sakata, physicist, 1948 Tomizo Yoshida, pathologist, 1951 Kiyoshi Oka, mathematician, 1953 Leo Esaki, physicist, 1959 Osamu Hayaishi, biochemist, 1964 Yoshimasa Hirata, chemist, 1965 Chushiro Hayashi, astrophysicist, 1965 Heisuke Hironaka, mathematician, 1967 Setsuro Ebashi, biomedical scientist , 1968 Reiji Okazaki, molecular biologist , 1970 Kimishige Ishizaka , immunologist, 1973 Kiyoshi Itô, mathematician, 1977 Susumu Tonegawa, molecular biologist, 1981 Tasuku Honjo, immunologist, 1981 Hidesaburo Hanafusa, virologist, 1983 Masaki Watanabe, orthopedic surgeon , 1983 Yasutomi Nishizuka, biochemist, 1985 Motoo Kimura, biologist, 1986 Kamiokande Project Team , 1987 Masaki Kashiwara / Takahiro Kawai , mathematician, 1987 Hirotsugu Akaike, statistician, 1988 Tadamitsu Kishimoto, immunologist, 1988 Tadatsugu Taniguchi, immunologist, 1988 Tomisaku Kawasaki, pediatrician, 1989 Masato Sagawa, Metallurgist, 1990 Goro Shimura, mathematician, 1991 Ryoji Noyori, chemist, 1992 Masatoshi Takeichi, biologist, 1993 Makoto Kobayashi, physicist, 1994 Toshihide Masukawa, physicist, 1994 Nobutaka Hirokawa , neuroscientist, 1995 Sumio Iijima, physicist, 1996 Shigekazu Nagata, molecular biologist, 1997 Super Kamiokande Project Team, 1998 Toshio Yanagida, biophysicist, 1998 Seiji Ogawa, physicist, 1999 Shuji Nakamura, material scientist , 2000 Isamu Akasaki , material scientist, 2000 Shizuo Akira, immunologist, 2005 Takao Kondo, biologist, 2006 Osamu Shimomura, chemist, 2006 Shinya Yamanaka, biomedical scientist, 2007 Yoshinori Ohsumi, biologist, 2008 Hayabusa Mission, 2010 Kenji Kosaka, psychiatrist, 2013 Kazutoshi Mori, molecular biologist, 2013 Hiroaki Mitsuya, virologist, 2014 Satoshi Ōmura, biochemist, 2014 Hiraku Nakajima, mathematician, 2016
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