Asahi Prize

Asahi Prize
The , 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
Ryōhei Koiso, painter, 1939
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
Haruko Sugimura, actress, 1968
Ryōtarō Shiba, novelist, 1982
Ineko Sata, writer, 1983
Yasushi Inoue, novelist, 1984
Seiji Ozawa, conductor, 1985
Osamu Tezuka, manga artist, 1987
Migishi Setsuko, artist, 1989
Seichō Matsumoto, novelist, 1989
Shuhei Fujisawa, novelist, 1993
Tadao Ando, architect, 1994 (1996 Praemium Imperiale winner) (1997 Royal Gold Medal winner)
Kenzaburō Ōe, novelist, 1994 (1994 Nobel Prize in Literature)
Shuntaro Tanikawa, poet, 1995
Yoji Yamada, film director, 1996
Donald Keene, writer, 1997
Yayoi Kusama, artist, 2000 (2006 Praemium Imperiale winner)
Hayao Miyazaki, film director, 2001 (2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature winner)
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, 2016
Jakucho Setouchi novelist, 2017
Yoko Tawada, writer, 2019
Haruomi Hosono. bass player, 2020
Daidō Moriyama, photographer, 2020
Machi Tawara, poet, 2021
Science
Yoshio Nishina, physicist, 1944
Shinichiro Tomonaga, physicist, 1946 (1965 Nobel Prize in Physics)
Shoichi Sakata, physicist, 1948
Tomizo Yoshida, pathologist, 1951
Kiyoshi Oka, mathematician, 1953
Leo Esaki, physicist, 1959 (1973 Nobel Prize in Physics)
Osamu Hayaishi, biochemist, 1964 (1986 Wolf Prize in Medicine)
Yoshimasa Hirata, chemist, 1965
Chushiro Hayashi, astrophysicist, 1965
Heisuke Hironaka, mathematician, 1967 (1970 Fields Medal)
Setsuro Ebashi, biomedical scientist, 1968 (1999 International Prize for Biology)
Reiji Okazaki, molecular biologist, 1970
Kimishige Ishizaka, immunologist, 1973
Kiyoshi Itô, mathematician, 1977 (2006 Gauss Prize)
Susumu Tonegawa, molecular biologist, 1981 (1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
Tasuku Honjo, immunologist, 1981 (2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
Hidesaburo Hanafusa, virologist, 1983
Masaki Watanabe, orthopedic surgeon, 1983
Yasutomi Nishizuka, biochemist, 1985 (1994 Wolf Prize in Medicine)
Motoo Kimura, biologist, 1986 (1992 Darwin Medal)
Kamiokande Project Team (Leader: Masatoshi Koshiba), 1987 (2002 Nobel Prize in Physics)
Masaki Kashiwara / Takahiro Kawai, mathematician, 1987
Hirotsugu Akaike, statistician, 1988
Tadamitsu Kishimoto, immunologist, 1988 (2009 Crafoord Prize)
Tadatsugu Taniguchi, immunologist, 1988
Tomisaku Kawasaki, pediatrician, 1989
Masato Sagawa, Metallurgist, 1990 (2012 Japan Prize)
Goro Shimura, mathematician, 1991
Ryoji Noyori, chemist, 1992 (2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
Masatoshi Takeichi, biologist, 1993
Makoto Kobayashi, physicist, 1994 (2008 Nobel Prize in Physics)
Toshihide Masukawa, physicist, 1994 (2008 Nobel Prize in Physics)
Nobutaka Hirokawa, neuroscientist, 1995
Syukuro Manabe, meteorologist, 1995 (2021 Nobel Prize in Physics)
Sumio Iijima, physicist, 1996
Shigekazu Nagata, molecular biologist, 1997
Super Kamiokande Project Team (Leader: Yoji Totsuka), 1998
Toshio Yanagida, biophysicist, 1998
Seiji Ogawa, physicist, 1999
Shuji Nakamura, material scientist, 2000 (2014 Nobel Prize in Physics)
Isamu Akasaki, material scientist, 2000 (2014 Nobel Prize in Physics)
Shizuo Akira, immunologist, 2005
Takao Kondo, biologist, 2006
Osamu Shimomura, chemist, 2006 (2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
Shinya Yamanaka, biomedical scientist, 2007 (2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
Yoshinori Ohsumi, biologist, 2008 (2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
Hayabusa Mission (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), 2010
Kenji Kosaka, psychiatrist, 2013
Kazutoshi Mori, molecular biologist, 2013 (2014 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research)
Hiroaki Mitsuya, virologist, 2014
Satoshi Ōmura, biochemist, 2014 (2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
Hiraku Nakajima, mathematician, 2016
Jaw-Shen Tsai, Taiwanese physicist, 2020
Takurō Mochizuki, mathematician, 2020 (2022 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics)
Keiko Torii, plant scientist, 2021
References
External links
Website of the Asahi Shimbun with information on the award winners sorted by year of award
Website of the Asahi Shimbun with information on the winners from 2001 to 2017
Website of the Asahi Shimbun with information on the winners from 1971 to 2000
Website of the Asahi Shimbun with information on the winners from 1929 to 1970
Website of the Asahi Shimbun with information on the winners from 1929 to recent years and a description of the achievements since 2000
Asahi Shimbun Company
Academic awards
Awards established in 1929
Visual arts awards
Japanese science and technology awards
1929 establishments in Japan