John Cornell's scholarship was highly regarded in Japan as well as in the United States, and he was honored at various levels of society. In 1995 OHK, the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation, did a special television program on John's anthropological work, along with that of his colleagues Edward Norbeck and Robert Smith. In 1980 and 1981, after giving some public lectures in Japan while he was conducting his restudy of Matsunagi, he donated the honoraria he received to the villagers. The chime, which is located at the Civic Center, rings at noon and 6 p.m. every day, and is called the Cornell Chime. It serves to remind everyone of the American ethnographer who dedicated himself to understanding the local culture.
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