The Japan Foundation Awards Recipients, Presentation ceremony and Commemorative events in previous years

1996 - 2024

2024

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	SHIOTA Chiharu (Artist) [Japan] Association of Japanese Language Teachers of Mongolia [Mongolia] The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC) [U.K.]

2023

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	MIYAGI Satoshi (Stage Director/General Artistic Director of the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center) [Japan] OGAWA Yoko (Novelist) [Japan] Peruvian Japanese Association/Asociación Peruano Japonesa (APJ) [Peru]

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The 50th Japan Foundation Awards ―Culture Transcending Borders― <1> Report for 2023 Presentation Ceremony for the Japan Foundation Awards | The Japan Foundation Web Magazine Wochi Kochi
The 50th Japan Foundation Awards ―Culture Transcending Borders― <2> A Commemorative Talk session by Miyagi Satoshi and Miyagishima Haruka (Part1) | The Japan Foundation Web Magazine Wochi Kochi
The 50th Japan Foundation Awards ―Culture Transcending Borders― <3> A Commemorative Talk session by Miyagi Satoshi and Miyagishima Haruka (Part2) | The Japan Foundation Web Magazine Wochi Kochi
The 50th Japan Foundation Awards ―Culture Transcending Borders― <4> Peruvian Japanese Association - Award Commemorative Lecture | The Japan Foundation Web Magazine Wochi Kochi
The 50th Japan Foundation Awards ―Culture Transcending Borders― <5> A Commemorative Talk Session by Ogawa Yoko and Ozaki Mariko | The Japan Foundation Web Magazine Wochi Kochi

2022

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Robert LEPAGE (Actor, Playwright, theatre and movie Director) [Canada] Korean Japanese Association [Korea] Goenawan Mohamad (Poet, Writer and Painter) [Indonesia]

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2021

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	KOREEDA Hirokazu（Film Director）[Japan] MIYATA Mayumi（Shō (Japanese wind instrument) performer）[Japan] Faculty of Japanese Language and Culture, University of Languages and International Studies - Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) / Faculty of Japanese, Foreign Trade University / Department of Japanese Studies, Hanoi University [Vietnam] Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit (Professor, Free University of Berlin) [Germany]

Recipients

The Japan Foundation Awards

2019

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Shuntaro Tanikawa (Poet)［Japan］ Association of Indonesian Alumni From Japan (PERSADA)［Indonesia］ Ewa Pałasz-Rutkowska (Professor, University of Warsaw)［Poland］

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2018

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Yoko Tawada (Poet and Writer) [Japan] Toshio Hosokawa (Composer) [Japan] Spanish-Japanese Cultural Center of the University of Salamanca [Spain]

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2017

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Alexandra Munroe (Senior Curator, Asian Art, and Senior Advisor, Global Arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) [U.S.A.] Frederik L. Schodt（writer, translator, interpreter）[U.S.A.] Andrej Bekeš (Emiritus Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Ljubljana,) [Slovenia]

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2016

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Cai Guo-Qiang (Artist) [China] Susan J. Pharr (Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University) [U.S.A.] Centro Brasileiro de Língua Japonesa(CBLJ) [Brazil]

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2015

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Wang Yong (Professor/Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, Zhejiang Gongshang University) [China] Isao Tomita (Composer) [Japan] Sibiu International Theatre Festival [Romania]

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2014

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Sankyo Yanagiya [Japan] Peter Drysdale (Professor Emeritus, Australian National University) [Australia] Japanese Philology Department, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University [Russia]

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2013

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Akira Iriye (Professor Emeritus, Harvard University) [Japan] SANKAI JUKU [Japan] Technology Promotion Association (Thailand-Japan) [Thailand]

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2012

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Department of Japanese Language and Civilization, National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) [France] Haruki Murakami (Writer/Translator) [Japan] Irene Hirano Inouye, President, U.S.-Japan Council [U.S.A.]

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2011

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	TAMBUCO Percussion Ensemble [Mexico] Department of Japanese and Japanese Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University [Egypt] Augustin Berque [France]

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2010

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Tadao Sato (Film Critic) [Japan] Savitri Vishwanathan (Former Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Delhi) [India] Ben-Ami Shillony (Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) [Israel]

2009

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Boris Akunin (Writer) [Russia] Alliance of Associations of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) [U.S.A] James Arthur Stockwin (Former director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford) [U.K.]

2008

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Marco MÜLLER (Director of Venice International Film Festival ) [Italy] Angela HONDRU (Professor of Japanese Literature and Civilization, Hyperion University) [Romania] Kenneth B. PYLE (The Henry M. Jackson Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Washington) [U.S.A.]

2007

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Royall TYLER (Former Professor and Head of the Japan Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University) [Australia]
The Japan Foundation Special Prizes	KITAGAWA Fram (Art Director/ Chairman, Art Front Gallery Co./ General Artistic Director of Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation/ Director of Niigata City Art Museum/ Professor, Joshibi University of Art and Design) [Japan] LEVY Hideo (Novelist; Professor, Hosei University) [U.S.A.] Ayşe Selçuk ESENBEL (Professor, Bosphorus University; President, Japanese Studies Association) [Turkey]

2006

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Joe & Etsuko Price (Directors, The Shin’enKan Foundation) [U.S.A.]
The Japan Foundation Special Prizes	Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Organizing Committee [Japan] Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculty of Asian and African Studies [Russia] Kim Yongdeok (Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University) [R.O.K.]

2005

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Mr. Hayao Miyazaki (Animated Film Director) [Japan]
The Japan Foundation Special Prizes	Philippine Educational Theater Association [Philippines] China Japanese Education Association [china] Dr. Tabassum Kashmiri (Former Foreign Instructor, Osaka University of Foreign Studies) [Pakistan]

2004

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Ms. Toshiko Akiyoshi (Jazz Pianist, Jazz Music Composer) [Japan]
The Japan Foundation Special Prizes	Mr. James Quandt (Senior Programmer, Cinematheque Ontario) [Canada] Prof. Yi, Dok Bong (Professor of Dongduk Women’s University) [Korea] Prof. Kurayoshi Takara (Professor of the University of the Ryukyus ) [Japan]

2003

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Dr. Josef Kreiner (Director, Institute of Japanese Studies, The University of Bonn) [Austria] Dr. Yoshiaki Ishizawa (Professor, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University) [Japan]
The Japan Foundation Special Prizes	Mr. Mikio Kato (Trustee and Executive Director, International House of Japan) [Japan] Far Eastern National University Oriental Studies Institute [Russia] Turkish Japanese Foundation [Turkey]

2002

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Makoto Ooka (poet) [Japan] Gerald L. Curtis (Burgess Professor of Political Science, Columbia University) [U.S.A.]
The Japan Foundation Special Prizes	The Old Japan Students' Association, Thailand (OJSAT) [Thailand] "Japanese Mothers for Foreign Students" Movement of the Tokyo YWCA [Japan] Warsaw University, Oriental Studies Institute, Department of Japanese and Korean Studies [Poland]

2001

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	William Gerard Beasley, C.B.E (Emeritus Professor of the History of the Far East, University of London [U.K] Ikuo Hirayama, Artist [Japan]
The Japan Foundation Special Prizes	Kosta Balabanov (President of the Society for Macedonian-JapaneseFriendship and Cooperation, Honorary Consul-General of Japan in Skopje ) [Macedonia] Naoyuki Miura (President, Artistic Director of Music From Japan Inc. ) [Japan] The Berliner Festspiele [Germany]

2000

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Chi Myon Kwan (Director,Institute of Japanese Studies, The Hallym Academy of Sciences, Hallym University ) [Korea] Yoneo Ishii (President, Kanda University of International Studies) [Japan]
The Japan Foundation Special Prizes	Willy F. Vande Walle (Department Chair Section of Japanese Studies, Department of Oriental and Slavonic Studies,The Catholic University of Leuven) [Belgium] Nissim Tal (Director General The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa Museums) [Israel] Yuzo Kondo (Chairman of the Daido Life Foundation ) [Japan]

1999

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Frank B. Gibney (President, The Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College) [U.S.A.] Wolfgang Sawallisch (Conductor, Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra Honorary Conductor Laureate of the NHK Symphony Orchestra) [Germany]
The Japan Foundation Special Prizes	Ahmet Mete Tuncoku (Professor, Middle East Technical University) [Turkey] Tadashi Yamamoto (President, Japan Center for International Exchange) [Japan] Japanese American National Museum [U.S.A.]

1998

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Robert Anthony Scalapino (Robson Research Professor of Government Emeritus,University of California at Berkeley) [U.S.A.] Ikuma Dan (Composer, Member of the Art Academy of Japan) [Japan]
The Japan Foundation Special Prizes	Thomas Erdos (Artistic Counselor) [France] Pusan Korea-Japan Cultural Exchange Association [Korea] Suntory Foundation [Japan]

1997

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Sun Ping-hua (President, The China-Japan Friendship Association) [China] Rogger Goepper (Professor, University of Cologne) [Germany]
The Japan Foundation Special Prizes	Kai Nieminen (Translator of Japanese Literature, Japanologist, Writer) [Finland] Center of Japanese Art and Technology "Manggha" in Cracow [Poland.]

1996

Recipients
The Japan Foundation Awards	Lee O-Young (Chair Professor, Ewha Women's University) [Korea] Ezra F. Vogel (Director, Fairbank Center for East-Asia Research, Harvard University) [U.S.A.]
The Japan Foundation Special Prizes	Midori Goto (Violinist / Founder and President of the Midori Foundation) [Japan] Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Columbia University[U.S.A.]

1973-1995

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