Mainichi Publishing Culture Award

The Mainichi Publishing Culture Award (毎日出版文化賞, Mainichi Shuppan Bunka Shō) is an annual award given to distinguished literary works and activities in the sectors literature and art, humanities and social science, natural science, and encyclopedic work, plus a special award. It was founded in 1947 and is sponsored by the Mainichi Newspapers Co., the publishing house of the Mainichi Shimbun.[1]

Recipients (selected)

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1947
1948
1951
1952
  • Literature and art award for Hiroshi Noma for Shinkū chitai
1954
  • Literature and art award for Sue Sumii for Yoru ake asa ake
1955
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
  • Literature and art award for Kazuo Hirotsu for Nengatsu no ahioto
1964
  • Literature and art award for Morio Kita for Nireke no hitobito (The House of Nire)
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
  • Literature and art award for Jūkichi Uno for Shingeki tanoshi kanashi
1972
1973
  • Literature and art award for Akira Abe for Sennen
1974
1976
1977
1978
  • Literature and art award for Chikao Tanaka for Gekiteki buntairon josetsu
1994
1995
  • Literature and art award for Tadao Satō for Nihon eiga-shi
2001
  • Literature and art award for Taeko Tomioka for Arikuchi Shinobu nōto
2004
2005
2007
2009
2020
  • Humanities and social science award for Takehiko Kariya for Oitsuita Kindai Keita Kindai (Who killed Japan's Modernity? What Comes after 'Catch-Up?')[3]

References

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  1. ^ "第72回毎日出版文化賞決まる (The 72nd Mainichi Publication Culture Award is decided)". Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Shuichi Yoshida". Melbourne University Publishing. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Takehiko Kariya awarded humanities and social sciences book prize". Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. Retrieved 15 August 2021.