• The Osaka Culture Prize (大阪文化賞, Osaka Bunka Shou) is an annual award presented by the Osaka prefectural government to groups or individuals who have made...
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    Osaka Prefecture (大阪府, Ōsaka-fu, pronounced [oːsaka ɸɯ]) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Osaka Prefecture has a population...
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    81917; 135.52667 Osaka University (大阪大学, Ōsaka daigaku), abbreviated as OU or Handai (阪大), is a national research university in Osaka, Japan. The university...
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    Naomi Osaka (Japanese: 大坂 なおみ, Hepburn: Ōsaka Naomi, Japanese pronunciation: [oːsaka naomi], born October 16, 1997) is a Japanese professional tennis player...
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    Seiko Tanabe (category Writers from Osaka)
    Senmon Gakkō (now Osaka Shoin Women's University). Author of numerous novels, she won the Akutagawa Prize, Yomiuri Prize, and Asahi Prize, and received the...
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    Kin'yūdō (The way of the Ōsaka loan shark) Special Award: Shotaro Ishinomori for the long years of contribution to manga Grand Prize: Naoki Urasawa for Monster...
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    Katsura Bunshi VI (category People from Sakai, Osaka)
    SANpo, Katsura SANpu, Katsura SANpatsu, and so on. 2006 Osaka Culture PrizeCulture Special Prize "真田丸". Haiyaku Jiten. Retrieved 8 August 2024. Japan...
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    Hiroshi Ishiguro (category Osaka University alumni)
    2003.4: Professor of Osaka University 2011 Osaka Culture Prize Prize for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and...
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  • conducting at the Musikhochschule Hannover since 2000. 2006 Osaka Culture Prize Special Arts Prize Dominick Argento: Casa Guidi, Capriccio for Clarinet and...
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    Tadamitsu Kishimoto (category People from Tondabayashi, Osaka)
    Behring-Kitasato Prize from Hoechst Japan, 1982 Osaka Science Prize, 1983 Erwin von Bälz Prize, 1986 Takeda Prize, 1988 Asahi Prize, 1988 Prize of The Japanese...
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    Ryōtarō Shiba (category Writers from Osaka)
    Sima). He studied Mongolian at the Osaka School of Foreign Languages (now the School of Foreign Studies at Osaka University) and began his career as...
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    Tadao Ando (category People from Minato, Osaka)
    the winner of the 1995 Pritzker Prize. Ando was born a few minutes before his twin brother in 1941 in Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan. At the age of two, his family...
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    Mieko Kawakami (category Writers from Osaka)
    writer and poet from Osaka. Her work has won prestigious Japanese literary awards in several genres, including the 138th Akutagawa Prize for her novella Chichi...
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    school is operated by the Osaka Prefectural Board of Education. It has been named a model school by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and...
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  • The UNESCO/Bilbao Prize for the Promotion of a Culture of Human Rights, created in 1978 as the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education to mark the 30th...
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    Manzai (category Culture in Osaka)
    Yoshimoto Kogyo, a large entertainment conglomerate based in Osaka, introduced Osaka-style manzai to Tokyo audiences and coined the term "漫才" (one of...
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  • Masayuki Meijin ga Ōsaka Bunkashō Jushō「Meiyo Aru Shō」" 将棋の豊島将之名人が大阪文化賞受賞「名誉ある賞」 [Shogi Meijin Masayuki Toyoshima receives Osaka Culture Prize. Says the award...
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    dialect is typified by the speech of Osaka, the major city of Kansai, which is referred to specifically as Osaka-ben. It is characterized as being both...
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    Shimon Sakaguchi (category Academic staff of Osaka University)
    Prize 2020: Robert Koch Prize "Experimental Immunology – Osaka University Immunology Frontier Research Center". IFReC | Osaka University Immunology Frontier...
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    Sakata Tōjūrō IV (category Recipients of the Order of Culture)
    of Cultural Merit 2006 – Osaka Culture Prize Cultural Transmission Prize 2008 – Praemium Imperiale 2009 – Order of Culture Nakamura Kanzaburō Library...
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    Hideki Yukawa (category Academic staff of Osaka University)
    [citation needed] 1940 – Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy 1941 – Academic Noma Award 1943 – Order of Culture 1949 – Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 – Elected a...
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  • This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day. A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in mid-September...
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    Tasuku Honjo (category Academic staff of Osaka University)
    Asahi Prize 1984 – Kihara Prize, Genetics Society of Japan 1984 – Osaka Science Prize 1985 – Erwin von Baelz Prize 1988 – Takeda Medical Prize 1992 –...
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    Sakunosuke Oda (category Writers from Osaka)
    was a candidate for the Akutagawa Prize. The following year, Oda published Meoto Zenzai (夫婦善哉). Named after an Osaka sweet shop, it follows the life of...
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  • Grand Prize 1986 Hyogo Prefecture Cultural Award 1988 Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 1991 Medal with Purple Ribbon 1992 Osaka Culture Prize 1997 Order...
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  • Tōzaburō Ono (category People from Naniwa, Osaka)
    of the culture of the Kansai region. He received a series of awards one after another, including the Osaka Prefectural Culture Prize, the Osaka Citizen's...
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    Akira Yoshino (category Osaka University alumni)
    Energy Prize 2014 : Charles Stark Draper Prize 2018 : Japan Prize 2019 : European Inventor Award 2019 : Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 : Order of Culture 2023 :...
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    Yoji Yamada (category People from Toyonaka, Osaka)
    Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade and Love and Honor). He was born in Osaka, but due to his father's job as an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway...
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  • Makate Asai (category Writers from Osaka Prefecture)
    Naoki Prize and the Oda Sakunosuke Prize, and two of her novels have been adapted for television by NHK. Asai was born in 1959 in Habikino, Osaka, Japan...
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  • Kamagasaki (category Geography of Osaka)
    Kamagasaki (釜ヶ崎) is an old place name for a part of Nishinari-ku in Osaka, Japan. Airin-chiku (あいりん地区) became the area's official name in May 1966. It...
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