長嶋茂雄さんら９人文化勲章　功労者に加山雄三さんら

　政府は２６日、２０２１年度の文化勲章をプロ野球巨人の長嶋茂雄元監督（８５）、歌舞伎俳優の尾上菊五郎氏＝本名寺嶋秀幸＝（７９）、ノーベル物理学賞受賞が決まった米プリンストン大の真鍋淑郎上席研究員（９０）ら９人に贈ると決めた。文化功労者には俳優の加山雄三氏＝本名池端直亮＝（８４）、劇作家の唐十郎氏＝本名大鶴義英＝（８１）、漫画家の大島弓子氏（７４）ら２１人を選んだ。
　元プロ野球選手に文化勲章が贈られるのは初めて。文化勲章の親授式は１１月３日に皇居で、文化功労者の顕彰式は同４日に東京都内のホテルで行われる。
　文化勲章を受けるのは他に、分子生物学の岡崎恒子・名古屋大名誉教授（８８）、短歌の岡野弘彦氏（９７）、文化人類学の川田順造・東京外国語大名誉教授（８７）、洋画の絹谷幸二氏（７８）、バレエの牧阿佐美氏＝本名福田阿佐美＝、数学の森重文・京都大高等研究院長（７０）。牧氏は今月２０日に８７歳で亡くなったが、生前に受章の内諾を得ていた。死去した後に文化勲章が贈られるケースは４例目という。
　他の文化功労者は、西洋美術史の青柳正規（７６）▽人形浄瑠璃文楽の豊竹咲太夫＝本名生田陽三＝（７７）▽文化人類学の石毛直道（８３）▽心理学の内田伸子（７５）▽表面科学の川合真紀（６９）▽素粒子物理学の鈴木厚人（７５）▽基礎歯学の須田立雄（８６）▽建築の谷口吉生（８４）▽アニメーションの富野由悠季＝本名富野喜幸＝（７９）▽スポーツ振興の中谷雄英（８０）▽遺伝医学の中村祐輔（６８）▽邦舞の西川扇蔵（９３）▽文化振興の堀威夫（８９）▽児童文学の松岡享子（８６）▽陶芸の森野泰明（８７）▽作詞の山上路夫（８５）▽日本語学の山口仲美（７８）の各氏。
　ノーベル賞が決まった人には、その年の文化勲章を贈るのが慣例。真鍋氏は文化功労者にも選ばれた。（2021/10/26-11:42）

The Japanese government decided Tuesday to grant the Order of Culture for fiscal 2021 to nine people, including former baseball superstar Shigeo Nagashima, 85, kabuki actor Onoe Kikugoro VII, Japanese-born U.S. scientist Syukuro Manabe, 90, who has been named a winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.
   It is the first time for the prestigious cultural award in Japan to be given to a former professional baseball player. Nagashima played for and headed the Yomiuri Giants, one of the country's most popular professional baseball teams. Meanwhile, a person named a Nobel Prize winner is customarily awarded the Order of Culture in the same year.
   The government also selected 21 Persons of Cultural Merit, among them actor Yuzo Kayama, 84, playwright Juro Kara, 81, manga artist Yumiko Oshima, 74, and Manabe, a senior meteorologist at Princeton University in the United States.
   Asami Maki, who had long led the world of ballet in Japan and passed away on Wednesday last week at the age of 87, is among the Order of Culture recipients. Maki had given her informal consent to receiving the award before her death. It is the fourth time for the Order of Culture to be awarded to a person after the death of the individual.
   The other five recipients of the Order of Culture are molecular biologist Tsuneko Okazaki, 88, professor emeritus at Nagoya University, poet Hirohiko Okano, 97, cultural anthropologist Junzo Kawada, 87, professor emeritus at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, painter Koji Kinutani, 78, and mathematician Shigefumi Mori, 70, director-general and distinguished professor of Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study.