Tezuka Cultural Awards Announced

Winners of this year's Tezuka Osamu Bunka-sho, a cultural award of nine years standing named after the legendary Osamu Tezuka, were announced on Monday.

Grand Prize: Pluto, Naoki Urasawa (based on a Tezuka manga)
Shinsei Award (New Hope): Yunagi no Machi Sakura no Kuni, Kono Fumiyo
Short Story Ward: "Mainichi Kaasan" and "Jokyo Monogatari," Rieko Saibara
Special Award: Kawaski City Museum

Only the grand prize is given out every year. The win over eight other finalists marks Naoki Urasawa's second grand prize honor, after taking the award in 1999 for Monster. Urasawa is the only multiple grand prize winner in the award's short history. Other past winners include Botchan No Jidai, by Natsuo Sekikawa and Jiro Taniguchi, and Fujiko F. Fujio's Doraemon, the first winner in 1997. Urasawa's manga sprung from an arc of Tezuka's seminal Astro Boy.

The awards are sponsored by Asahi Shimbun.
 
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