Order of Culture, Persons of Cultural Merit awards

[Christina Laffin]

List members who have worked with the medieval historian Wakita Haruko may be interested in learning that she was awarded the Order of Culture today. The scholar of early modern literature Nakano Mitsutoshi was also one of ten people named a Person of Cultural Merit.

 

An Asahi article in Japanese can be found here: http://www.asahi.com/culture/update/1026/TKY201010260095.html

and an English article from the Mainichi here: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20101026p2g00m0dm056000c.html

 

Christina Laffin

[Hitomi Tonomura]

Christina, I saw it on news yesterday. Is she ecstatic?

Or, is she just taking it in stride?

Tomi

Hitomi Tonomura
Department of History, The University of Michigan
1029 Tisch Hall, 435 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1003 USA
office: 734-647-7298; fax: 734-647-4881

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[Hitomi Tonomura]

My apologies to pmjs for posting it incorrectly.

Hitomi Tonomura
Department of History, The University of Michigan
1029 Tisch Hall, 435 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1003 USA
office: 734-647-7298; fax: 734-647-4881