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“The Japan Mecenat Awards 2016” Award Winners Announced

Posted : 2017/01/31 Press release

“The Japan Mecenat Awards 2016” Award Winners Announced

Grand Mécénat Award goes to the support of ‘hand-made manufacturing’

 Activities over 50- year history, Okinawa enterprises awarded Award Granted by the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs

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Association for Corporate Support of the Arts:”KMK” (President: Motoki Ozaki) has announced seven winners of the Japan Mécénat Awards 2016 (the Grand Mécénat Award, five Mécénat Awards, and the Award Granted by the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs).
The Japan Mécénat Awards are to honor corporations and corporate foundations whose supports for the arts have significant impacts to Japanese culture and society.

Grand Mécénat Award goes to The Japan Wool Textile Co., Ltd., who has been supporting Japan’s world-class ‘handicrafts’ and nurturing a beautiful life culture with natural blessings. This year’s awards go to Mécénat activities such as the support and grants for professionals behind the scenes and young artists, the competitions nurturing children’s creativity, the fostering program for a rich children’s culture; which are to encourage current/future bearers of Japanese diverse culture. In addition, there are also four awarded activities that have continued for more than 50 years including excellent corporate press magazines disseminating architectural culture.

The areas of awarded activities are not only in Tokyo but also Okinawa, Osaka and Aichi.

Japan Mécénat Awards 2016 Results

Grand Mécénat Award The Japan Wool Textile Co., Ltd.
Koubou Karano Kaze – craft in action
Mécénat Award

Discovery of Unknown Award

CBC TELEVISION CO.,LTD.
CBC Club Culture Award (Kuchinashi Award)
Mécénat Award

Young Painter Shell Award

Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K.

SHELL ART AWARD

Mécénat Award

Architect-Culture Approach Award

Takenaka Corporation

Publishing of Quaterly Magazine approach

Mécénat Award

Tokyo Nakatsu-Machi* Art and Design Award

Tokyo Midtown Management Co., Ltd.

Tokyo Midtown Award 2015

Mécénat Award

Children for Dream- Half A Century Award

TonenGeneral Group

TonenGeneral Children’s Culture Award

Special Award

Award Granted by the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs

Japan Transocean Air Co., Ltd.

JTA・RAC Blue Sky Drawing Contest

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