Migishi Setsuko, artist, 1989
* Seicho Matsumoto, novelist, 1989
* Shuhei Fujisawa, novelist, 1993
* Fumihiko Maki, architect, 1993 (1993 Pritzker Architecture Prize)
* Tadao Ando, architect, 1994 (1995 Pritzker Architecture Prize)
* Kenzaburo Oe, novelist, 1994 (1994 Nobel Prize in Literature)