Today is the anniversary of People's Honour Award. This award was created to honor the person who has an outstanding achievement to give the society bright hope and who is widely loved by the people. Sadaharu Oh(王貞治) became the first one to have been bestowed it by the world record for home run in 1977.
There are 17 people who got this award from 1977 to today. Among them 10 people got the award after their death.
5 of 7 who received the prize while they are still alive are sports players. The other 2 are a singer and an actress.
Details are 4 composers, 2 baseball players, 2 actors & 1 actress, 2 singers, 1 adventurer, 1 judoist, 1 sumo wrestler, 1 cartoonist, 1 movie director, and 1 athlete. There are 4 composers but no lyricist.
There were 3 people who declined the award. One of them is Ichiro (イチロー) who refused twice in 2001 and 2004. It seems he is going to make another record soon.
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