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Miscellaneous Japanese Manga Awards

Including some non-Japanese awards for Japanese manga

1991 Nakayoshi magazine's "New Face" Manga award
Megumi Tachikawa (Mink, Saint Tail, Hot Typhoon), for [title?]

Nakayoshi New manga-ka ("manga artist") award
Naoko Takeuchi, for Love Call (Nakayoshi) (pub. 1986)

2nd Nakayoshi New Writer award
Nekobe Neko, for First Date

Anime Expo 2002, Best U.S. Manga Release
Love Hina, by Akamatsu Ken (TokyoPop)

SPJA Anime Award for best translated manga
Appleseed, by Masamune Shirow (Dark Horse/Studio Proteus)

1986 Galaxy Award, for best science-fiction comic
Appleseed, by Masamune Shirow (Seishinsha)

1983 Fourth Japan Culture Design Award
Osamu Tezuka, for the significant effect that his works, especially "Astro Boy", have had on Japanese peoples' view of robots

1988 Asahi Award
Osamu Tezuka, for his creative contribution to postwar manga and the animation industry.

1975 Fourth Japan Manga Association Award, Special Excellence Award
Black Jack [Burakku Jyakku], by Osamu Tezuka

1990 19th Japan Manga Association Award, Ministry of Education Award
Osamu Tezuka, for his lifelong accomplishments

1975 21st Bungei Shunju Manga Award
Buddha, and Essay in Insects, by Osamu Tezuka

1979 Second Iwaya Konami Bungei Award
Osamu Tezuka, for his new developments for children's Manga and other accomplishments.

[year?] 10th Yamamoto Shugoro Award (run by Shincho Bungei Shinkokai)
Gosaintan, by Shinoda Setsuko (Futabasha)

2002 Tanimoto Kiyoshi Peace Prize
Nakazawa Keiji, for the anti-war message of Barefoot Gen [Hadashi no Gen]

1982 4th Japanese Science Fiction Award
A Child's Dream [Domu], by Katsuhiro Otomo

[year?] Big Comic Original Award
Like Shooting Stars in the Twilight, by Hirokane Kenshi

1997 Bungeishunju Manga Awards
Shin Sen Gumi, by Hiroshi Kurogane

1998 Manga Festival in France, Best French Edition Of Foreign Material
Gon, by Masashi Tanaka

1998 11th Shibata Renzaburo Award
Kamigami no Itadaki, by Baku Yumemakura

1997 Asian Manga Academy Grand Prize
Shotaro Ishinomori

Atsuka Awards
(Sponsored by Shueisha Publishing)
      2003 (59th)   [No Award]

Worldwide Manga Reader Awards (Japan)
(Sponsored by Core Mix; began in 2002)
      2002   Grand Prize: [name?], for [Encounter-Encounter] (Weekly Comic Banti)
      2002   Second Prize: Osamu [name?], for [title?] (Weekly Comic Banti)
      2002   Judges' Special Prize: Tetuya Hasegawa, for [title?] (Weekly Comic Banti)
      2002   Four-panel cartoon category: Hiroshi [name?] for [Hot blooded man] (Weekly Comic Banti)
      2002   Acceptance: Hidaka [name?], for [Full stomach boxer Tokugawa] (Weekly Comic Banti)
      2002   Acceptance: Onishi [name?], for [The hang-up of 142 cm] (Weekly Comic Banti)
      2002   Acceptance: [name?], for [Scene of flying military officer] (Weekly Comic Banti)
      2002   Acceptance: Hayama [name?], for [Princess Blackbird] (Weekly Comic Banti)
      2002   Acceptance: Noda [name?], for [It escapes!!!] (Weekly Comic Banti)
      2002   Acceptance: Takayuki Eguti, for [Town of grey] (Weekly Comic Banti)

Lightning Game Manga Awards
(Sponsored by Mediaworks)
      Grand Prize: [No Award]
      Gold Prize: [name?] Okuda, for [From Chestnut]
      Silver Prize: Hisashi [name?], for [Shade Cat Teacher]
      Member's Selection Special Prize: PANDEM., for Babel
      Member's Selection Encouragement Prize: [name?] Kotaro, for All Pro

Yomiuri International Manga Award
(Sponsored by Yomiuri Newspaper)
      Grand Prize (Free section): [name?], for [It certainly keeps striking]
      Kondo Hidezo Prize (Free section): [name?], for [Night 2020]
      Gold Prize (Free section): [name?], for [Last Iceberg]
      Gold Prize (Topic section): [name?], for [Theme: Beauty Care Gymnastics]
      Junior Excellence Prize (Elementary school student category): Ayako Honda, for [It is finished!]
      Junior Excellence Prize (Junior high school student category): Yukiko Kato, for [Condensation trail]