Matsutaro Shoriki Award is named in honor of
Matsutarō Shōriki
was a Japanese media mogul and politician. He owned the ''Yomiuri Shimbun'' newspaper, the main mouthpiece for the military dictatorship during the war, after the war it gained Japan’s highest readership while openly distributing nationalistic ...
, the owner of the
Yomiuri Shimbun
The (lit. ''Reading-selling Newspaper'' or ''Selling by Reading Newspaper'') is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five major newspapers in Japan; the other four are t ...
, whose achievements earned him the label of the real parent of present day
Japanese professional baseball. The prize was founded in 1977.
It is presented to a person (a
manager
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Management includes the activities o ...
or
player
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Role or adjective
* Player (game), a participant in a game or sport
** Gamer, a player in video and tabletop games
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) who greatly contributed to the development of
professional baseball
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Mod ...
. A gold medal and the prize of 5 million yen are awarded to the recipient. The prize money is provided by Yomiuri Shimbun and
Nihon Television
JOAX-DTV (channel 4), branded as , is the flagship station of the Nippon News Network and the Nippon Television Network System, owned-and-operated by the which is a subsidiary of the certified broadcasting holding company , itself a listed su ...
.
Recipients
See also
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References
{{Nippon Professional Baseball
Nippon Professional Baseball trophies and awards
Awards established in 1977
1977 establishments in Japan