La lista de destinatarios de la Medalla Cultural Japonesa recoge los nombres de las personas que han ganado la Medalla Cultural Japonesa. A 3 de noviembre de 2007, un total de 338 personas han obtenido el premio.
1937-1944:
1937: Nagaoka Hantaro - Honda Kotaro - Kimura Sakae - Sasaki Nobutsuna - Koda Rohan - Okada Saburosuke - Takeuchi Sifeng - Fuji Shima Takeji - Yokoyama Taikan
1940: Takagi Sadaharu - Nishida Kitaro - Kawai Gokudo - Sasaki Takahiro
1943: Ito Chuta - Suzuki Umetaro - Asahina Yasuhiko - Yukawa Hideki - Tokutomi Soho - Miyake Yukirei - Wada Eisaku
1944: Tanakadate Aitachi - Okabe Kinjiro - Shiga Kei - Inada Ryukichi - Kano Naoki - Takanan Junjiro
1946-1949
1946: Nakata Kaoru - Miyabe Kingo - Mote Kunichi - Nishina Yoshio - Umewa Manzaburo - Iwanami Shigeo
1948: Kihara Jun - Hasegawa Soko - Asakura Fumio - Uemura Shoen - Yasuda Sahihiko
1949: Onoe Kikugoro - Tsuda Saikichi - Suzuki Ojo - Miura Kinnosuke - Okada Takematsu - Majima Toshiyuki - Junichiro Tanizaki-Naoya Shiga
1950-1959:
1950: Eiichi Makino-Moto Tanabe-Kenjiro Fujii-Tokuichi Mishima-Kobayashi Ancient Trail- Doi Matsui - Masamune Shiratori
1951: Yanagita Kunio - Mitsuda Kensuke - Nishikawa Masaharu - Kikuchi Masashi - Saito Shigeyoshi - Mushakoji Sanetsu - Nakamura Yoshiemon
1952: Umehara Ryuuzaburo - Kumagai Daizo - Sasaki Soichi - Tsuji Zennosuke - Tomonaga Shinichiro - Nagai Kafeng - Yasui Sotaro
1953: Itaya Hazan - Ui Hakushou - Katori Hidema - Kita Rokuheita - Haneda Hiroshi - Yacho Katsuo
1954: Katsunuma Seizo - Kabutoki Kiyakata - Kaneda Ichikyousuke - Takahama Kyoshi - Hagiwara Yusuke
1955: Otani Takejiro - Okinaka Jōkan - Hiranuma Ryozo - Futaki Kenzo - Maeda Aomura - Masumoto - Watsuji Tetsuro
1956: Kotaro Ando - Bunjiro Sakamoto - De Nimura - Taneki Furahata - Takejiro Murakami - Hideji Yagi - Yamada Kōsaki
1957: Tomitaro Makino - Chisaburo Ogata - Mantaro Kubota - Kunihiko Kodaira - Suisaki Nishiyama - Takao Yamada - Kosaburo Yoshizumi
1958: Kitamura mira al oeste - Heisaburo Kondo - Tetsuo Nogo - Katsura Matsubayashi
1959: Ryuko Kawabata - Shinzo Koizumi - Hojiro Niwa - Satomi Satomi - Tomizo Yoshida
1960- 1969 Año:
1960: Oka Ketsu - Sato Haruo - Tanaka Kotaro - Yoshikawa Eiji
1961: Kawabata Yasunari - Suzuki Torao - Tomimoto Kenkichi - Domoto Impression - Fukuda Heihachiro - Mizushima Sanichiro
1962: Umezawa Hamao - Okumura Touyu - Kuwada Gibe - Nakamura Gakurei - Hirakushi Tanaka
1963: Kuno Ning - Koga Ituse
p>1964: Seiji Momo - Jiro Daibutsu - Sadajiro Yabuda - Isoroku Yoshida - Sakae Gatsuma
1965: Shiro Akabori - Gentaro Koito - Morohashi Tetsuji - Yamaguchi Toharu - Yamamoto Yuzo 1966: Ibushi Tsuji - Tokuoka Kamisen - Nita Isamu
1967: Kobayashi Hideo - Sakaguchi Kinichiro - Hayashi Take - Murano Togo - Yamagata Masao
1968 Año: Kenzan Nanfeng - Kurokawa Toshio - Suzuki Masaji - Hamada Shoji
1969: Shishi Bunroku - Ochiai Eiji - Masada Kenjiro - Higashiyama Kaii
1970 -1979:
1970: Shigeo Okinaka-Shiko Munakata
1971: Masao Akagi-Tozo Arakawa-Yayoko Nogami -Takuma Yasui
1972: Uchida Shozo - Ono Seiichiro - Okanosuke - Hayaishi Osamu
1973: Ishihara Ken - Katsuki Yasuji - Kubo Ryogo - Seto Shoji - Taniguchi Yoshiro
1974: Kosei Ishizaka - Reina Esaki - Sugiyama Nin - Takeshi Nagata - Meiji Hashimoto
1975: Setsuro Ebashi - Keizo Koyama - Hirosuke Tasaki - Issei Nakagawa - Hiroshi Nakaheiyu
1976
: Yasushi Inoue - Takejo Ono - Shiseki Kimura - Gonroku Matsuda - Michio Morishima
1977: Ichiro Sakurada - Hiroshi Tamiya - Gen Nakamura - Fumio Niwa - Hito Yamamoto
1978: Kazuo Ozaki - Yaichi Kusube - Takashi Sugimura - Michitaro Tanaka - Yoichiro Minami
1979: Kinji Imanishi - Utaemon Nakamura - Masahiro Sawada - Seiichiro Takahashi - Universidad Horiguchi
1980-1989:
1980: Yuge Ogura - Masao Otani - Kenzo Tange - Seiichi Higashihata - Kanzaburo Nakamura
1981: Kenjiro Takayana - Tatsuo Nagai - Hakuyo Matsumoto - Kayou Yamaguchi - Kisaburo Yokota - Kenichi Fukui
1982: Taro Sakamoto - Tatsuo Takayama - Kyousuke Tsuda - Kanjuro Fujima - Yoshichi Masao
1983: Yamamoto Kenkichi - Ushijima Nobuyuki - Oiso Ryohei - Hattori Shiro - Muto Kiyoshi
1984: Uemura Matsuhara - Okuda Yuansong - Kaizuka Shigeki - Nobuji Takahashi - Susumu Tonegawa
1985: Fumiko Enchi - Akira Kurosawa - Moriho Sagara - Nishikawa Ning - Kiyoo Wada
1986: Ogisu Takatoku - Yoshitake Okada - Fumi Tsuchiya - Reiji Natori - Chushiro Hayashi
1987: Harumura Ikeda - Yoshio Okada - Hirai Kusano - Takeo Kuwahara - Matsumidori Onoe
1988 Año: Isao Imai - Katsumi Ene - Kawamori Yoshizo - Masao Suenaga - Taimi Nishizuka
1989: Taiko Kataoka - Takeo Suzuki - Naoki Tominaga - Junichi Nishizawa - Junji Yoshii
1990-1999:
1990: Ryosuke Ishii-Sadaji Ichiko-Yachiyo Inoue-Outei Kaneko-Saburo Nagakura
1991: Hiroshi Inose - Hiro Egami - Shugoro Hasuda - Ichiro Fukuzawa - Hisaya Morishige 1992: Sugiame Aoyama - Dai Ibuka - Hisao Otsuka - Taiki Sato - Yonezo Morino
1993: Kenichiro Ohsumi - Minoru Oda - Miyuki Tetsusa - Ryotaro Shima - Shigeru Morita
1994: Asahina Takashi - Iwahashi Hideo - Umeichi Tadao - Shima Hideo - Mitsuda Hisaki
1995: Shusaku Endo - Kensuke Saji - Shigemitsu Danto - Hidezaburo Hanabusa - Shiro Masuda
1996: Isokichi Asakura - Kiyonaga Ito - Masao Ito - Rizo Takeuchi - Hide Mori Megumi
1997: Sensoji - Hirofumi Uzawa - Masatoshi Oshiba - Setsuro Takahashi - Mitsuaki Mukayama
1998: Ashihara Yoshinobu - Kishimoto Chuzo - Hirayama Ikuo - Murakami San Shima - Tatsuro Yamamoto
1999: Hiroyuki Agawa - Fuuki Akino - Masaki Ito - Takeshi Umehara - Saburo Tamura
2000-
2000: Ishikawa Tadao - Okubo Hisako - Shirakawa Hideki - Sugioka Kanamura - Noyori Ryoharu - Yamada Isuzu
2001: Iguchi Hiroyuki - Toshima Hisao - Nakane Chie - Moriya Tatashi - Yodoi Toshio
p>2002: Ryutaro Komiya - Jiro Kondo - Kaneto Shindo - Enko Sugimoto - Koichi Tanaka - Kyohei Fujita
2003: Nobu Ooka - Sadako Ogata - Matazo Kayama - Nishijima Kazuhiko - Moriwata
2004: Shirakawa Shizu - Nakamura Kaemon (4ta generación) - Totsuka Yoji - Fukuoji Horin - Kobayashi Dosuke
2005: Aoki Ryuzan - Saito Makoto - Sawada Toshio - Hinohara Shigeaki - Mori Mitsuko
2006: Arata Yoshiaki - Oyama Tadaku - Shinohara Mandaipei - Setouchi Shitina - Yoshida Hidekazu
2007: Setsuhito Okada - Chisaku Shigeyama - Koji Nakanishi - Shinya Nakamura - Capítulo de tres meses
2008: Makoto Kobayashi - Toshihide Masukawa - Osamu Shimomura - Kiyoshi Ito - Sei Ozawa Er - Seiko Tanabe - Donald Keane - Hiroyuki Furuhashi
2009: Sumio Iijima - Asa Katami - Tojuro Sakata - Rong Hayami - Raio Hinuma
2010: Arima Rōto, Tadao Ando, Akira Suzuki, Yukio Ninagawa, Eiichi Negishi , Issey Miyake, Haruko Wakita