{"id":170742,"date":"2019-10-30T01:01:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1808819\/"},"modified":"2019-10-30T01:01:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:01:21","slug":"nintendos-shigeru-miyamoto-receives-japanese-cultural-merit-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/30\/nintendos-shigeru-miyamoto-receives-japanese-cultural-merit-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo\u2019s Shigeru Miyamoto Receives Japanese Cultural Merit Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/shigeru_miyamoto.jpg?resize=625%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"625\" height=\"350\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>When talking about folks who have made the video game industry what it is today, it\u2019s tougher to get any more influential than Shigeru Miyamoto. He created the <em>Donkey Kong<\/em> arcade game, exploding Nintendo\u2019s popularity overseas. He developed <em>Super Mario Bros<\/em>., the <em>Citizen Kane<\/em> of video games and a revolutionary mascot sidescroller that revived game consoles alongside the NES. And since then he\u2019s been responsible for all kinds of legendary Nintendo characters and design ideas, from <em>The Legend of Zelda<\/em> to <em>Wii Sports<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like someone with a lot of cultural merit. Well now Japan finally agrees. The Japanese government&#8217;s Order of Culture has just honored Miyamoto as one of twenty Persons of Cultural Merit for the year, the first video game designer to receive the award.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ny1RHOLYnEk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>If this prize sounds long overdue, here\u2019s some perspective. Studio Ghibli\u2019s Hayao Miyazaki is a pretty titanic figure of anime artistry all over the world, while never compromising the inherent Japanese essence of his works. But as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/japanese-government-honors-shigeru-miyamoto-as-person-o-1839435174\"  rel=\"noopener\">Kotaku<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikkei.com\/article\/DGXMZO51514910Z21C19A0000000\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Nikkei<\/a>), he didn\u2019t receive this cultural merit award until 2012, right at the cusp of his alleged retirement.<\/p>\n<p>But better late than never. Japan\u2019s overall influence on video games is immense. Its artists deserve recognition from their home country. And Miyamoto, now in his own sort of semi-retirement while younger employees take charge at Nintendo, is as good a place to start as any.<\/p>\n<p>Miyamoto said he&#8217;s &#8220;thankful that light is being shined upon the genre of games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on Nintendo legends, reminiscence about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/reggie-fils-aime-famous-black-nintendo-of-america-president-retires-this-april-1775597\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Reggie Fils-Aime<\/a>&#8216;s time as the beautiful Black president of Nintendo of America. And check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/index.php\" title=\"\u672c\u7db1\u9801\u63d0\u4f9b\u4e00\u500b\u65b9\u4fbf\u7684\u5e73\u53f0, \u70ba\u5927\u5bb6\u914d\u5c0d\u96fb\u8166\u88dc\u7fd2,IT freelance, \u79c1\u4eba\u8001\u5e2b , PHP\u88dc\u7fd2, HTML\u88dc\u7fd2, CSS\u88dc\u7fd2, JavaScript\u88dc\u7fd2, XML, Java\u88dc\u7fd2,Server\u88dc\u7fd2, MySQL\u88dc\u7fd2, \u4e2d\u5b78\u96fb\u8166\u79d1\u79c1\u4eba\u88dc\u7fd2, \u5728\u8077\u4eba\u58eb\u96fb\u8166\u63d0\u5347\u88dc\u7fd2,\u5c08\u696d\u8003\u8a66\u96fb\u8166 \u88dc\u7fd2,\u96fb\u8166\u5716\u50cf\u8a2d\u8a08\u96fb\u8166\u88dc\u7fd2, gra\">collection<\/a> of interviews from late Nintendo president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/interviews-with-late-nintendo-president-satoru-iwata-are-becoming-a-book-1793194\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Satoru Iwata<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/shigeru_miyamoto.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"350\"><\/figure>\n<p>When talking about folks who have made the video game industry what it is today, it&rsquo;s tougher to get any more influential than Shigeru Miyamoto. He created the Donkey Kong arcade game, exploding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/nintendos-shigeru-miyamoto-receive-japanese-cultural-merit-award-1808819\/\">Nintendo&rsquo;s Shigeru Miyamoto Receives Japanese Cultural Merit Award<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/\">Geek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/30\/nintendos-shigeru-miyamoto-receives-japanese-cultural-merit-award\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2054,2,2326,2047,2205,16,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,478,481,482,480,479,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404,477],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-IpU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170743,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170742\/revisions\/170743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}