He was qualified as a person of cultural merit in 1987.
I understand that the audience for these works is small, but the works themselves are often of great literary and cultural merit.
The registry chooses films based on their cultural, historic or technical merits.
In 1981, he was honored as a Person of Cultural Merit.
The purpose is to honor persons of cultural merit by providing a special government-sponsored pension.
By 1999, 576 people had been selected as Persons of Cultural Merit.
In 1973, he was designated a Person of Cultural Merit by the Japanese government.
In 1978, the Japanese government designated him a Person of Cultural Merit.
Specifically, Corti received the award for cultural merits.
One of the Person of Cultural Merit in 1997.