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- Morimatsu Yoshida
- Keeping children safe on their way to school through half a century of crossing-guard service
- Ryouto Yoshioka
- Overturning the accepted wisdom on doodlebugs through summer-vacation observations and experiments
- Tsuyoshi Higuchi
- Overcoming cancer and inspiring other cancer patients and their families for 10 years with his own rakugo traditional Japanese comic storytelling
- Mikiko Yoshijima
- Creating and delivering paper patterns for towel headwear for people concerned about hair loss due to cancer treatment
- Mizuki Taira
- Serving as a source of inspiration by baking bread for rehabilitation
- Yukio Shige
- Created a consultation center to prevent suicides at the Tojinbo rock formation in Fukui; conducts patrols and helps people get a new start
- The late Kazuya Ito
- Aiming to make war-torn Afghanistan green, worked to aid agriculture and befriended local residents
- Kawasaki Owner-Driver Taxi Association
- Has provided "taxi drive field trips" for children from facilities for the disabled for 30 years
- Izumi Municipal Sho Middle School
- The entire school has continued activities to count cranes and keep official records of the crane population for half a century
- Isao Nishitani
- Has supported students' motivation to learn by donating to a middle-school night course for 50 years
- High-school student volunteers who regularly clean train car interiors
- On their own initiative, high-school students attending the same middle school pick up waste inside the train they ride home from school
- Yuzo Tanigaki
- Has provided medical care in the field as a surgeon in South Africa for more than 25 years
- Koho Kawagoe
- Has worked for 27 years as the disc jockey of a popular program broadcast inside prisons, making more than 300 broadcasts in total
- Toshiko Kuwayama
- While assisting students in Sri Lanka, also realized her own long-cherished dream of graduating from high school
- Satoru Arishiro
- Through his own efforts, established a mobile petting zoo by accepting animals turned in to a koban police station
- Kenichi Hotta
- For 26 years, has built by hand bicycles suited to the individual needs of people with disabilities
- Kenjiro and Masaru Yoshino (father and son)
- Has continued donating eyeglasses to elderly people in the community for more than 45 years, through three generations of parents and children
- Employees of Nihon Spindle Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- All employees worked together to rescue victims at the site of a train derailment on the JR Fukuchiyama Line
- Shingu Yamabiko ("Echo") Group
- Has maintained the southern half (about 45 kilometers) of the Omine Okugakemichi (Kumano Kodo) pilgrimage route for 20 years
- Volunteers from the Toyo'oka branch of the Hyogo Prefecture municipal pensioners federation
- By helping each other reach the top of their submerged sightseeing bus, all members returned safely
- Toshio and Sayoko Nagai (husband and wife)
- Amid much concern today about the difficulties of raising children, the Nagais have raised 60 foster children
- Yumiko Takamatsu
- After the tragedy of losing her oldest son, provides support for survivors of victims of crime who are undergoing similar ordeals
- Marcia Akemi Endo
- After learning that Brazilian children needed a school in Japan in the course of delivering boxed lunches to some of these children, reopened a Brazilian school that had closed due to lack of funding
- Kenta Soga
- Competed in the Summer National High-School Baseball Tournament at Koshien Stadium wearing a prosthesis below the knee
- Motoi Tanimura
- For 35 years has continued sending handwritten postcards with words of encouragement to elderly people who live alone
- Yayoi Takei
- Has long worked as a doctor providing medical aid overseas, in places such as East Timor
- Prosthesis and Orthosis Supporter's Association for Afghanistan
- Produces prostheses and donates them to people in Afghanistan
- Akihiko Ito
- Travelled across Japan to record the recollections of 1,003 victims of the nuclear blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Masato Oshima
- First in the world to discover an outburst of a WZ Sagittae-type dwarf nova, using his home telescope
- Akira Sugenoya
- Worked as a thyroid surgeon treating victims of radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear accident
- Genri Kondo and Misako Kondo
- Have opened their home to people with disabilities and spent time with them there on an ongoing basis for 38 years
- Junko Association
- Continuing activities in support of education for children in Vietnam, across three levels
- Welfare Atelier Aichi
- Designs and builds aids for people with disabilities, on an individual basis, that take into account the degree of their disability
- Midori Thayer and Masae Yonamine
- Opened a school for children of local mothers and fathers who are U.S. military stationed in Okinawa
- Thomas C. Kantha
- Repaired, reconditioned, and donated to his home country of South Africa 2,000 wheelchairs
- Members of the recording group Koe ("Voice")
- Marking 25 years of recording newspapers and new books onto audiotape for distribution to people with visual impairments
- Yasuhiro Kishimoto
- Built a school in Nepal at his own cost and devoted himself to providing free literacy education for children
- Satomi Kaneko and Shizu Yasuda
- Crossed the islands of Japan by bicycle to raise awareness and understanding of donor cards
- Members of Fukushi ("Welfare") Network Ikebukuro Honcho
- Uses sensors on electric water pots to protect elderly people living alone in the community
