Nobel Prize winning climatologist Syukuro Manabe and iconic former baseball player Shigeo Nagashima were among nine people selected as recipients of Japan's Order of Culture this year, the government said Tuesday.Others receiving the top cultural award are kabuki actor Onoe Kikugoro VII, 79, molecular biology researcher Tsuneko Okazaki, 88, Japanese tanka poet Hirohiko Okano, 97, anthropologist Junzo Kawada, 87, painter Koji Kinutani, 78, and mathematician Shigefumi Mori, 70. Ballet dancer Asami Maki who died at age 87 last Wednesday was also named a recipient.Manabe, 90, shared this year's…READ FULL ARTICLE
