1962. Nishiwaki was awarded the prestigious Yomiuri Prize in 1957. In 1962, Nishiwaki was appointed to the Japan Art Academy, and at the invitation of Alitalia and the Italian Institute for the Middle East, he was invited to Europe. In September 1967, he visited Montreal in Canada to speak at the World Poetry Conference. In 1971, he was designated a Person of Cultural Merit by the Japanese government. Nishiwaki was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974 and awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 2nd class, by the Japanese government. Nishiwaki was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1966. Nishiwaki died of heart failure at the age of 88 at his hometown in Niigata. His grave is at the temple of Zōjō-ji in Shiba, Tokyo. See also Japanese literature List of Japanese authors References Nishiwaki, Junzaburo. Gen'Ei: Selected Poems of Nishiwaki Junzaburo, 1894-1982. Wild Peony (1991). Literal translation concept in the surreal poetry of Nishiwaki Junzaburō Komakha O. , Litinska O. ISSN 2415-3133 https://www.academia.edu/37449503/%D0%9A%D0%9E%D0%9D%D0%A6%D0%95%D0%9F%D0%A6%D0%86%D0%AF_%D0%91%D0%A3%D0%9A%D0%92%D0%90%D0%9B%D0%AC%D0%9D%D0%9E%D0%93%D0%9E_%D0%9F%D0%95%D0%A0%D0%95%D0%9A%D0%9B%D0%90%D0%94%D0%A3_%D0%A1%D0%AE%D0%A0%D0%A0%D0%95%D0%90%D0%9B%D0%86%D0%A1%D0%A2%D0%98%D0%A7%D0%9D%D0%9E%D0%87_%D0%9F%D0%9E%D0%95%D0%97%D0%86%D0%87_%D0%9D%D0%86%D0%A1%D0%86%D0%92%D0%90%D0%9A%D0%86_%D0%94%D0%97%D0%AE%D0%9D%D0%94%D0%97%D0%90%D0%91%D0%A3%D0%A0%D0%9E External links Junzaburo Nishiwaki's Memorial Room in Ojiya, Niigata. Prominent People of Minato City 1894 births 1982 deaths English-language writers from Japan Japanese literary critics Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Yomiuri Prize winners People from Niigata Prefecture Alumni of New College, Oxford Keio University alumni Academic staff of Keio University 20th-century Japanese poets 20th-century Japanese translators