{"id":41616,"date":"2024-12-18T10:55:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T01:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=41616"},"modified":"2024-12-18T10:55:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T01:55:50","slug":"games-used-to-be-blamed-for-crime-but-now-theyre-finally-recognized-as-culture-dragon-quest-creator-yuji-horii-celebrates-award-from-japanese-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/games-used-to-be-blamed-for-crime-but-now-theyre-finally-recognized-as-culture-dragon-quest-creator-yuji-horii-celebrates-award-from-japanese-government\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGames used to be blamed for crime, but now they\u2019re finally recognized as culture,\u201d Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii celebrates award from Japanese government\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yuji Horii, creator of the <strong>Dragon Quest <\/strong>series, reported on December 17 that he has received the \u201cCommissioner for Cultural Affairs Award.\u201d The Japanese government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bunka.go.jp\/english\/policy\/arts_culture\/honor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Agency for Cultural Affairs<\/a> awards this honor to individuals who have made distinguished accomplishments in artistic and cultural activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u540d\u8a89\u306a\u3053\u3068\u306b\u6587\u5316\u5e81\u9577\u5b98\u304b\u3089\u8868\u5f70\u3057\u3066\u3044\u305f\u3060\u304d\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002\u601d\u3048\u307040\u5e74\u307b\u3069\u524d\u3001\u72af\u7f6a\u306e\u539f\u56e0\u306b\u3055\u308c\u305f\u308a\u3001\u306a\u306b\u304b\u3068\u4e16\u9593\u304b\u3089\u76ee\u306e\u6575\u306b\u3055\u308c\u305f\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u3067\u3059\u304c\u3001\u9577\u3044\u6b73\u6708\u3092\u7d4c\u3066\u56fd\u304b\u3089\u6587\u5316\u3068\u3057\u3066\u8a8d\u3081\u3089\u308c\u308b\u3088\u3046\u306b\u306a\u308a\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002\u611f\u7121\u91cf\u3067\u3059\u3002\u3053\u308c\u304b\u3089\u3082\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u696d\u754c\u3092\u3088\u308d\u3057\u304f\u304a\u9858\u3044\u3057\u307e\u3059\u306d\u3002 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GuhEaTrytx\">pic.twitter.com\/GuhEaTrytx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u5800\u4e95\u96c4\u4e8c (@YujiHorii) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YujiHorii\/status\/1868962510961098757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On his personal X account, Horii posted photographs of the award and ceremony, along with the following comment:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#eaeaea\"><em>I was honored to receive an award from the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs. Looking back to about 40 years ago, video games were perceived as a cause of crime and were frowned upon by society, but after all this time they have come to be recognized as culture by the country. I am deeply moved. Please continue to support the game industry.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii receives an award from the Commissioner of Japan&#8217;s the Agency for Cultural Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":39765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-41616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201cGames used to be blamed for crime, but now they\u2019re finally recognized as culture,\u201d Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii celebrates award from Japanese government\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii receives an award from the Commissioner of Japan&#039;s the Agency for Cultural Affairs.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/games-used-to-be-blamed-for-crime-but-now-theyre-finally-recognized-as-culture-dragon-quest-creator-yuji-horii-celebrates-award-from-japanese-government\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cGames used to be blamed for crime, but now they\u2019re finally recognized as culture,\u201d Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii celebrates award from Japanese government\u00a0 - 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