Osamu Tezuka Culture Award

Named after Osamu Tezuka, the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award (手塚治虫文化賞 Tezuka Osamu Bunkashō) is a comic book prize awarded to manga artists that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach. The prize has been awarded since 1997, in Tokyo, Japan.

Among the prize winners are :

• Jiro Taniguchi in 1998, for the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai
• Takehiko Inoue in 2002, for Vagabond

See also: Tezuka Award