{"id":1141549,"date":"2026-02-05T23:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/QxqAfMbmyx5YZiYgp3bH68"},"modified":"2026-02-05T23:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:24:13","slug":"after-31-years-in-games-persona-director-katsura-hashino-just-got-a-newcomer-award-and-5000-from-the-japanese-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/after-31-years-in-games-persona-director-katsura-hashino-just-got-a-newcomer-award-and-5000-from-the-japanese-government\/","title":{"rendered":"After 31 years in games, Persona director Katsura Hashino just got a &#8216;Newcomer Award&#8217; and $5,000 from the Japanese government"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Katsura Hashino has been <em>doing this a while<\/em>. The designer, most famous for his work as director on Persona 3, 4, and 5 as well as, most recently, Metaphor: ReFantazio, has been working at Atlus since I was literally one year old, all the way back in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s with amused bafflement that I bring you the news that Hashino has just been awarded Japan&#8217;s (pace yourself) &#8220;Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology&#8217;s New Face Award in the Media Arts Division of the Arts Encouragement Prize&#8221; (via <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/metaphor-refantazio-director-katsura-hashino-receives-japanese-government-award-for-remarkable-contribution-to-art\/\" target=\"_blank\">Automaton<\/a>). Atlus tweeted that he had received the prize on Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3053\u306e\u305f\u3073\u300e\u30e1\u30bf\u30d5\u30a1\u30fc\uff1a\u30ea\u30d5\u30a1\u30f3\u30bf\u30b8\u30aa\u300f\u306e\u6210\u679c\u3092\u8a55\u4fa1\u3044\u305f\u3060\u304d\u30a2\u30c8\u30e9\u30b9\u306e\u30af\u30ea\u30a8\u30a4\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30d7\u30ed\u30c7\u30e5\u30fc\u30b5\u30fc\u30fb\u30c7\u30a3\u30ec\u30af\u30bf\u30fc\u3067\u3042\u308b\u6a4b\u91ce\u6842\u304c\u300c\u82b8\u8853\u9078\u5968 \u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2\u82b8\u8853\u90e8\u9580 \u6587\u90e8\u79d1\u5b66\u5927\u81e3\u65b0\u4eba\u8cde\u300d\u3092\u53d7\u8cde\u3044\u305f\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002https:\/\/t.co\/Sq891Ag80y<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/1896493716472492506\">March 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>That is to say he&#8217;s the recipient of a prize that the Japanese government specifically gives out to, um, new faces. Newcomers, you know. On the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sensho.go.jp\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">award&#8217;s official website<\/a> (machine translated), the body responsible for the prize refers to it as a &#8220;Newcomer Award&#8221; and notes that it comes with an 800,000 yen (about $5,000) prize.<\/p>\n<p>Hashino richly deserves an award, of course. The mark the Persona series has made under his stewardship is enormous, and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/metaphor-refantazio-review\/\">Metaphor: ReFantazio is a damn good time too<\/a>. I just find it funny he got one of the two &#8220;new face&#8221; awards instead of the other two prizes, the less specific &#8220;Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award&#8221; which, incidentally, comes with a bigger 1.2 million yen ($8,000) prize.<\/p>\n<p>After all, none other than <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kojimaproductions.jp\/en\/Hideo-Kojima%20-receives-illustrious-Minister-of-Education-Award-for-Fine-Arts\" target=\"_blank\">Hideo Kojima got the latter prize<\/a> back in 2022, although by that point Kojima had been working on games for 36 years. Maybe 35 years is the cut-off, the point at which you&#8217;re no longer a newcomer? Maybe Japan&#8217;s government is staffed by Asari-like politicians who all live to be 1,000 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, neither Hashino or Atlus seemed particularly put out by the new face award, so maybe I&#8217;m the one taking crazy pills here. Stay tuned for the Japanese government&#8217;s upcoming 30-under-30 awards; I hear top prize is tipped to go to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Takeshi_Kitano\" target=\"_blank\">Beat Takeshi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"e7598d31-0003-4ed1-b55a-427c36218efb\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Best cozy games\" data-dimension48=\"Best cozy games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:685px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"2btpGUUeNoUT67HBRbro3G\" name=\"metaphor-refantazio\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/after-31-years-in-games-persona-director-katsura-hashino-just-got-a-newcomer-award-and-5000-from-the-japanese-government.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"685\" height=\"685\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-cozy-games-on-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"e7598d31-0003-4ed1-b55a-427c36218efb\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"Best cozy games\" data-dimension48=\"Best cozy games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>Best cozy games<\/strong><\/a>: Relaxed gaming<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-anime-games-on-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best anime games<\/strong><\/a>: Animation-inspired<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-jrpgs-on-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best JRPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Classics and beyond<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-cyberpunk-games-on-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best cyberpunk games<\/strong><\/a>: Techno futures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/best-gacha-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best gacha games<\/strong><\/a>: Freemium fanatics<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/after-34-years-in-games-persona-director-katsura-hashino-just-got-a-newcomer-award-and-usd5-000-from-the-japanese-government\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katsura Hashino has been doing this a while. The designer, most famous for his work as director on Persona 3, 4, and 5 as well as, most recently, Metaphor: ReFantazio, has been working at Atlus since I was literally one year old, all the way back in 1994. So it&#8217;s with amused bafflement that I bring you the news that Hashino has just been awarded Japan&#8217;s (pace yourself) &#8220;Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology&#8217;s New Face Award in the Media Arts Division of the Arts Encouragement Prize&#8221; (via Automaton). Atlus tweeted that he had received the prize on Monday. \u3053\u306e\u305f\u3073\u300e\u30e1\u30bf\u30d5\u30a1\u30fc\uff1a\u30ea\u30d5\u30a1\u30f3\u30bf\u30b8\u30aa\u300f\u306e\u6210\u679c\u3092\u8a55\u4fa1\u3044\u305f\u3060\u304d\u30a2\u30c8\u30e9\u30b9\u306e\u30af\u30ea\u30a8\u30a4\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30d7\u30ed\u30c7\u30e5\u30fc\u30b5\u30fc\u30fb\u30c7\u30a3\u30ec\u30af\u30bf\u30fc\u3067\u3042\u308b\u6a4b\u91ce\u6842\u304c\u300c\u82b8\u8853\u9078\u5968 \u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2\u82b8\u8853\u90e8\u9580 \u6587\u90e8\u79d1\u5b66\u5927\u81e3\u65b0\u4eba\u8cde\u300d\u3092\u53d7\u8cde\u3044\u305f\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002https:\/\/t.co\/Sq891Ag80yMarch 3, 2025 That is to say he&#8217;s the recipient of a prize that the Japanese government specifically gives out to, um,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/after-31-years-in-games-persona-director-katsura-hashino-just-got-a-newcomer-award-and-5000-from-the-japanese-government\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1141550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[5491],"class_list":["post-1141549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-gaming-industry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>After 31 years in games, Persona director Katsura Hashino just got a &#039;Newcomer Award&#039; and $5,000 from the Japanese government | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Katsura Hashino has been doing this a while. 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