644 people and 20 organizations, including the Japan National Team that won the WBC = World Baseball Classic in baseball, will receive the medal. Japan won the fifth edition of the tournament last month for the first time in three tournaments under coach Hideki Kuriyama.
The event where recipients of the medal receive words from His Majesty the Emperor at the Imperial Palace has been canceled since the spring of Reiwa 1 due to the influence of the new coronavirus, but this time it will be held in three and a half years.