https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2259149/full/
The 70th Kikuchi Kan Prize presentation ceremony was held at a hotel in Tokyo in early December, which is given to individuals and groups that have made creative achievements in cultural activities such as literature, movies/theater, newspapers, and broadcasting. Award winner Yuzuru Hanyu (27) posted a video message and looked back on his skating life so far.
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In a video message, Hanyu shared his joy and confessed, "Most of my life has been on the road to my dreams. It's been a series of hopes and despairs."
In my daily practice, I had a succession of successes and failures, and I think I had more failure days. In the quadruple jump, there was a period when I was successful or unsuccessful once a month.
He continued, “I achieved my dream of winning back-to-back Olympic titles, but I couldn’t achieve my dream of jumping a quadruple and a half jump at the Olympics. I thought that the days of my efforts up until now were in vain," he confessed frankly.
Hanyu, who has made brilliant achievements, said, "Dreams don't come true. Effort doesn't come true. Only a limited number of people can achieve their dreams even if they work hard. I think there are times when people give up due to social unreasonableness." "My life has been a series of many choices. I don't know if all of those choices were correct. Now that I've made the choice, I don't know if it's correct or wrong." Definitely.
However, "I just want all my choices to have meaning. Even if I fail or get injured due to my choices, I want them to have meaning. Even if you think it doesn't make sense at the time, when you look back, it does." I want to live as if it happened.The challenge continues.I will continue.I think I will be worried about the choices I make in the future, but I will think that there is a future because I made this choice. I will continue to choose," he insisted.
The award was established in 1952 to commemorate the achievements of novelist and founder of Bungeishunju, Kan Kikuchi, in various fields of Japanese culture. The award is given to individuals and groups that have made creative achievements in cultural activities such as literature, movies/theater, newspapers, and broadcasting. This time, in addition to Hanyu, Miyuki Miyabe ,Koki Mitani and others received the award.
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Yuzuru knows in life we make many decisions, and never know if they are the right or wrong ones, they are just decisions. I am sure I was older than 27 when I realised this truth!! (Actually I was the type then to "go with the flow" and maybe was rather impulsive too and didn't give that much thought to the decisions I was making...I wish I had been more thorough and thoughtful as a decision maker in my 20s! I'd certainly have chosen a different career to the one I "chose" in my go-with-the-flow attitude lol!)
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