Hisashi Hieda

Hisashi Hieda was born on the last day of 1937, which feels almost too neat for a man who spent his career deciding what Japan would watch. He went from Suginami High School to Waseda's School of Education and eventually to the chairmanship of the Fujisankei Communications Group, one of the country's largest media conglomerates. Broadcasting executives are usually invisible by design, so the fact that his name travels outside the industry says something about how long and how firmly he held the wheel. What interests me more than the corporate ladder is the second half of the portfolio. He chairs the Japan Art Association, which runs the Ueno Royal Museum and administers the Praemium Imperiale, and he has served as a director of the Hakone Open-Air Museum. A television man who ends up handing out one of the world's more prestigious arts prizes is not just a broadcaster who collected trophies; he moved from distributing culture to conferring status on it. The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun and the Silver Olympic Order mark the breadth of that reach.

Name (English)

Hisashi Hieda

Name (Japanese)

日枝久

Born

December 31, 1937 (age 88)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Ox

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

businessperson / film producer

High school

Suginami High School

University

School of Education, Waseda University

Awards & achievements

• Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
• 1999 International Emmy Founders Award
• 2000 Silver Olympic Order

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisashi%20Hieda
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9E%9D%E4%B9%85
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11509528

Tags

• Tokyo
• businessperson
• film producer

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.