Culture Day: Order of Culture ceremony and autumn honours for 3,861 people

Le nom du huitième lauréat et la raison de son absence ne figurent pas dans l’article : ils n’ont pas pu être vérifiés.

Normally ne and pas wrap the verb. Before a vowel, ne becomes n’. Check which part of the sentence the negation covers. Ne … plus means “no longer”.

Selon un article de Nippon.com, la cérémonie de remise de l’Ordre de la Culture de l’exercice 2026 s’est tenue le 3 novembre au Palais impérial, à Tokyo.

Selon means “according to”. Put a person or organisation after it as the source. It separates facts the writer checked directly from what another body or report said. Citing a source does not turn a forecast into an accomplished fact.

Pour les noms japonais, seuls ceux dont l’écriture en caractères a pu être confirmée sont donnés en kanji dans la version japonaise.

Est is third-person singular and sont third-person plural of être. They express “is / are” — a state or description. If a past participle follows, it is a different structure such as the passive, so check the words that follow.

Le titre d’un article du Nikkei cite la créatrice lumière Motoko Ishii et d’autres lauréats qui disent vouloir « redoubler d’efforts ».

Qui continues a description of the person or thing just mentioned (“the one that does…”). Because qui is itself the subject of the next verb, do not repeat the subject. The verb agrees with the noun qui refers to.

Le 3 novembre, jour de la Fête de la Culture, l’Ordre de la Culture a été remis au Palais impérial.

Le 15 octobre means “on 15 October”. Distinguish the le before a date from the le that marks a weekly habit like a weekday. Du is de + le and au is à + le, so decide the meaning from the verb and period expressions around them. Their role depends on the group: a range of dates, the date of a bulletin or another complement.

Le nom du huitième lauréat et la raison de son absence ne figurent pas dans l’article : ils n’ont pas pu être vérifiés.

Dans means “in, inside” for places, but also for a scope such as a system or period. With future time, dans deux jours means “in two days”. In the article’s example, check what it is “inside” and which scope it marks. Identify the value of dans in the passage.

ニッポンドットコムが伝えた記事によると、2026年度の文化勲章の親授式が、11月3日に皇居で行われました。

As in “LCPによると”, it shows where the information comes from. What that source reported follows. It is used differently from “私にとって”, which gives one’s own opinion.

11月3日の文化の日、皇居で文化勲章の親授式が行われました。

In “発表しました”, ました makes a verb polite past. The negative is “ませんでした”. Read the actual date together with the date and time in the text.

8人目の受章者の名前と、欠席の理由は、参照した記事には書かれておらず、ここでは確認できませんでした。

できる is the basic verb for ability. The potential form of 受ける is 受けられる. The same られる can also be passive or honorific, so decide from the meaning of the sentence.

受章者8人は先月に発表されていて、天皇陛下が勲章を手渡し、長年の文化の発展への貢献をたたえました。

The て-form links actions in a series, in order or as a reason. In “確認して、出発する” the relation is judged from the content. In “〜ている” it can show an action in progress or a continuing state.

同じ日に発表された秋の叙勲の人数や顔ぶれも、確認できた範囲で整理します。

A explains noun B that follows. It is not only possession: the relation can be belonging, target, content and more. In “政府の案” and “年金の税控除”, read the relation from the context.

同じ11月3日に発表された秋の叙勲は、全体で3,861人でした。

は shows what the sentence is about; an explanation of that topic follows. は and が are not always interchangeable: contrast and the way information is placed change.