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The is a prestigious honor conferred to two of the recipients of the Japan Academy Prize.

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It is awarded in two categories: humanities and natural sciences. The

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and

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visit the awarding ceremony and present a vase to the awardees.

Laureates

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Makoto Fujita , born Makoto Harada (April 13, 1933 – February 17, 2010), was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, the son of silent-film actor Rintarō Fujima, and started his career as a comedian in 1952. Acting Roles Fujita appeared in b ...

(109th) * 2018 — , Chikashi Toyoshima (108th) * 2017 — (107th) * 2016 —

Kazutoshi Mori is a Japanese molecular biologist known for research on unfolded protein response. He is a professor of Biophysics at the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, and shared the 2014 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award with Peter W ...

(106th) * 2015 —

Hideo Hosono , ForMemRS, is a Japanese material scientist most known for the discovery of iron-based superconductors. Career and research Hosono is also a pioneer in developing transparent oxide semiconductors: he proposed a material design concept for a t ...

* 2014 —

Isamu Akasaki was a Japanese engineer and physicist, specializing in the field of semiconductor technology and Nobel Prize laureate, best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride ( GaN) p-n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness ...

* 2013 — ,

Yoshinori Tokura is a Japanese physicist, Professor at University of Tokyo and Director of Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) at RIKEN. He is a specialist in physics of strongly correlated electron systems and known for his work in high-temperature su ...

* 2012 — , Keiichi Namba * 2011 — , (101st)Japan Academy
101st 20 June 2011
retrieved 2011-08-15 * 2010 — ,

Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He serves as the director of Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) Research and Application and a professor at the Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences at Kyoto ...

(100th)Japan Academy
91st-100th
retrieved 2011-08-15 * 2009 — , (99th) * 2008 — (98th) * 2007 — ,

Shizuo Akira (born January 27, 1953 in Higashiōsaka) is a professor at the Department of Host Defense, Osaka University, Japan. He has made ground-breaking discoveries in the field of immunology, most significantly in the area of innate host defense mechani ...

(97th) * 2006 — Shuh Narumiya (96th) * 2005 —

Kazuya Kato is a Japanese mathematician. He grew up in the prefecture of Wakayama in Japan. He attended college at the University of Tokyo, from which he also obtained his master's degree in 1975, and his PhD in 1980. He was a professor at Tokyo University ...

(95th) * 2004 — ,

Takeshi Yasumoto Takeshi ( in hiragana or in katakana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings *武, "warrior" *毅, "strong" *猛, "fierce" *健, "healthy" *剛, "sturdy" *彪, "spotted" *威, "intimidate" *壮, "robust" *丈, "length" *雄, "mascu ...

(94th) * 2003 — Mitsuhiro Yanagida (93rd) * 2002 — ,

Sumio Iijima is a Japanese physicist and inventor, often cited as the inventor of carbon nanotubes. Although carbon nanotubes had been observed prior to his "invention", Iijima's 1991 paper generated unprecedented interest in the carbon nanostructures and ...

(92nd) * 2001 —

Fumio Hayashi is a Japanese economist. He is a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo. Hayashi received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tokyo and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1980. He has taugh ...

Makoto Asashima is a Japanese developmental biologist known for his pioneer research on Activin. He is Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo and Yokohama City University. He is also Vice President of the Tokyo University of Science. Contribution Asashi ...

(91st) * 2000 — ,

Shigekazu Nagata is a Japanese biochemist, best known for research on apoptosis, the process of programmed cell death occurring in multi-cellular organisms. Contribution Nagata identified Interferon in 1980 and Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in 1986 ...

(90th)Japan Academy
81st-90th
retrieved 2011-08-15 * 1999 — ,

Yoshito Kishi is a Japanese chemist who is the Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. He is known for his contributions to the sciences of organic synthesis and total synthesis. Kishi was born in Nagoya, Japan and attended Nagoya Univers ...

(89th) * 1998 —

Toshio Yanagida (born 1946) is a Japanese biophysicist famous for his pioneer research in single molecule biology, and made important contributions to single molecule fluorescence microscopy. Contribution Yanagida has been leading the development of single m ...

(88th) * 1997 —

Shigetada Nakanishi Shigetada Nakanishi (born January 7, 1942) is a Japanese biochemist and neuroscientist. Both a medical doctor and biomedical researcher by training, Nakanishi is the director of the Osaka Bioscience Institute and professor emeritus at Kyoto Unive ...

(87th) * 1996 —

Tasuku Honjo is a Japanese physician-scientist and immunologist. He won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and is best known for his identification of programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1). He is also known for his molecular identification o ...

(86th) * 1995 — , (85th) * 1994 —

Makoto Kumada was a Japanese chemist and was a Professor of Chemistry first at Osaka City University until his retirement in 1983 at Kyoto University in Japan. In 1972, Kumada's group reported nickel-catalyzed cross coupling reactions nearly concurrently w ...

Hideki Sakurai is a Japanese chemist. He discovered the Sakurai reaction The Sakurai reaction (also known as the Hosomi–Sakurai reaction) is the chemical reaction of carbon electrophiles (such as a ketone shown here) with allyltrimethylsilane catalyzed by ...

(84th) * 1993 —

Issei Tanaka is a Japanese writer and professor at the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imp ...

, Yasuo Tanaka (83rd) * 1992 — ,

Tadamitsu Kishimoto is a Japanese immunologist known for research on IgM and cytokines, most famously, interleukin 6. He did postdoctoral work under Kimishige Ishizaka, the discoverer of IgE at Johns Hopkins University. He is listed by the Institute for Scientif ...

(82nd) * 1991 — ,

Akira Tonomura was a Japanese physicist, best known for his development of electron holography and his experimental verification of the Aharonov–Bohm effect. Biography Tonomura was born in Hyōgo, Japan, and graduated from the University of Tokyo with a d ...

(81st) * 1990 — Koji Nakanishi (80th)Japan Academy
71st-80th
retrieved 2011-08-15 * 1989 — , (79th) * 1988 — (78th) * 1987 — , Toshimitsu Yamazaki (77th) * 1986 —

Masao Ito was a Japanese neuroscientist, and director of the Riken Brain Science Institute. Overviews Masao Ito was the main force behind Japanese neuroscience and its international recognition for many years. He was very active in the International Br ...

(76th) * 1985 — Ryo Sato (75th) * 1984 — , Gakuzo Tamura (74th) * 1983 — Teruaki Mukaiyama (73rd) * 1982 — ,

Shizuo Kakutani was a Japanese-American mathematician, best known for his eponymous fixed-point theorem. Biography Kakutani attended Tohoku University in Sendai, where his advisor was Tatsujirō Shimizu. At one point he spent two years at the Institute for ...

(72nd) * 1981 — Yasuiti Nagano (71st) * 1980 — (70th)Japan Academy
61st-70th
retrieved 2011-08-15 * 1979 —

Yoshihide Kozai Yoshihide Kozai (1 April 1928 – 5 February 2018) was a Japanese astronomer specialising in celestial mechanics. He is best known for discovering, simultaneously with Michael Lidov, the Kozai mechanism, for which he received the Imperial Pri ...

(69th) * 1978 —

Kiyoshi Itō Kiyoshi, (きよし or キヨシ), is a Japanese given name, also spelled Kyoshi. Possible meanings *'' Kyōshi'', a form of Japanese poetry *Kyōshi, a Japanese honorific Possible writings *清, "cleanse" *淳, "pure" *潔, "undefiled" *清志, ...

(68th) * 1977 — (67th) * 1976 —

Takashi Sugimura was a Japanese biochemist, famous for research on chemical carcinogens. He received the Japan Prize for the contribution to establishment of fundamental concept on causes of cancer. He was elected as President of the Japan Academy on October 1 ...

(66th) * 1975 — , (65th) * 1974 — ,

Kimishige Ishizaka was a Japanese immunologist who, with his wife Teruko Ishizaka, discovered the antibody class Immunoglobulin E (IgE) in 1966–1967. Their work was regarded as a major breakthrough in the understanding of allergy. He was awarded the 1973 Gairdn ...

(64th) * 1973 — , Jun Kondo (63rd) * 1972 — ,

Setsuro Ebashi was a prominent Japanese physiologist who uncovered the regulatory role of calcium in cells. He is famous for the discovery of Troponin in 1965, which is integral to muscle contraction, as well as for the contribution of diagnosis of muscular d ...

(62nd) * 1971 — ,

Chushiro Hayashi was a Japanese astrophysicist. Hayashi tracks on the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram are named after him. Hayashi was born in Kyoto and enrolled at the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1940, earning his BSc in Physics after 2½ years, in 1942. ...

(61st) * 1970 — , (60th)Japan Academy
51st-60th
retrieved 2011-08-15 * 1969 — Ryogo Kubo (59th) * 1968 —

Tatsuo Nishida was a professor at Kyoto University. His work encompasses research on a variety of Tibeto-Burman languages, he made great contributions in particular to the deciphering of the Tangut language. Biography Born in Osaka, Nishida graduated from the K ...

(58th) * 1967 — Kōsaku Yosida (57th) * 1966 — (56th) * 1965 — (55th) * 1964 — Kiyoshi Mutō (54th) * 1963 — (53rd) * 1962 — Tomoichi Sasabuchi (52nd) * 1961 — (51st) * 1960 — , Takuji Ito, , Aki Uyeno, Taka Yanagisawa, (50th)Japan Academy
41st-50th
retrieved 2011-08-15 * 1959 — Isao Imai (49th) * 1958 — (48th) * 1957 —

Hajime Nakamura was a Japanese Orientalist, Indologist, philosopher and academic of Vedic, Hindu and Buddhist scriptures. Biography Nakamura was born in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. In 1943 he graduated from the Department of Literature at Tokyo Imperia ...

(47th) * 1956 —

Masuzo Shikata was a Japanese chemist and one of the pioneers in electrochemistry. Together with his mentor and colleague, Czech chemist and inventor Jaroslav Heyrovský, he developed the first polarograph, a type of electrochemical analyzing machine, and co-a ...

, Isamu Tachi (46th) * 1955 —

Yoshio Fujita Yoshio Fujita (''藤田良雄'', 28 September 1908 – 13 January 2013) was a Japanese astronomer known for his contributions on spectroscopic observations of low temperature stars. He also served as president of the Japan Academy from April 199 ...

(45th) * 1954 — , (44th) * 1953 —

Tomizo Yoshida was a prominent Japanese pathologist, famous for discovering the Yoshida sarcoma. In addition, he is known for demonstrating the chemical-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in rats with his mentor Takaoki Sasaki. Yoshida received the Imperial Prize ...

(43rd) * 1952 — , (42nd) * 1951 — Yoshiyuki Toyama (41st) * 1950 —

Shoichi Sakata was a Japanese physicist and Marxist who was internationally known for theoretical work on the subatomic particles.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Sakata Shōichi''" in ; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, '' ...

(40th)Japan Academy
31st-40th
retrieved 2011-08-15 * 1949 — (39th) * 1948 — Saburo Ienaga (38th) * 1947 — (37th) * 1946 —

Hakaru Masumoto Hakaru Masumoto (1895–1987) was a pioneer in metal and alloy research. He discovered numerous superior and unique alloys, and contributed to improving the performance of precision machinery. A student of Kotaro Honda, Masumoto developed a mag ...

(36th) * 1945 — Tokuhichi Mishima, , (35th) * 1944 — (34th) * 1943 — , ,

Hitoshi Kihara was a Japanese geneticist known for his work on the genetics of wheat. Biography Hitoshi Kihara was born on 21 October 1893 in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido Imperial University and served as a professor a ...

(33rd) * 1942 — (32nd) * 1941 — ,

Kinjiro Okabe was a Japanese electrical engineering researcher and professor who made major contributions to magnetron and radar development. He did work after the Second World War on medical instruments using ultrasounds. Career Split-anode magnetron On ...

, (31st) * 1940 — ,

Hideki Yukawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate for his prediction of the pi meson, or pion. Biography He was born as Hideki Ogawa in Tokyo and grew up in Kyoto with two older brothers, two older sisters, and two yo ...

, (30th)Japan Academy
21st-30th
retrieved 2011-08-15 * 1939 — , (29th) * 1938 — ''No award'' (28th) * 1937 — , Yasujiro Niwa (27th) * 1936 — , Takaoki Sasaki,

(26th) * 1935 —

Shimpei Ogura was a Japanese linguist who studied the Korean language. In the 1920s, Ogura made the initial breakthroughs in the decipherment of the ''hyangga'' songs, which are now key sources on Old Korean. Ogura conducted an extensive national survey of Kor ...

, (25th) * 1934 — Noboru Niida, (24th) * 1933 — , Bunsuke Suzuki (23rd) * 1932 —

Kyōsuke Kindaichi was a Japanese linguist, chiefly known for his dictations of yukar, or sagas of the Ainu people, as well as his study of the Matagi dialect. He is the author of the dictionary '' Meikai Kokugo Jiten''. Biography Kindaichi was born in Morioka, ...

Kiyoo Wadati was an early seismologist at the Central Meteorological Observatory of Japan (now known as the Japan Meteorological Agency), researching deep ( subduction zone) earthquakes. His name is attached to the Wadati–Benioff zone. It was Wadati's 19 ...

(22nd) * 1931 —

Katsutada Sezawa Katsutada Sezawa (, 21 August 1895 – 23 April 1944) was a Japanese geophysicist ( Seismologist). Sezawa's key work was on the mathematical aspects of wave transmission in media of different viscosities and the Sezawa wave mode of surface wave ...

(21st) * 1930 — (20th)Japan Academy
11th-20th
retrieved 2011-08-15 * 1929 — (19th) * 1928 — ,

Sōichi Kakeya was a Japanese mathematician who worked mainly in mathematical analysis and who posed the Kakeya problem and solved a version of the transportation problem. He received the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy in 1928, and was elected to the Jap ...

(18th) * 1927 — , (17th) * 1926 — , Yoshiaki Ozawa (16th) * 1925 — , (15th) * 1924 — , Takaoki Sasaki (14th) * 1923 — Iichiro Tokutomi, Shigematsu Kakimura,

Yasuhiko Asahina Yasuhiko Asahina (朝比奈泰彦 ''Asahina Yasuhiko''; April 16, 1881 – June 30, 1975) was a Japanese chemist and lichenologist. Early life During his childhood, Asahina developed an interest in plants. In 1902, he enrolled in the School of ...

, Suekichi Kinoshita (13th) * 1922 — Toshio Takamine, (12th) * 1921 — , Gennosuke Fuse (11th) * 1920 — , Mitsumaru Tsujimoto (10th)Japan Academy
1st-10th
retrieved 2011-08-15 * 1919 —

Jun Ishiwara Jun Ishiwara or Atsushi Ishihara (石原純; January 15, 1881 – January 19, 1947) was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for his works on the electronic theory of metals, the theory of relativity and quantum theory. Being the only Japanese ...

(9th) * 1918 — , , (8th) * 1917 —

Torahiko Terada was a Japanese physicist and author who was born in Tokyo. He was a professor at Tokyo Imperial University, a researcher at RIKEN, and worked on a wide range of topics in physics. He was also a professor at the Earthquake Research Institute. As ...

Sasaki Nobutsuna was a ''tanka'' poet and scholar of the Nara and Heian periods of Japanese literature. He was active during the Shōwa period of Japan. Early life Sasaki was born in what is now part of Suzuka city, Mie prefecture. He was considered a child p ...

(7th) * 1916 — , , Ryokichi Inada, (6th) * 1915 —

Hideyo Noguchi , also known as , was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who in 1911 discovered the agent of syphilis as the cause of progressive paralytic disease. Early life Noguchi Hideyo whose childhood name was Seisaku Noguchi was born to a family of farme ...

(5th)Kita, Atsushi. (2005). ''Dr. Noguchi's Journey: A Life of Medical Search and Discovery,'' p. 186; Japan Academy
5 July 1915
retrieved 2011-08-15 * 1914 — Sunao Tawara (4th) * 1913 — , Kumakatsu Kosaka (3rd) * 1912 — , , Sakugoro Hirase, (2nd) * 1911 —

Hisashi Kimura was a Japanese astronomer originally from Kanazawa, Ishikawa. He devoted his career to the study and measurement of variation in latitude, building upon the work of Seth Carlo Chandler, who discovered the Chandler wobble. In 1899, he became the ...

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References

* Kita, Atsushi. (2005)
''Dr. Noguchi's Journey: A Life of Medical Search and Discovery''
(tr., Peter Durfee). Tokyo:

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