Emperor Naruhito Empress Masako Shiro Yamazaki and Hiroshi Shiono 20190617

The is a prize awarded by the

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in recognition of academic theses, books, and achievements.

Overviews

An award ceremony has been held every year since 1911. Up to nine of these Prizes are awarded every year. There have been 676 winners and 592 winning works as of 2005. They comprise a certificate, medal, and prize money of one million

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Ceremony

The ceremony is held on the premises of the Japan Academy in Ueno park. The

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has been visiting it since 1949. The three prizes awarded during the ceremony are: * The Imperial Prize * Japan Academy Prize *

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After the ceremony some laureates give lectures on the topics of their research.

Recipients (of Japan Academy Prize)

* 2020 ** Minoru Ozima *2016 (106th) **

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 ...

Yoshihiro Kawaoka is a virologist specializing in the study of the influenza and Ebola viruses. He holds a professorship in virology in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and at the University of Tokyo, Japan. ...

*2015 (105th) **

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 ...

Hiroaki Mitsuya is a Japanese virologist famous for his role in discovery of the anti-HIV drug zidovudine (AZT) as well as other anti-AIDS drugs including didanosine (ddI) and zalcitabine (ddC). Mitsuya was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki and received his M.D. and Ph. ...

*2014 (104th) **

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 G ...

Takao Kondo is a Japanese biologist and professor of biological science at Nagoya University in Nagoya, Japan. He is best known for reconstituting the circadian clock ''in vitro''. Biography Kondo was born in 1948 in Kariya, Aichi, Japan, and received his ...

Hiraku Nakajima Hiraku Nakajima (Japanese: 中島啓 ''Nakajima Hiraku''; born November 30, 1962) is a Japanese mathematician, and a professor of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo. He will be Internat ...

* 2013 (103rd) **

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 (102nd) **

Takaaki Kajita is a Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamioka Observatory – Kamiokande and its successor, Super-Kamiokande. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Canadian physicist Arthur B. McDonald. On 1 O ...

Shimon Sakaguchi is an immunologist and a Distinguished Professor of Osaka University. He is best known for the discovery of regulatory T cells and to describe their role in the immune system. This discovery is used in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune d ...

*2011 (101st) **

Takurō Mochizuki Takurō Mochizuki (望月拓郎, born 28 August 1972) is a Japanese mathematician at Kyoto University. Overview As a student at the University of Kyoto in 1994, Mochizuki left his undergraduate studies early to become a graduate student in ma ...

- "Study of pure twister D-modules" *2010 (100th) **

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 ...

*2008 (98th) ** Keiji Morokuma - "Theoretical Studies of Design of Structure, Function and Reactivity of Molecules" **

Takaya Hosoka Sharp Takaya Electronics Industry Co. Ltd. is a computer equipment manufacturer mostly owned by Sharp Corporation. Description Some products have been sold directly to original equipment manufacturers under the Takaya brand. One of the many tes ...

- "The Persecution of Jews and Christians in the Early Roman Principate" **

Fumio Ohtake Fumio (written: , , , , , , , or in katakana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese illustrator *Fumio Abe (1922–2006), Japanese politician *Fumio Asaki, Japanese ski jumping sports official *, J ...

- "

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" **

Yoshinori Fujiyoshi Yoshinori is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Yoshinori can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: *義徳, "justice, virtue" *義憲, "justice, constitution" *義法, "justice ...

- "Structure Determination of Membrane Proteins based on the Development of an Innovative Cryo-Electron Microscope" **

Naomasa Nakai Naomasa (written: 直政, 直正, 直方, 尚正 or 尚政) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese samurai *, Japanese samurai *, Japanese ''daimyō'' *, Japanese ''daimyō'' *, Japanese ''daimyō'' * ...

- Study of Active Galactic Nuclei and Super-Massive Black Holes based on VLBI Observations of Water-Vapor Maser Emission **

Akira Hasegawa is a theoretical physicist and engineer who has worked in the US and Japan. He is known for his work in the derivation of the Hasegawa–Mima equation, which describes fundamental plasma turbulence and the consequent generation of zonal flow tha ...

- "Discovery of Optical Soliton Properties in Fibers and of Self-organization of Plasma Turbulence" **

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- "Gene Content, Organization and Molecular Evolution of Plant Organellar Genomes and Sex Chromosomes —Insights from the Case of the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha—" **

Kenji Kangawa Kenji may refer to: *Kenji (given name), a masculine Japanese given name, and list of people & characters with this name *Kenji (era), a Japanese era spanned from 1275 to 1278 * ''Kenji'' (manga) (拳児), a 1980s manga by Matsuda Ryuchi * "Kenji" ...

- "Discovery of Novel Bioactive Peptides with Special Reference to Ghrelin" **

Yoshiyuki Nagai Yoshiyuki is both a masculine Japanese given name and a Japanese surname. Possible writings Yoshiyuki can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: *義幸, "justice, happiness" *義之, "justice ...

- "Elucidation of the Molecular Basis of Paramyxovirus Pathogenicity and Generation of a Novel Class of Expression Vector" *2007 (97th) ** Senzô Hidemura - Agriculture and Society at the Last Stage of Satsuma Feudal Fief —A Study of Moriya Family, a Rural Warrior in Kōyama-Gō— **

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 ...

-Pathogen Recognition by Innate Immunity and its Signaling ** Masaaki Sugiyama - The Mongol Empire and Dai-ön Ulus ** Asahiko Taira - Accretion Tectonics and Evolution of the Japan Islands ** Shinji Kawaji - Experimental Studies of Two-Dimensional Electron Systems" **

Hisashi Yamamoto (born July 16, 1943) is a prominent organic chemist and currently a member of the faculty at the University of Chicago and professor of Chubu University. Life Born in Kobe, Japan, Yamamoto earned a B.S. at Kyoto University in 1967 and a Ph.D. ...

and Kohei Tamao - Exploitation of Chemical and Physical Properties of Main-group Element Compounds based on Flexibility for High Coordination (Joint Research) ** Yukio Hori and Koji Kato - Studies on

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(Joint Research) ** Toshisuke Maruyama - Water Demand-Supply Analysis in Large Spatial Areas Based on Evapotranspiration and Runoff ** Yasushi Miyashita - The Discovery of Associative Memory Neurons in the Cerebral Cortex and Studies of the Cognitive Memory System * 2006 (96th) ** Shuh Narumiya - Studies on the Prostaglandin Receptors ** Shinsaku Iwahara -Electronic Payment and Law **

Kotaro Suzumura was a Japanese economist and professor emeritus of Hitotsubashi University and Waseda University. He graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1966. His research interests were in social choice theory and welfare economics. He was also a Fellow ...

-Welfare Economics beyond Welfarist-consequentialism ** Noboru Mataga - Studies on Molecular Interactions and Chemical Reaction Dynamics of Photo-excited Molecules **

Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy, the process that cells use to destroy and recycle cellular components. Ohsumi is a professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology's Institute of Innovative Research.Yoshinori Ohsumi's He rec ...

-Molecular Mechanism and Physiological Function of Autophagy ** Atsuto Suzuki -Studies of Antineutrino Science **

Ken Sakamura Ken or KEN may refer to: Entertainment * ''Ken'' (album), a 2017 album by Canadian indie rock band Destroyer. * ''Ken'' (film), 1964 Japanese film. * ''Ken'' (magazine), a large-format political magazine. * Ken Masters, a main character in t ...

-Research on the Computer Architecture with High Real-time Performance ** Koki Horikoshi -Studies of Alkaliphilic Microorganisms: Their Diversity, Physiology, and Applications ** Toshio Wagai -Studies on the Foundation and Development of Diagnostic Ultrasound * 2005 (95th) **

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 ...

Tetsuya Shiokawa Tetsuya Shiokawa (塩川鉄也 ''Shiokawa Tetsuya'') is a Japanese politician and member of the House of Representatives for the Japanese Communist Party The is a left-wing to far-left political party in Japan. With approximately 270,000 ...

for "''Recherches sur Pascal''" ("Research on Arithmetic Geometry") ** Shuichiro Kimura for "A History of the German Idea of Welfare State" ** Yukihiko Kiyokawa for "Formation of Modern Industrial

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in Asia — Economic Development, Culture and Job Consciousness" **

Takashi Nakamura is an accomplished Japanese animator and anime director. He is also a founding member of the Japan Animation Creators Association (JAniCA) labor group. Nakamura's 2001 film ''A Tree of Palme'' was an official selection of the Berlin Film Festi ...

for "Theoretical Investigation of the Formation of Black Holes and the Emission of Gravitational Waves" ** Hiroyuki Sakaki and

Hideo Ohno Hideo Ohno ( ja, 大野英男; Hideo Ōno; born 18 December 1954, Tokyo) is a Japanese physicist. He is the 22nd president of Tohoku University, succeeding Susumu Satomi in April 2018. Biography Ohno received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from ...

for "Studies on

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of Electrons by Semiconductor Nanostructures and

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" ** Hiroshi Kida for "Studies on Control of

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— Mechanism of Emergence of Pandemic Influenza Virus Strains in Poultry, Domestic Animals and Humans, and Molecular Basis of the Neutralization of Viral Infectivity with Antibodies" ** Yukihiko Kitamura for "Development and Malignant Transformation of Mast Cells and Interstitial Cells of Cajal through KIT Receptors" **

Masakatsu Shibasaki is a Japanese chemist. In 1974 he earned his doctorate in chemistry, in the group of Shun’ichi Yamada. He did a post doc with Elias J. Corey at Harvard. He returned to Japan and became a professor in 1977 at Teikyō University and moved t ...

for "Studies on the Development of Asymmetric Catalysts and its Application to Medicinal Chemistry" * 2004 (94th) **

Takafusa Nakamura was a Japanese economist who was a specialist in the Japanese economy. After graduating from the Economics Department of Tokyo University, he worked as an assistant, lecturer, and assistant professor in the Education Department of the same univer ...

Hiroo Kanamori is a Japanese seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of earthquakes and the tectonic processes that cause them. Career Kanamori and American seismologist Thomas C. Hanks developed the moment magnitud ...

** Akira Suzuki **

Akira Fujishima is a Japanese chemist and president of Tokyo University of Science. He is known for significant contributions to the discovery and research of photocatalytic and superhydrophilic properties of titanium dioxide (TiO2), which is also known as th ...

* 2003 (93rd) **

Mitsuhiro Yanagida is a Japanese molecular biologist known for research on cell cycle and chromosome structure using the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. He was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society on 11 May 2000. Education and early life Yana ...

- Regulation of Cell Cycle and Chromosome Segregation **

Noboru Karashima was a Japanese historian, writer and Professor Emeritus in University of Tokyo, Japan. He also served as Professor Emeritus at the Taisho University, Japan. He was a prominent scholar of Asia in the studies of south Indian and South Asian histori ...

- History and Society in South India: The Cholas to Vijayanagar ** Mari Nomura - The Jews in Vienna **

Kenji Fukaya Kenji Fukaya (Japanese: 深谷賢治, ''Fukaya Kenji'') is a Japanese mathematician known for his work in symplectic geometry and Riemannian geometry. His many fundamental contributions to mathematics include the discovery of the Fukaya cat ...

- Research in

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** Koichi Itoh, Hiizu Iwamura and Minoru Kinoshita - Study of Molecular Magnet (Joint Research) ** Yasutoshi Senoo - Researches on Fluid Dynamics of Centrifugal Turbomachines ** Yoshimi Okada - Molecular Biology of Plant Virus RNA Genomes and its Application to Agriculture **

Hiroshi Okamoto is a Japanese voice actor. He began acting in 2003 and is affiliated with Aoni Production. He graduated from Momoyama Gakuin University, a private university. Filmography Major roles are highlighted in bold. Television Anime *2003 ** ''Sonic ...

- Studies on Experimental Diabetes and Its Prevention ** Makoto Endo - Studies on the Mechanisms of Mobilization of Calcium Ion in Muscle Cells * 2002 (92nd) **

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 ...

Akiho Miyashiro was a Japanese geologist. Career Miyashiro was known for his contributions to metamorphic and igneous petrology. He also made contributions to the study of tectonics and meteorites. In the 1960s he introduced the concept of paired metamorphic b ...

* 2001 (91st) **

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 taught ...

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 ...

* 2000 (90th) **

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 ...

** Morikazu Toda **

Tadatsugu Taniguchi is a Japanese immunologist known for his pioneer research on Interferons and Interferon regulatory factors. Contribution Taniguchi's work is mostly focused on immunity and oncogenesis, in particular on the mechanisms of signal transduction a ...

* 1999 (89th) **

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 Universi ...

Nobutaka Hirokawa (born March 25, 1946) is a Japanese neuroscientist and cell biologist famous for research on the kinesin superfamily of motor proteins. He has been President and Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Human Frontier Science Program since 2012. C ...

* 1998 (88th) **

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 ...

Yasutaka Ihara Yasutaka Ihara (伊原康隆, ''Ihara Yasutaka''; born 1938, Tokyo Prefecture) is a Japanese mathematician and professor emeritus at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences. His work in number theory includes Ihara's lemma and the Ihara ...

* 1997 (87th) **

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 ...

Norio Kaifu was a Japanese astronomer. He was best known as the president of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) from 2012 to 2015. He directed the Subaru telescope project, which housed the largest monolithic primary mirror in the world from its com ...

* 1996 (86th) **

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 of ...

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** Shinzo Watanabe **

Masatoshi Takeichi is a Japanese cell biologist known for his identification of the cadherin class of adhesion molecules, which plays important roles in the construction of tissues. He shared the 2005 Japan Prize with Erkki Ruoslahti for "fundamental contribution ...

* 1995 (85th) **

Ryōji Noyori is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001, Noyori shared a half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the prize went to K. Barry Sharpless for his ...

** Shun'ichi Amari * 1994 (84th) **

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 ...

* 1993 (83rd) **

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 ...

- "A Study of the Ritual Theatres in China" ** Yasuo Tanaka - "The Relativistic Properties of Celestial X-ray Sources" **

Takashi Negishi is a Japanese neo- Walrasian economist. Career Negishi graduated Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo in 1956 and received a PhD in Economics from University of Tokyo in 1963. Contributions Negishi's research has provided a wide range of e ...

- "History of Economic Theory" **

Akito Arima was a Japanese nuclear physics, nuclear physicist and politician, known for the interacting boson model. Personal life Arima was born 1930 in Osaka. He studied at the University of Tokyo, where he received his doctorate in 1958. He became a rese ...

- "Theoretical Studies on Dynamical Models and Electromagnetic Interactions of Atomic Nuclei" **

Michio Jimbo is a Japanese mathematician working in mathematical physics and is a professor of mathematics at Rikkyo University. He is a grandson of the linguist . Career After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1974, he studied under Mikio Sato at t ...

- "Studies on Solvable Lattice Models and

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Takanori Okoshi Takanori Okoshi (大越孝敬; born September 16, 1932) is a noted Japanese professor of electrical engineering, now retired, and an amateur composer of over 30 pieces of chamber music for quartet or sextet. Okoshi was born in Tokyo, where his ...

- "Research on Coherent Optical Fiber Communications" ** Toshiro Kinoshita - "Genetical Studies on the Interaction between Cytoplasmic and Nuclear Genomes, and the Application of These Studies to Actual Crop Breeding" ** Hajime Yamamoto - "Use of Lasers for Caries Prevention and Other Applications in Dentistry" ** Keiya Tada and Goro Kikuchi - "Studies on Hyperglycinemia (Joint Research)" * 1992 (82nd) **

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 ...

Kenichi Honda Kenichi Honda (本多健一, August 23, 1925 – February 26, 2011) was a Japanese chemist. He made a significant contribution to the discovery and characterization of photocatalytic properties of titanium dioxide (TiO2), for which he shared the ...

* 1991 (81st) **

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 ...

Tomisaku Kawasaki was a Japanese pediatrician who first described the condition now known as Kawasaki disease in the 1960s. Alongside rheumatic heart disease, Kawasaki disease is considered to be the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children worldwide. ...

* 1990 (80th) **

Koji Nakanishi was a Japanese chemist who studied bioorganic chemistry and natural products. He served as Centennial Professor of Chemistry and chair of the Chemistry Department at Columbia University. Early life Nakanishi was born in Hong Kong on May 11, 192 ...

Masahiko Aoki Masahiko Aoki (April 1, 1938 – July 15, 2015) was a Japanese economist, Tomoye and Henri Takahashi Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies in the Economics Department, and Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and ...

** Shigeru Iitaka,

Shigefumi Mori is a Japanese mathematician, known for his work in algebraic geometry, particularly in relation to the classification of three-folds. Career Mori completed his Ph.D. titled "The Endomorphism Rings of Some Abelian Varieties" under Masayoshi Nagat ...

Yujiro Kawamata Yujiro Kawamata (born 1952) is a Japanese mathematician working in algebraic geometry. Career Kawamata completed the master's course at the University of Tokyo in 1977. He was an Assistant at the University of Mannheim from 1977 to 1979 and a M ...

Satoshi Ōmura is a Japanese biochemist. He is known for the discovery and development of hundreds of pharmaceuticals originally occurring in microorganisms. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with William C. Campbell fo ...

* 1989 (79th) **

Sengaku Mayeda Sengaku Mayeda is a Japanese writer, philosopher and teacher, known for his writings on Indian philosophy and Adi Shankara. He was honoured by the Government of India, in 2014, by bestowing on him the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian awar ...

Masatoshi Koshiba was a Japanese physicist and one of the founders of neutrino astronomy. His work with the neutrino detectors Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande was instrumental in detecting solar neutrinos, providing experimental evidence for the solar neutrino pr ...

* 1988 (78th) **

Masaki Kashiwara is a Japanese mathematician. He was a student of Mikio Sato at the University of Tokyo. Kashiwara made leading contributions towards algebraic analysis, microlocal analysis, D-module, ''D''-module theory, Hodge theory, sheaf theory and represent ...

* 1986 (76th) **

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 ...

Masayoshi Nagata Masayoshi Nagata (Japanese: 永田雅宜 ''Nagata Masayoshi''; February 9, 1927 – August 27, 2008) was a Japanese mathematician, known for his work in the field of commutative algebra. Work Nagata's compactification theorem shows that var ...

Hitoshi Nozaki , sometimes spelled Hitosi, was a Japanese chemist specializing in the field of organic chemistry, known as the head of Japanese organic chemistry research, and one of the discoverers of Nozaki–Hiyama–Kishi reaction. He was Emeritus Professor ...

Yasutomi Nishizuka was a prominent Japanese biochemist and made important contributions to the understanding of molecular mechanism of signal transduction across the cell membrane. In 1977, he discovered protein kinase C, which plays significant roles in a varie ...

* 1985 (75th) **

Toshihide Maskawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one quarter of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three famili ...

, Makoto Kobayashi **

Tomoko Ohta Tomoko (ともこ, トモコ) is a female Japanese given name. Like many Japanese names, Tomoko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: * 友子 - "friendly child" * 知子 - "knowing child" * 智子 - "wise child" * 朋子 ...

Yoshiaki Arata was a Japanese physicist. Arata was one of the pioneering researchers into nuclear fusion in Japan and a former professor at Osaka University. He was reported to be a strong nationalist, speaking only Japanese in public. He received the Order o ...

Shosaku Numa was a Japanese neuroscientist known for his pioneering research on neurotransmitters and ion channels, and for his contributions to the understanding of molecular mechanisms of neural signalling. Biography Numa was born in Wakayama, Japan and ...

* 1984 (74th) **

Zuiho Yamaguchi is a Japanese Buddhologist and Tibetologist. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo, where he also took his doctorate degree in Sanskrit in 1954. He also studied in Paris and for many years was a researcher at the Tōyō Bunko. He ...

* 1982 (72nd) **

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 ...

* 1979 (69th) **

Hiroshi Inose was a Japanese electrical engineer, known as the inventor of the Time-Slot Interchange system (TSI), which is basic to modern digital telephone switches. Inose was highly involved within his career. He held positions such as director general, ch ...

* 1978 (68th) **

Kiyosi Itô was a Japanese mathematician who made fundamental contributions to probability theory, in particular, the theory of stochastic processes. He invented the concept of stochastic integral and stochastic differential equation, and is known as the fo ...

* 1977 (67th) **

Yoshimasa Hirata was a Japanese organic chemist. Biography Hirata was born in Yamaguchi, Japan in 1915. He received a Bachelor of Science from the Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo) in 1941, and then joined the faculty there as a Lecturer ...

Syun-Ichi Akasofu is the founding director of the International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), serving in that position from the center's establishment in 1998 until January 2007. Previously he had been director of the univer ...

* 1976 (66th) **

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 ...

Mikio Sato is a Japanese mathematician known for founding the fields of algebraic analysis, hyperfunctions, and holonomic quantum fields. He is a professor at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Kyoto. Education Sato studied at the Unive ...

** Tamio Yamakawa * 1974 (64th) **

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 ...

** Michio Suzuki **

Jun-ichi Nishizawa was a Japanese engineer and inventor. He is known for his electronic inventions since the 1950s, including the PIN diode, static induction transistor, static induction thyristor, SIT/SITh. His inventions contributed to the development of in ...

* 1973 (63rd) ** Jun Kondo **

Sasagu Arai is a Japanese researcher of early Christianity and Gnosticism. Arai is a Doctor of Theology Professor emeritus of University of Tokyo and Keisen University, and a member of the Japan Academy. He graduated (1962) at Erlangen-Nürnberg University in ...

* 1972 (62nd) **

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 dys ...

* 1971 (61st) **

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. He ...

* 1970 (60th) **

Susumu Nakanishi is a scholar of Japanese literature, particularly of the ''Man'yōshū''. Overview He is the honorary president of the Nara Prefecture Complex of Manyo Culture, president of the Koshinokuni Museum of Literature, and has been a guest lecture ...

Heisuke Hironaka is a Japanese mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970 for his contributions to algebraic geometry. Career Hironaka entered Kyoto University in 1949. After completing his undergraduate studies at Kyoto University, he received his ...

* 1968 (58th) **

Motoo Kimura (November 13, 1924 – November 13, 1994) was a Japanese biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968. He became one of the most influential theoretical population geneticists. He is remembered in geneti ...

* 1967 (57th) **

Osamu Hayaishi , was a Japanese biochemist, physiologist, and military physician. He discovered Oxygenases at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health in 1955. Citing his "outstanding and pioneering contributions ...

* 1965 (55th) **

Hiroshi Tamiya was an important Japanese plant biochemist and microbiologist. He is notable for mid-twentieth century research he did on the thermodynamics of the light-independent reactions of photosynthesis. Life Tamiya was a student of Keita Shibata, a p ...

Leo Esaki Reona Esaki (江崎玲於奈 ''Esaki Reona'', born March 12, 1925), also known as Leo Esaki, is a Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his work in electron tunneling in ...

* 1964 (54th) **

Kazuhiko Nishijima (4 October 1926 – 15 February 2009) was a Japanese physicist who made significant contributions to particle physics. He was professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University until his death in 2009. He was born in Tsuchiura ...

* 1962 (52nd) **

Kenkichi Iwasawa Kenkichi Iwasawa ( ''Iwasawa Kenkichi'', September 11, 1917 – October 26, 1998) was a Japanese mathematician who is known for his influence on algebraic number theory. Biography Iwasawa was born in Shinshuku-mura, a town near Kiryū, in Gun ...

Kenichi Fukui was a Japanese chemist, known as the first Asian person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Fukui was co-recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roald Hoffmann, for their independent investigations into the mechanisms of ch ...

Hamao Umezawa was a Japanese scientist who discovered several antimicrobial agents and enzyme inhibitors. Umezawa was born in Obama, Fukui, Obama City, Fukui Prefecture, as the second son in a family of seven children. After graduating from Musashi Junior and ...

* 1961 (51st) **

Shigeo Kishibe was a Japanese musicologist specializing in the study of East Asian music. Life Kishibe was born in Tokyo in the district of Kanda-Jinbōchō, to Fukuo Kishibe, an educator and children's writer. He was first exposed to music through music in his ...

* 1959 (49th) **

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 ...

* 1958 (48th) **

* 1957 (47th) **

Kanda Nobuo Professor was a Japanese historian who specialized in early Manchu history. Biography He was born in Kyoto. He spent his early life in Taipei until he entered Tokyo Imperial University in 1941. He was appointed to an assistant professor in 194 ...

Kunihiko Kodaira was a Japanese mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, and as the founder of the Japanese school of algebraic geometers. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1954, being the first Japanese ...

* 1956 (46th) **

Takahiko Yamanouchi was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for group theory in quantum mechanics first proposed by Yamanouchi in Japan. Yamanouchi was born in Kanagawa, graduated in physics from the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1926. From 1926 to 1927 he w ...

* 1954 (44th) ** Tadashi Nakayama **

Hisashi Kuno was professor at the Institute of Geology, University of Tokyo. He was first son of Kamenosuke Kuno (a painter of the Japanese classical school) and Tome Kuno. Life There was a field excursion after the 1930 North Izu earthquake southwest of T ...

* 1953 (43rd) ** Guan Jing * 1952 (42nd) ** Hideyo Arisaka * 1951 (41st) **

Kiyoshi Oka was a Japanese mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of several complex variables. Biography Oka was born in Osaka. He went to Kyoto Imperial University in 1919, turning to mathematics in 1923 and graduating in 1924. He was in ...

Takeshi Nagata was a Japanese geophysicist. He studied geomagnetism. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society The Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society is the highest award given by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). The RAS Counc ...

* 1950 (40th) **

Yūkichi Takeda was a scholar of Japanese literature. Biography He was born in the Nihonbashi Ward of Tokyo City (modern-day Chūō Ward, Tokyo). He became a lecturer as Kokugakuin University Kokugakuin University (國學院大學; ''Kokugakuin Daigaku'' ...

Kinichiro Sakaguchi was a Japanese agricultural chemist and microbiologist. He was born in Niigata prefecture. He is the inventor of the ''Sakaguchi flask'', a round-bottom long-neck shake flask. In Jōetsu, Niigata, a sake Sake, also spelled saké ( ; als ...

* 1949 (39th) **

Kenjiro Shoda Kenjiro Shoda (Japanese: 正田建次郎 ''Shōda Kenjirō''; February 25, 1902 – March 20, 1977) was a Japanese mathematician. Early life and career Kenjiro Shoda was born on February 25, 1902 in Tatebayashi, Gunma to a wealthy family. ...

* 1948 (38th) **

Issac Koga was an inventor and scientist. Early life and education He was the eldest of seven children born in Tashiro Village (now Tosu), Saga Prefecture. In July 1920, at the age of 20, he started to study at the Department of Electrical Engineering a ...

** Masao Kotani * 1945 (35th) ** Kinpei Matsuoka * 1941 (31st) **

Seiichi Iwao Seiichi (written: , , , , , , , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese karateka *, Japanese cult member *, Japanese politician *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese philosopher *, Japanese art di ...

Shinobu Ishihara Shinobu Ishihara (石原忍, ''Ishihara Shinobu'', Tokyo, September 25, 1879 – Izu Peninsula, January 3, 1963) was a Japanese ophthalmologist who created the Ishihara color test to detect colour blindness. He was an army surgeon. Early li ...

Ukichiro Nakaya was a Japanese physicist and science essayist known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences. He is credited with making the first artificial snowflakes. Life and research Nakaya was born near the Katayamazu hot springs in Kaga ...

* 1940 (30th) **

Mokichi Saitō was a Japanese people, Japanese poet of the Taishō period, a member of the Araragi (magazine), Araragi school of tanka, and a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist Shigeta Saitō (:ja:斎藤茂太, ''Japanese Wikipedia article'') is his first son, the ...

* 1937 (27th) **

Ryōzō Kanehira was a Japanese botanist. Kanehira undertook botanical expeditions into Taiwan, Peru, Palau, Kiribati, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea as well as describing the flora of Japa ...

* 1932 (22nd) **

Motonori Matuyama was a Japanese geophysicist who was (in the late 1920s) the first to provide systematic evidence that the Earth's magnetic field had been reversed in the early Pleistocene and to suggest that long periods existed in the past in which the polari ...

** Shintaro Uda **

Seishi Kikuchi was a Japanese physicist, known for his explanation of the Kikuchi lines that show up in diffraction patterns of diffusely scattered electrons. Biography Seishi Kikuchi was born and grew up in Tokyo. He graduated in 1926 from Tokyo Imperial Un ...

* 1931 (21st) **

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 ...

* 1930 (20th) **

Okuro Oikawa was a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovered 8 asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ...

* 1929 (19th) **

Hisao Tanabe was a Japanese musicologist responsible for initiating the study of Asian music in Japan. Career Heisao was learning the principles of musicology from a French missionary when he began his studies in 1920, researching the musical traditions of ...

Kenzo Futaki was a Japanese doctor who studied infectious diseases. Futaki was educated at Tokyo Imperial University. He received the prestigious Order of Culture (Bunka Kunshō) from the Emperor for his academic contributions, which included identifying th ...

* 1928 (18th) **

Yuzuru Hiraga Vice Admiral Baron was a career naval officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy, Doctor of Engineering and head of the engineering school of Tokyo Imperial University and a leading Japanese naval architect in the 1910s and 1920s, responsible for desi ...

* 1927 (17th) **

Takenoshin Nakai was a Japanese botanist. In 19191919. Notulae and Plantas Japoniae at Koreae X XI. The Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 33(395): 193–194. and 19301930. Plantae Japonicae & Koreanae. The Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 44(526): 508. he published papers on ...

Keizo Dohi (1866-1931) was a Japanese professor of dermatology and syphilis, and chair of the department of dermatology and syphilis at the University of Tokyo. Career He trained at the Vienna School of Dermatology, and published his first article in 189 ...

* 1926 (16th) ** ** * 1925 (15th) ** * 1924 (14th) ** ** **

Umetaro Suzuki was a Japanese scientist, born in what is now part of Makinohara, Shizuoka, Japan. He was a member of the Imperial Academy, and a recipient of the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure and the Order of Culture. His research was among t ...

** * 1923 (13th) **''No award'' * 1922 (12th) ** ** * 1921 (11th) ** ** * 1920 (10th) ** **

Sakuhei Fujiwhara was a Japanese meteorologist who became the namesake for the Fujiwhara effect. Novelist Jirō Nitta is his nephew and mathematician Masahiko Fujiwara is his grandnephew. Biography Early life Born in the city of Suwa, Nagano Prefecture, Fujiwha ...

Bunzō Hayata was a Japanese botanist noted for his taxonomic work in Japan and Formosa, present day Taiwan. Early life Hayata was born to a devout Buddhist family in Kamo, Niigata on December 2, 1874. When he was 16, Hayata became interested in botany, and ...

* 1919 (9th) ** ** Katsusaburō Yamagiwa ** ** Tokiji Ishikawa * 1918 (8th) **

Fujiro Katsurada was a Japanese parasitologist who discovered a parasite called ''Schistosoma japonicum''. Biography He was born in 1867 to the home of a samurai in Kaga, Ishikawa, and his childhood name was Kohkichi Shoda (庄田豊哉?? ''Shōda ??''). He ...

** * 1917 (7th) ** ** * 1916 (6th) ** ** Tsunetaro Kujirai ** ** Masajiro Kitamura **

Kotaro Honda , born on February 23, 1870 in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture – February 12, 1954) was a Japanese metallurgist and inventor. He invented KS steel (initials from Kichiei Sumitomo), which is a type of magnetic resistant steel that is three times mo ...

* 1915 (5th) ** ** Kametaro Toyama * 1914 (4th) ** ** Shirota Kusakabe * 1913 (3rd) ** ** * 1912 (2nd) ** Jōkichi Takamine

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