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The is a Japanese order, established in 1875 by
Emperor Meiji , also called or , was the 122nd emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession. Reigning from 13 February 1867 to his death, he was the first monarch of the Empire of Japan and presided over the Meiji era. He was the figur ...
. The Order was the first national decoration awarded by the
Japanese government The Government of Japan consists of legislative, executive and judiciary branches and is based on popular sovereignty. The Government runs under the framework established by the Constitution of Japan, adopted in 1947. It is a unitary state, ...
, created on 10 April 1875 by decree of the Council of State. The badge features rays of sunlight from the rising sun. The design of the Rising Sun symbolizes energy as powerful as the rising sunEmbassy of Japan in Australia
in parallel with the "rising sun" concept of Japan ("Land of the Rising Sun"). The Order of the Rising Sun is awarded to people who have rendered distinguished service to the state in various fields except military service. Since there is no order for military achievements under the current Japanese system,
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personnel are awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure for their long engagement in public service. Prior to the end of World War II, it was also awarded for exemplary military service. In 2003, the 7th and 8th Class, which were at the bottom of the Order of the Rising Sun, were abolished, and the upper half of the 1st Class (''勲一等'', ''Kun-ittō'') was separated as the Order of the Paulownia Flowers, which was higher than the Order of the Rising Sun.Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers
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Until 2003, the Order of the Rising Sun was on the same rank as the Order of the Precious Crown, with the Order of the Rising Sun being for men only and the Order of the Precious Crown for women only.栄典制度の概要. p.6
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The Order of the Sacred Treasure was treated as an order of slightly lower rank than the Order of the Rising Sun and the Order of the Precious Crown. For example, the 1st class of the Order of the Sacred Treasure was placed between the 1st class and the 2nd class of the Order of the Rising Sun and the Order of the Precious Crown, and the 2nd class of the Order of the Sacred Treasure was placed between the 2nd class and the 3rd class of the Order of the Rising Sun and the Order of the Precious Crown. Since 2003, the Order of the Rising Sun has been awarded not only to men but also to women, and the Order of the Precious Crown has become a special order given only to female members of the imperial family in Japan and female members of royal families in foreign countries, only when it is specifically necessary for diplomatic ceremonies. The Order of the Rising Sun and the Order of the Sacred Treasure became the same rank of orders, and one of them came to be awarded because of the difference in the viewpoint of contribution to the state.栄典制度の概要. p.5
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The Order of the Rising Sun is awarded with an emphasis on achievements to the state, and the Order of the Sacred Treasure is awarded with an emphasis on long-term public service.勲章の授与基準.
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While it is the third highest order bestowed by the Japanese government, it is however generally the highest ordinarily conferred order. The highest Japanese order, the Order of the Chrysanthemum, is reserved for heads of state or royalty, while the second highest order, the Order of the Paulownia Flowers, is mostly reserved for politicians. The modern version of this honour has been conferred on non-Japanese recipients beginning in 1981 (although several foreigners were given the honor before World War II). The awarding of the Order is administered by the Decoration Bureau of the
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headed by the Japanese Prime Minister. It is awarded in the name of the
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and can be awarded
posthumously Posthumous may refer to: * Posthumous award - an award, prize or medal granted after the recipient's death * Posthumous publication Posthumous publication refers to material that is published after the author's death. This can be because the auth ...
. Since 2003, the number representing rank included in the official name of the order was removed. As a result, although numbers representing ranks were sometimes used in common names, the formal names such as ''勲一等'' (''Kun-ittō'', First Class) and 勲二等 (''Kun-nitō'', Second Class) were no longer used.


Criteria for awarding

The Order of the Rising Sun is awarded to the following;栄典制度の概要. p.10
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* A person who has contributed to the stability and development of the international community. * A person who has contributed to the realization of appropriate tax payment. * A person who has contributed to the promotion of school education or social education. * A person who has contributed to the promotion of culture or sports. * A person who has contributed to the promotion of science and technology. * A person who has contributed to the improvement and promotion of social welfare. * A person who has contributed to the improvement and promotion of the health or public health of citizens. * A person who has contributed to the improvement of the working environment for workers. * A person who has contributed to environmental conservation. * A person who is engaged in the business of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, commerce, mining, industry, information and communications industry, construction industry, real estate industry, finance and insurance industry, service industry, etc., and has contributed to the public interest by developing the economy and industry. * A person who has contributed to the public interest by engaging in the services of an attorney, certified public accountant, patent attorney, etc. * A person who has contributed to the public interest by engaging in the work of newspapers, broadcasting or other news reporting. * A person who has engaged in a public interest business such as Electricity Business, Gas Business, Transportation Business, etc. and has contributed to the promotion of public welfare. * A person other than those listed in the preceding items who has contributed to the public interest. Among them, regulations on the criteria for awarding orders to those who belong to the National Diet, the central and local governments, and courts stipulate in detail which ranks are awarded for each position. For example, the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1st class) is awarded to a person who has made outstanding achievements in his/her position as
Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is ...
, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
President of the House of Councillors The is the presiding officer of the House of Councillors of Japan, and together with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President is also the head of the legislative branch of Japan. The President is elected by members of the Ho ...
, or Chief Justice of Japan. The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1st class) or the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays (2nd class) are awarded to a person who has made outstanding achievements in his/her position as Minister of State,
Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary The Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary assists the Chief Cabinet Secretary in the Government of Japan. Officeholders 2000-03 * Shinzo Abe 2006-07 * Hakubun Shimomura (First Abe Cabinet) 2012-14 * Katsunobu Katō 2021 to present * ...
, Senior Vice-Minister, Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives, Vice President of the House of Councilors, or Judge of the Supreme Court.栄典制度の概要. p.11, p.12
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Classes

The Order was awarded in nine classes until 2003, when the Grand Cordon with Paulownia Flowers was made a separate order, and the lowest two classes were abolished. Since then, it has been awarded in six classes. Conventionally, a diploma is prepared to accompany the insignia of the order, and in some rare instances, the personal signature of the Emperor will have been added. As an illustration of the wording of the text, a translation of a representative 1929 diploma says:


Insignia

The ''star'' for the ''Grand Cordon'' and ''Second Class'' is a silver star of eight points, each point having three alternating silver rays; the central emblem is identical to the badge. It is worn on the left chest for the Grand Cordon, on the right chest for the 2nd Class. The ''badge'' for the ''Grand Cordon to Sixth Classes'' is an eight-pointed badge bearing a central red enamelled sun disc, with gilt points (1st–4th Classes), with four gilt and four silver points (5th Class), or with silver points (6th Class); each point comprises three white enamelled rays. It is suspended from three enamelled paulownia leaves (not chrysanthemum leaves as the Decoration Bureau page claims) on a ribbon in white with red border stripes, worn as a sash from the right shoulder for the Grand Cordon, as a necklet for the 2nd and 3rd Classes and on the left chest for the 4th to 6th Classes (with a rosette for the 4th Class). The ''badge'' for the ''Seventh and Eighth Classes'' consisted of a silver medal in the shape of three paulownia leaves, enamelled for the 7th Class and plain for the 8th Class. Both were suspended on a ribbon, again in white with red border stripes, and worn on the left chest. Both classes were abolished in 2003 and replaced by the Order of the Paulownia Flowers, a single-class order that now ranks above the Order of the Rising Sun. File:Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers.png, Separated into higher order in 2003. (Upper half of the 1st Class before 2003) File:Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun.png, Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1st class) File:The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star.png, The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star (2nd class) File:The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon.png, The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon (3rd class) File:The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette.png, The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette (4th class) File:The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays.png, The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays (5th class) File:The Order of the Rising Sun, Silver Rays.png, The Order of the Rising Sun, Silver Rays (6th class) File:MET 06 432ab F.jpeg, 7th Class (Abolished in 2003) File:MET 06 433ab F.jpeg, 8th Class (Abolished in 2003)


Notable recipients


1st Class, Grand Cordon

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, 2019 * Edmund Allenby, 1921 *
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(1900–1983) * Arthur Barrett, 1921 *
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(1849–1920), Former Australian Prime Minister, 1905 * Carol Bellamy, 2006 *
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(1825–1910), 1909 * Sydney Brenner (1927–2019), 2017 * Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, 2009Japan Today
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(1901–1996) *
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(1849–1913), 1905 * George W. Casey Jr. 2010 * Krasae Chanawongse, 2004 *
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, 2018 *
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, 2016 * Robert Gates, 2017 * Thamir Ghadhban, 2016http://www.iraq.emb-japan.go.jp/Press_Releases/pr160429e.pdf *
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(1961–), Former Australian Prime Minister, 2021 * David L. Goldfein, 2021 https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/files/100182755.pdf , Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Retrieved April 29, 2021. * Sir Stephen Gomersall KCMG, 2015 * Hermann Göring (1893–1946) *
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(1939-), Former Australian Prime Minister, 2013 * Masaru Ibuka (1908–1997), 1997 * Daniel Inouye, 2000 * Henry Jackson (1855–1929)Honor conferred 1917: * S. Jayakumar, 2012 * Karu Jayasuriya (1940–), 2016 * Anerood Jugnauth, 1988 * Henk Kamp, 2014Foreign honours recipients 2014
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* Caroline Kennedy (1957–), 2021 *
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, 1900 * Thanom Kittikachorn * Bert Koenders, 2014 * Komura Jutarō (1855–1911) "The Marquess Komura; A Notable Career,"
''The Times'' (London). 25 November 1911.
* Jorge Kosmas Sifaki 2014 * Sir John Kotelawala (1895–1980), 1954 * V. Krishnamurthy, 2009 * Wataru Kubo, 2001 * Ashwani Kumar, 2017 * Lee Hsien Loong (1952–), 2016 * Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015), 1967 * Curtis LeMay (1906–1990) 1964 *
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, 1942 *
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, 1942 *
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2nd Class, Gold and Silver Star

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Order of the Rising Sun
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(1927–2016), 2012 *
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Tsung-Dao Lee Tsung-Dao Lee (; born November 24, 1926) is a Chinese-American physicist, known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton stars ...
2007 * Charles LeGendre (1830–1899), 1874 * Wassily Leontief (1905-1999), 1985 * Lilia B. de Lima, 2006 * Predrag Filipov, 2019 * William Flynn Martin, 2018 * William R. Merz, 2021 *
Connie Morella Constance Morella (; née Albanese; born February 12, 1931) is an American politician and diplomat. She represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2003. She served as Permanent Representative from the U.S. to the Organ ...
(1931–), 2016 * Riccardo Muti, 2016 * Thottuvelil Krishna Pillai Ayappan Nair 2015 *
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 ...
(1876–1928), 1928 * George R. Packard 2007 * Jerzy Pomianowski * Randles, Sir John Scurrah (1875–1945) * Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao, 2015 * Rein Raud, 2011 * Governor J. Peter Ricketts, 2022 *
Johannis de Rijke Johannis de Rijke (December 5, 1842 – January 20, 1913) was a Dutch civil engineer and a foreign advisor to the Japanese government in Meiji period Japan. Early life De Rijke was born in Colijnsplaat on the island Noord-Beveland. Rijsbergen, ...
(1842–1913) * Wilbur L. Ross (1937–), 2015 *
Vsevolod Rudnev Vsevolod Fyodorovich Rudnev (russian: Все́волод Фёдорович Ру́днев; 31 August 1855 – 20 July 1913) was a career naval officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, noted for his heroic role in the Battle of Chemulpo Bay during th ...
(1855–1913), 1907 * Shyam Saran, 2019 * Jacob Schiff (1847–1920), 1907 * William Francis Sempill (1893–1965) * N. K. Singh (2016) * Jouko Skinnari, 2011 *
E. Sreedharan Elattuvalapil Sreedharan (born 12 June 1930) is an Indian engineer and politician from the Indian state of Kerala. He is credited with changing the face of public transport in India with his leadership in building the Konkan Railway and the De ...
(1932–), 2013 *
Wendell M. Stanley Wendell Meredith Stanley (16 August 1904 – 15 June 1971) was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Biography Stanley was born in Ridgeville, Indiana, and earned a BSc in Chemistry at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. He ...
(1904–1971), 1966 * Michael Ira Sovern 2003 * Sayidiman Suryohadiprojo (1927–2021), 2012 *
Washington SyCip Washington Z. SyCip, PLH BOLk RNO1kl (; 30 June 1921 – 7 October 2017) was a Chinese-Filipino- American accountant. He was the founder of the accounting firm EY SGV & Company and the Asian Institute of Management. Early life and educat ...
, 2017 * Henry W. Taft (1859–1945), 1929Honor awarded 1929
"Japanese Emperor Honors H.W. Taft; Consul-General Gives Insignia for Fostering International Friendship. Diploma Also Presented; Brother of Chief Justice Receives Order of Rising Sun at Exercises Here,"
''New York Times,'' 28 June 1929.
* Frederick Charles Tudor Tudor (1863–1946) * Charles Vaughan-Lee (1867–1928) * John Waldron (1909–1975) 1971 * Bryon Wilfert (1952–), 2011 * Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker (1941–), 2009 * Richard J. Wood, 2010 * Kenkichi Yabashi (1869–1927), 1927 *
Philip Yeo Noel Philip Yeo Liat Kok ( Chinese: 杨烈国; born 1946), DUNU (First Class), is the Chairman oEconomic Development Innovations SingaporeAdvanced MedTech HoldingsanAccuron Technologies From April 2007 to March 2018, Yeo was Chairman of Standar ...
(1946–), 2007 * Yusron Ihza Mahendra (1958–), 2022 * Jonathan M. Dorfan (1947–), 2017 * Abdul Gafoor Mahmud(1934-), 2017


3rd Class, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon

* Craig Agena (1960–), 2014 *
John F. Aiso John Fujio Aiso ( ja, 相磯 藤雄, December 14, 1909 – December 29, 1987) was an American nisei military leader, lawyer and judge. Aiso was the Director and head instructor of the Military Intelligence Service Language School, and the highes ...
(1909–1987), 1985 * Giorgio Amitrano (1957–), 2020 (ceremony held in 2022) * James E. Auer, 2009 * William Hansel Barrow (1936–2020), 2005 *
William Sturgis Bigelow William Sturgis Bigelow (1850–1926) was a prominent American collector of Japanese art. The art collection trips he funded in the 1880s helped to form the standards by which Japanese art and culture were appreciated in the West. In 1909, Bigelo ...
(1850–1926), 1909 *
Edmund Blunden Edmund Charles Blunden (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974) was an English poet, author, and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was a ...
(1896–1974), 1963 *
Ivan Bondarenko Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ...
, 2012 *
Richard Bowring Richard John Bowring (born 6 February 1947) is an English academic serving as Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Fellow of Downing College. In 2013, Bowring was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun 3rd Clas ...
(1947–), 2013 *
Ben Nighthorse Campbell Ben Nighthorse Campbell (born April 13, 1933) is an American Cheyenne politician who represented Colorado's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993, and as a United States Senator from Colorado ...
(1933–), 2011 *
Kent E. Calder Kent E. Calder (born April 18, 1948) is the Interim Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAISHe serves as the Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, and is also the Edwin O. Reischauer P ...
, 2014 * Ion Caramitru, 2017 *
Kirsti Koch Christensen Kirsti Koch Christensen (born December 1, 1940) is a Norwegian linguist that served as chancellor of the University of Bergen from 1999 to 2005. Kirsti Koch Christensen was born in Oslo. She received a master's degree in general linguistics fr ...
, 2006 * Albert Diamond Cohen, 2011 * Jennifer Corbett, 2014 * Edwin Cranston, 2009 * Rust Macpherson Deming, 2013 * Steven DeMoss, 2022 * Rudy Demotte, 2016 * Michael Donnelly, 2014 * Ronald P. Dore * Todd A. Dozier, 2021 *
Peter Drysdale Peter David Drysdale (born 24 October 1938, in Grafton, New South Wales) is an Australian economist and writer. He is Emeritus Professor of Economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Austra ...
, 2001 *
Clint Eastwood Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the Western TV series '' Rawhide'', he rose to international fame with his role as the " Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's "'' Do ...
, 2009 *
Gustave Eiffel Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (born Bonickhausen dit Eiffel; ; ; 15 December 1832 – 27 December 1923) was a French civil engineer. A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway ...
(1832–1923) * Stanisław Filipek, 2006 * Jack Fujimoto, 2011 *
Robert Garfias Robert Garfias (b. 1932 in San Francisco) is an American ethnomusicologist and musicologist. He is a professor of Anthropology and a member of The Social Dynamics and Complexity Group at the University of California, Irvine as well as a professo ...
, 2005 * Carol Gluck, 2006 * William Elliot Griffis (1843–1928), 1926Honor awarded in 1926
Adam Mathew web.
* Mahdi Elmandjra, 1986 * Moto Hagio, 2022 * Percival Hall-Thompson (1874–1950) * Jochem P. Hanse, 2007 * Helen Hardacre, 2018 *
James Curtis Hepburn James Curtis Hepburn (; March 13, 1815 – September 21, 1911) was an American physician, translator, educator, and lay Christian missionary. He is known for the Hepburn romanization system for transliteration of the Japanese language into th ...
(1815–1911) * Judit Hidasi, 2005 *
Yanosuke Hirai was a Japanese civil engineer and corporate executive in the electric power industry. He developed electric power generation in the Tohoku region during the Shōwa era with unusual foresight and a deep sense of responsibility. 25 years after ...
(1902–1986), 1972 *
Irene Hirano Irene Hirano Inouye (''née'' Yasutake; October 7, 1948 – April 7, 2020) was the founding President of the U.S.-Japan Council, a position she held ever since she helped create the organization in 2009 until her death. Hirano Inouye focused on ...
(1948–2020), 2020 *
John Charles Hoad Major General Sir John Charles Hoad (25 January 1856 – 6 October 1911) was an Australian military leader, best known as the Australian Army's second Chief of the General Staff.Warren Perry'Hoad, Sir John Charles (1856–1911)' Australian Dict ...
(1856–1911), 1906 * Susumu Honjo, 2003 *
Jiro Horikoshi was the chief engineer of many Japanese fighter designs of World War II, including the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter. Early life Jiro Horikoshi was born near the city of Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, in 1903. Horikoshi graduated from the new ...
(1903–1982), 1973 *
Bill Hosokawa William Kunpei Hosokawa (January 30, 1915 – November 9, 2007) was an American writer and journalist. Of Japanese descent, while interned at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, he was the editor of the internment camp's newspaper, ''The ...
(1915–2007), 1987 * John Howes, (1924–2017), 2003 * Robert Huey, 2019 * Romuald Huszcza, 2012 * José Luis Ceacero Inguanzo, 1886 * Keiichi Ishizaka (1945–2016), 2015 *
Muhammad Nurul Islam Muhammad Nurul Islam (born ) is a Bangladeshi diplomat from Chittagong. He currently serves as the Honorary Consul-General of Japan in Chittagong, Bangladesh. He is one of the Consuls-General among 102 foreign representatives in Bangladesh, and ...
(1943–), 2012 *
Jean-François Jarrige Jean-François Jarrige (5 August 1940, Lourdes – 18 November 2014, Paris) was a French archaeologist specializing in South Asian archaeology and Sindhology. He held a doctorate from the University of Paris in oriental archaeology. He carried ...
(1940–2014) *
Kanō Jigorō was a Japanese educator, athlete, and the founder of Judo. Along with Ju-Jutsu, Judo was one of the first Japanese martial arts to gain widespread international recognition, and the first to become an official Olympic sport. Pedagogical in ...
(1860–1938) * Otto Hermann Kahn (1867–1934) * Kusuma Karunaratne (1940–) * Stephen Ira Katz, 2012 * Dr. Nghiem Vu Khai, 2014 *
Harue Kitamura Harue Kitamura ( 11 July 1928 – 13 March 2022) was a Japanese politician, lawyer, and feminist. She is the first woman to be elected mayor of a Japanese city, serving three terms as the mayor of Ashiya, Hyogo. Early life Kitamura was born ...
, 2004 * Larry Kominz, 2022 * George Koshi c. 1960 * George Trumbull Ladd (1842–1921) * Miles Wedderburn Lampson (1880–1964) * Kuo-Hsiung Lee, 2011 * Yves Leterme, 2016 * Carlos Rubio López de la Llave, 2014 *
Norman Macrae Norman Alastair Duncan Macrae (1923 – 11 June 2010) was a British economist, journalist and author, considered by some to have been one of the world's best forecasters when it came to economics and society. Career Macrae joined ''The Economist ...
(1923–2010), 1988 * Paul Magnette, 2016 * William P. Malm, 2020 * Mike Masaoka, 1968 * Matthew H. Molloy, 2013 *
Kyuzo Mifune has been categorized as one of the greatest exponents of the art of judo after the founder, Kanō Jigorō. He is considered by many to be the greatest judo technician ever, after Kanō. Early life Mifune was born on April 21, 1883, in Kuji Cit ...
(1883–1965), 1964 *
John Milne John Milne (30 December 1850 – 31 July 1913) was a British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph. Biography Milne was born in Liverpool, England, the only child of John Milne of Milnrow, and at first raised i ...
(1850–1913) * Earl Miner (1926–2004) * Edwin McClellan (1925–2009), 1998 * Seang Nam, 2020 * Edward Gage Nelson, 2008 * Ian Nish, 1991 *
Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi (née Setsuko Matsunaga; October 17, 1921 – November 18, 2012) was a pioneering community activist and researcher in the area of American race relations as well as professor of sociology at the City University of New Yo ...
, 2009 * Jeanette Takamura, 2009 * Dr. Susumu Nisizaki, 2018 * Jerzy Nowacki, 2008 * John O'Conor, 2011 * Peter O'Malley, 2015 * Dennis M. Ogawa, 2016 * Taiichi Ohno, 1982 *
Janusz Onyszkiewicz Janusz Adam Onyszkiewicz (, born 18 December 1937) is a Polish mathematician, alpinist, politicianEuropa Publications, "The International Who's Who 2004", Routledge, 2003pg. 1258/ref> and was a vice-president of the European Parliament's Foreign ...
, 2019 *
Piotr Paleczny Piotr Paleczny (born 10 May 1946 in Rybnik, Poland) is a Polish classical pianist, winner of the 3rd prize of the VIII International Chopin Piano Competition in 1970. In 1990 he served on the jury of the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Pi ...
, 2019 * T.J. Pempel, 2022 * Susan Pharr, 2008 * Umberto Pineschi, 2009 * Lee Poh Ping, 2010 * John Powles, 2008 * Pyle, Kenneth B. 1999 * John Mark Ramseyer, 2018 *
Sadia Rashid Sadia Rashid (born 1946) is a Pakistani educationist who is the current president of Hamdard Pakistan, chancellor of the Hamdard University and president of the Pakistan-Japan Cultural Association (PJCA). Early life She was born in 1946 in Sitar ...
, 2019 * Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, 2019 * Jacob Raz, 2006 * Rustum Roy, 2002 * David Rowe-Beddoe, 2008 * David Russell, 2010 *
Raaj Kumar Sah Raaj may refer to: * Romit Raj, an Indian actor * '' Raaj the Showman'', a 2009 Kannada film * ''Raaj'' (film), a 2011 Telugu film See also * Raj (disambiguation) * Raaz (disambiguation) {{disambig ...
, 2017 * Emiko "Emily" Sano, 2008 * Wolfgang Sauerwein (1952–), 2020 * Isaac Shapiro (1931–), 2006 * David Bowman Schneder, 1936 * Edward Seidensticker, 1975 * Go Seigen aka Wu Qing Yuan (1914–2014), 1987 * John Stich, 2021 * William Forbes-Sempill * Shinichi Suzuki (1898–1998), c. 1970 * George Tanabe, Jr., 2013 *
Ichimatsu Tanaka was a Japanese academic, art historian, curator, editor, and sometime public servant who specialized in the history of Japanese art. Early life and education Tanaka was born in Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture. He attended and ...
(1895–1983), 1967 * Tadao Tannaka (1908–1986), 1980 * Patrick Lennox Tierney, 2007 * Royall Tyler, 2008 * István Ujszászy (1894–1948), 1942 * Joseph K.H. Uy, 1991 * T. Wayland Vaughan (1870–1952), 1940 *
Rudi Vervoort Rudi Vervoort (born 20 November 1958) is a Brussels politician. He is the mayor of Evere since 1998 and member of the Brussels Parliament. He became the Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region on 7 May 2013 and is responsible for Local A ...
, 2016 *
Andrzej Wajda Andrzej Witold Wajda (; 6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016) was a Polish film and theatre director. Recipient of an Honorary Oscar, the Palme d'Or, as well as Honorary Golden Lion and Honorary Golden Bear Awards, he was a prominent member of the ...
, 1995 * Paul Watanabe, 2017 * Willy Vande Walle, 2006 * Sam Walsh, 2021 * R.J. Zwi Werblowsky, 2009 * Charles Wolf, Jr, 2007 * Lydia Yu-Jose, 2012 *
Jan van Zanen Jan Hendrikus Cornelis van Zanen (born 4 September 1961) is a Dutch politician who has served as Mayor of The Hague since 1 July 2020. A member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), he previously served as Mayor of Utrecht (201 ...
, 2016


4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette

* Hank Aaron (1934–2021), 2016 * Ferran Adrià (1952–), 2015 * Toshiko Akiyoshi (1929–), 2004 * Syed Feroz Alam Shah, 2020 *
Boris Akunin Boris Akunin (russian: Борис Акунин) is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili (russian: Григорий Шалвович Чхартишвили, Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili; ka, გრიგორი ჩხარტიშვ ...
(1956–), 2009 * Arvydas Ališauskas, 2012 *
Shusaku Arakawa was a Japanese conceptual artist and architect. He had a personal and artistic partnership with the writer and artist Madeline Gins that spanned more than four decades in which they collaborated on a diverse range of visual mediums, including: ...
(1936–2010), 2010 * Martha Argerich (1941–), 2005 * Charles Aznavour (1924–2018), 2018 * Kazuhiko Bandoh, 2014 * Andrej Bekeš, 2008 * Ilana Singer Blaine (b. 1961), 2021 *
Henry Pike Bowie Henry Pike Bowie (1848 – December 21, 1920) was an American lawyer, artist, author, Japanologist, and diplomat.Starr, Kevin. (2003) ''Embattled Dreams,'' pp. 38-39./ref> Biography In the late 1880s, Bowie commissioned Makoto Hagiwara, the manag ...
(1848–1920), 1909 * James R. Brandon, 1994 *
William Penn Brooks William Penn Brooks (November 19, 1851 – March 8, 1938) was an American agricultural scientist, who worked as a foreign advisor in Meiji period Japan during the colonization project for Hokkaidō. He was the eighth president of the Massachus ...
, 1888 * Bobby Charlton, 2012 * Tim Clark (historian of Japanese art), 2020 * Willard G. Clark (1930–2015), 1991 * David Cope, 2012 * Charles B. Doleac, Esq., 2011 * Bogna Barbara Dziechciaruk-Maj, 2009 * William Elliot Griffis (1843–1928), 1907 * Kenji Ekuan (1925–2015), 2000 * Atsuko Toko Fish 2018 * Fujiko Fujio A (1934–), 2008 * Glen Gondo, 2013 * Ted Goossen, 2018 * Mohammad Hatta (1902–1980), 1943 * (1933–), 2011 *
Steven Heine Steven Heine (born 1950), is a scholar in the field of Zen Buddhist history and thought, particularly the life and teachings of Zen Master Dōgen (1200–1253). He has also taught and published extensively on Japanese religion and society in wo ...
(1950–), 2007 * Asao Hirano (1926–2019), 2001 * Terumasa Hino (1942–), 2019 * Michael Arnold Hodgkin, 2019 * William Imbrie (1845–1928), 1909 * Iskandar Jalil, 2015 * Randall Sidney Jones, 2015 * Rena Kanokogi (1935-2009), 2008 * Gō Katō (1938–2018), 2008 * Kihachirō Kawamoto (1925–2010), 1995 * George Kerr (1937–), 2010 *
Keisuke Kinoshita was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Ronald Berganbr>"A satirical eye on Japan: Keisuke Kinoshita" ''The Guardian'', 5 January 1999. While lesser-known internationally than contemporaries such as Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi an ...
(1912–1998), 1984 *
Sachi Koto Sachi Koto born in Atlanta, Georgia, is a third-generation Japanese American. She was a news anchor on ''CNN News'' for 16 years, until leaving In 2005, to run her own communications company, Sachi Koto Communications, LLC. Koto worked at various ...
(1951– ), 2021 * Włodzimierz Kwieciński (1955–), 2012 * Tommy Lasorda (1927–2021), 2008 * Liao I-chiu (1936–), 2014 * Charles Von Loewenfeldt, 1987 * Alfred Majewicz, 2002 *
Leiji Matsumoto is a Japanese mangaka, creator of several anime and manga series. His wife Miyako Maki is also a manga artist. Early life Matsumoto was the middle child of a family of seven brothers, and, in his early childhood, Matsumoto was given a 3 ...
, 2010 * Hazel McCallion, 2014 *
Rokusaburo Michiba is a Japanese cuisine chef most notable as the first Japanese Iron Chef on the television series ''Iron Chef''. He was on the show from its inception in 1993 until his retirement on his 65th birthday, January 3, 1996. After his retirement as an ...
, 2007 * Frank A. Miller, 1929 * Shiro Floyd Mori, 2012 * Raymond Moriyama (1928–), 2003 * Kent Nagano, 2008 * Masaya Nakamura (1925–2017), 2007 *
Olivia Newton-John Dame Olivia Newton-John (26 September 1948 – 8 August 2022) was a British-Australian singer, actress and activist. She was a four-time Grammy Awards, Grammy Award winner whose music career included 15 top-ten singles, including 5 number-one s ...
(1948–2022), 2021 *
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 ...
(1876–1928), 1915 * Krystyna Okazaki, 2007 * David Ono, 2022 *
Ivica Osim Ivan Osim (6 May 1941 – 1 May 2022), best known as Ivica Osim, was a Bosnian professional footballer and football manager. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Bosnian football managers of all time and as one of the most influential foo ...
, 2016 * Daniel Ost, 2015 * Kenneth Oye, 2018 * Edwina Palmer, 2018 * Takao Saito, 2010 * Frederik L. Schodt, 2009Anime News Network

"Frederik L. Schodt Wins The Order of the Rising Sun Award,"
29 April 2009.
* David Bowman Schneder, 1917 *
Peter Schreier Peter Schreier (29 July 1935 – 25 December 2019) was a German tenor in opera, concert and lied, and a conductor. He was regarded as one of the leading lyric tenors of the 20th century. Schreier was a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor conducte ...
, 2019 *
Dr. Manmohan Singh Manmohan Singh (; born 26 September 1932) is an Indian politician, economist and statesman who served as the 13th prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He is also the third longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indir ...
, 2007 *
George Shima George Shima (1864 – March 27, 1926) was a Japanese American businessman in California who became the first Japanese American millionaire. At one point, he produced about 85% of the state's potato crop, which earned him the nickname "The Potato K ...
(1864–1926) * Tatsuzo Shimaoka (1919–2007), 1999 *
Setsuko Shinoda is a Japanese writer of genre fiction. She has won the ''Shōsetsu Subaru'' Literary Prize for Newcomers, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, the Naoki Prize, the Shibata Renzaburo Prize, a MEXT Award, and the Chuo Koron Literary Prize. Several of her ...
(1955–), 2020 * Joseph Bower Siddall (1840–1904), 1909 * Dragan Stojković (1965–), 2015 *
Sukarno Sukarno). (; born Koesno Sosrodihardjo, ; 6 June 1901 – 21 June 1970) was an Indonesian statesman, orator, revolutionary, and nationalist who was the first president of Indonesia, serving from 1945 to 1967. Sukarno was the leader of ...
(1901–1970), 1943 * Koichi Sugiyama (1931–2021), 2018 *
Hiroshi Tachi is a Japanese actor and singer. His ancestors were samurai of the Owari Domain and the family of the former samurai. He graduated from Chiba Institute of Technology. He was a leader of a rock 'n' roll group ''Cools'' but he left the group soo ...
(1950–), 2020 * George Takei (1937–), 2004 * Kip Tokuda (1946–2013), 2012 * Masanobu Tsuji (1902–1961), 1942 *
George Tsutakawa George Tsutakawa (February 22, 1910 – December 18, 1997) was an American painter and sculptor best known for his avant-garde bronze fountain designs. Born in Seattle, Washington, he was raised in both the United States and Japan. He atten ...
(1910–1997), 1981 * Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969), 1964 * Raymond S. Uno, 2014 * H. Paul Varley (1931–2015), 1966 * The Ventures, 2010 * Sadao Watanabe (1933–), 2005 * Tetsuya Watari (1941–2020), 2013 *
William Scott Wilson William Scott Wilson (born 1944, Nashville, Tennessee) is known for translating several works of Japanese literature, mostly those relating to the martial tradition of that country. Wilson has brought historical Chinese and Japanese thought, p ...
(1944–), 2015 *
Teruaki Yamagishi Teruaki Yamagishi (born December 4, 1934) is a Japanese management consultant who works in Manaus, Brazil. He is the CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or j ...
(1934–), 2008 * Ian Michael Scher, 2021


5th Class, Gold and Silver Rays

* Takami Hibiya (1909-1993) 1981 * Shyamala Ganesh, 2021 *
Miyazaki Atsuo Miyazaki may refer to: People * Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese animator * Hidetaka Miyazaki, video game director * Gorō Miyazaki, Japanese film director and landscaper, and son of Hayao Miyazaki. * For others, see Miyazaki (surname) Places * Miyazaki ...
(1947–), 2021 * Dick Beyer (1930–2019), 2017 * Vytautas Dumčius, 2016 * Douglas Erber, 2021 * Dr. Rupert Faulkner (Victoria & Albert Museum), 2020 * George Geddie (1869–1961), 1907 * Toshihiro Hamano, 2017 *
Frances Hashimoto Frances Kazuko Hashimoto (August 26, 1943 – November 4, 2012) was a Japanese-American businesswoman and community activist. Hashimoto was a key figure and proponent of Los Angeles' Little Tokyo neighborhood. The head of Mikawaya since 1970, Has ...
(1943–2012), 2012 *
Jan Kowalewski Lt. Col. Jan Kowalewski (23 October 1892 – 31 October 1965) was a Polish cryptologist, intelligence officer, engineer, journalist, military commander, and creator and first head of the Polish Cipher Bureau. He recruited a large staff of crypt ...
(1892–1965), 1923 * Kira Liscutín Córdova de Abreu (?–), 2021 * Glenn Masuo Masunaga (1925–2019), 1999 *
Lori Matsukawa Lori Matsukawa (born 1956) is an American television news journalist who spent thirty-six years as evening news anchor at KING 5, the NBC affiliate in Seattle, Washington. She has won two Emmys and numerous honors from regional and national org ...
(1956– ), 2022 * Soleiman Mehdizadeh (1955– ), 2012 * Kenzo Mori (1914–2007), 2007 * Shōshin Nagamine (1907–1997), 1982 * Roy Masahiro Nagata, 2005 * Shūgorō Nakazato (1920–2016), 2007 * Kiyoshi Nishiyama (1893–1983), 1977 * Steere Noda, 1968 * Jun Noguchi, 2011 *
Hironori Ōtsuka was a Japanese master of karate who created the Wadō-ryū style of karate. He was the first Grand Master of Wadō-ryū karate, and received high awards within Japan for his contributions to karate. Early life Ōtsuka was born on June 1, 1892, ...
(1892–1982), 1966 * Sumitra Peries (1934–), 2021 * Vincenzo Ragusa (1841–1927), 1884 * Major Douglas Estment Randall, MC (1891–1926), 1925 * Antone Rosa (1855–1898), 1884 * Inés Sánchez (1931– ), 2012 * Buster Sefor (1941–), 2011* Low Thian Seng, 2015 * Garrett Serikawa (1932–2019), 2016 * Doreen Simmons (1932–2018), 2017 * Yosihiko H. Sinoto (1924–2017), 1995 * Alfred Russell Stone (1902–1954), 1954 * James Takemori (1926–2015), 2004 *
Seiichi Tanaka is the first Japan-trained teacher of kumidaiko, or taiko, in the United States and is largely regarded as the father of the art form in North America. Early life Tanaka was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1943 and immigrated to the United States in 19 ...
(1968– ), 2013 * Alicia Terada, 2017 *
Rudolf Teusler Rudolf Bolling Teusler M.D. (1876 - 1934) was a medical physician and lay missionary to Japan who worked under the auspices of the Foreign and Domestic Missionary Society of the American Episcopal Church. Teusler is remembered in Japan as the fo ...
(1876–1934) * Ted Tsukiyama (1920–2019), 2001 * Ronald Stewart Watt (1947– ), 2010
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan) The is an executive department of the Government of Japan, and is responsible for the country's foreign policy and international relations. The ministry was established by the second term of the third article of the National Government Org ...

''2010 Spring Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals,'' p. 8.
/ref> *Shuji Yagi (Shuho Bon Yagi), 2019 * Akira Yoshizawa (1911–2005), 1983 * Br. Jude McKenna OFM Cap (1935– ), 2019. * Abdullah Ibrahim (1934– ), 2020. * William Wheeler (1851–1932), 1924


6th Class, Silver Rays

* Henry Hajimu Fujii (1886–1976), 1971 *
Bolesław Orliński Bolesław Orliński (13 April 1899 – 28 February 1992) was a Polish aviator, military, sports and test pilot. He was born on the family estate in Niwerka, Podolia (now Niverka, Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine). During ...
(1899–1992), 1926 * Fudeko Reekie, 2013 * John Wilson (Captain) (1851–1899), 1895 * Kuniichi Iwata (Specialist) (1919–2014), 1995 * Yun Chi-sung (1875–1936), 1905 * Fadi Aoun / Lebanon (2022)


7th Class, Green Paulownia Leaves Medal

In 2003, the 7th and 8th levels – named for leaves of the Paulownia tree, long used as a
mon Mon, MON or Mon. may refer to: Places * Mon State, a subdivision of Myanmar * Mon, India, a town in Nagaland * Mon district, Nagaland * Mon, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India * Mon, Switzerland, a village in the Canton of Grisons * A ...
(emblem) for the highest levels of Japanese society – were moved to a new and distinct order, the single-class '' Order of the Paulownia Flowers''. * Tetsuzō Iwamoto (1916–1955), 1942 * Leonard Kubiak (1899–1939), 1926 * Shōjiro Kuwazoe (1876-1953)https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/LYXL-XXQ(Mormon)


8th Class, white Paulownia Leaves Medal

In 2003, the 7th and 8th levels – named for leaves of the Paulownia tree, long used as a
mon Mon, MON or Mon. may refer to: Places * Mon State, a subdivision of Myanmar * Mon, India, a town in Nagaland * Mon district, Nagaland * Mon, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India * Mon, Switzerland, a village in the Canton of Grisons * A ...
(emblem) for the highest levels of Japanese society – were moved to a new and distinct order, the single-class '' Order of the Paulownia Flowers''.


Class unknown

* Aung San (1915–1947) * Beneš, Edvard (1884–1948), 1928 * Ralph T. Browning (1941–2018) * Burzagli, Ernesto (1873–1944), 1906 *
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(Awarded 1908) * Craig, Albert M. (1988) * de Bary, William Theodore (1993) * Eichelberger, Robert Lawrence (1886–1961) * Ellis, Alfred John (1915–2020), 1989 * Fortescue, Granville Roland (1875–1952) * Gibney, Frank B. (1924–2006), 1976 * Józef Gieysztor * Grondijs, Louis (1878–1961) * Hosoya, Judayu (1840–1907) * Ibrahim, Sultan of Johor (1873–1959) * Knott, Cargill G. (1856–1922), 1891 *
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See also

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: A list of orders by various states * Systems of other states: **
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and Order of the White Elephant (Thailand) **
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(UK) **
Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleo ...
(France) **
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...
(Grand Merit Cross, Merit Cross and Merit Medal equivalents) ** Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (Russia) **
Order of Isabella the Catholic The Order of Isabella the Catholic ( es, Orden de Isabel la Católica) is a Spanish civil order and honor granted to persons and institutions in recognition of extraordinary services to the homeland or the promotion of international relations a ...
(Spain) **
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ( it, Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana) is the senior Italian order of merit. It was established in 1951 by the second President of the Italian Republic, Luigi Einaudi. The highest-rankin ...
** Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (Grand Decoration in Gold with Sash, in Gold with Star, in Gold, Grand Decoration of Honour, Decoration of Honour in Gold, Decoration of Merit in Gold) ** Order of Prince Henry (Portugal)


References


Further reading

* Peterson, James W., Barry C. Weaver and Michael A. Quigley (2001). ''Orders and Medals of Japan and Associated States''. San Ramon, California: Orders and Medals Society of America. .


External links

* Japan, Cabinet Office
Decorations and Medals
** Decoration Bureau

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