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presented by the

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ese government. Established in 1888 during the

Meiji Restoration The , referred to at the time as the , and also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Regeneration, Reform, or Renewal, was a political event that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji. Although there were ...

as the highest award in the

Order of the Rising Sun The is a Japanese order, established in 1875 by Emperor Meiji. The Order was the first national decoration awarded by the Japanese government, created on 10 April 1875 by decree of the Council of State. The badge features rays of sunlight f ...

; however, since 2003 it has been an Order in its own right. The only grade of the order is , which ranks higher than the

, the

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, the Order of the Precious Crown, and the Order of Culture and lower than the Order of the Chrysanthemum. Traditionally, the order has been conferred upon eminent statesmen, former prime ministers and senior cabinet ministers, diplomats and judges. It may be conferred posthumously, and is the highest regularly conferred honor in the Japanese honours system. Awards are not made annually; only 24 individuals have been decorated with the order since 2003: 18 Japanese (three posthumously), three Americans (one of Japanese descent, United States Senator Daniel Inouye), one Indian (former

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), one Singaporean (the first Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew, awarded posthumously) and one Malaysian (the fourth and seventh

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Insignia

The ''badge'' for the Order is a gilt cross with white enameled rays, bearing a central emblem of a red enameled sun disc surrounded by red rays, and with three paulownia blossoms between each arm of the cross. It is suspended from three enameled paulownia leaves on a sash in red with white border stripes, and is worn on the right shoulder. The ''star'' for the Order is the same as the badge, but without the paulownia leaves suspension. It is worn on the left chest.

Complete listing of ordinary (non-royal) recipients of the Order

Ordinary recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers (1888–2003)

''Information from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia''

Awards to living recipients

Itō Hirobumi was a Japanese politician and statesman who served as the first Prime Minister of Japan. He was also a leading member of the '' genrō'', a group of senior statesmen that dictated Japanese policy during the Meiji era. A London-educated sa ...

(11 February 1889) * Ōyama Iwao (5 August 1895) * Saigō Tsugumichi (5 August 1895) * Yamagata Aritomo (5 August 1895) *

Kuroda Kiyotaka Count , also known as , was a Japanese politician of the Meiji era. He was Prime Minister of Japan from 1888 to 1889. He was also vice chairman of the Hokkaido Development Commission ( Kaitaku-shi). Biography As a Satsuma ''samurai'' K ...

(20 August 1895) * Konoe Tadahiro (26 September 1895) * Inoue Kaoru (7 October 1895) *

Tokudaiji Sanetsune ''With information translated from the Japanese Wikipedia article'' Duke was a Japanese statesman and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan in the Meiji era. Life Tokydaiji Sanetsune was born to a branch of the Fujiwara court nobility in K ...

(7 October 1895) * Matsukata Masayoshi (31 October 1899) *

Hijikata Hisamoto Count was a Japanese politician and cabinet minister of the Meiji period. Biography Hijikata was a samurai in Tosa Domain (modern-day Kōchi Prefecture). He was sent by the domain to Edo for studies, where he became involved in the ''sonn� ...

(16 July 1903) * Kawamura Sumiyoshi (26 December 1903) * Itō Sukeyuki (1 April 1906) * Oku Yasukata (1 April 1906) * Kawamura Kageaki (1 April 1906) *

Kuroki Tamemoto Count was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He was the head of the Japanese First Army during the Russo-Japanese War; and his forces enjoyed a series of successes during the Manchurian fighting at the Battle of Yalu River, the ...

(1 April 1906) * Kodama Gentarō (1 April 1906) * Komura Jutarō (1 April 1906) *

Sakuma Samata General Count was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, and 5th Governor-General of Taiwan from 11 April 1906 to May 1915. Biography Sakuma was born in Abu District, Nagato Province (present day Hagi, Yamaguchi), as the younger son of Ok ...

(1 April 1906) * Sasaki Takayuki (1 April 1906) * Tanaka Fujimaro (1 April 1906) * Tanaka Mitsuaki (1 April 1906) * Terauchi Masatake (1 April 1906) * Nogi Maresuke (1 April 1906) * Nozu Michitsura (1 April 1906) * Hasegawa Yoshimichi (1 April 1906) * Hayashi Tadasu (1 April 1906) * Higashikuze Michiyoshi (1 April 1906) * Fukuoka Takachika (1 April 1906) *

Saionji Kinmochi Prince was a Japanese politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1906 to 1908 and from 1911 to 1912. He was elevated from marquis to prince in 1920. As the last surviving member of Japan's '' genrō,'' he was the most ...

(14 September 1907) * Hayashi Tomoyuki (5 November 1907) *

Teruhisa Komatsu Marquis was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II. Born as HIH Kitashirakawa-no-miya Teruhisa, as the younger son of HIH Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa, his title was devolved from royal status that that of the ''kazoku'' p ...

(3 November 1908) * Oogimachisanjō Michika (4 January 1909) *

Matsudaira Norikata Count was the 8th and final ''daimyō'' of Okutono in Mikawa Province, and 1st (and final) ''daimyō'' of Tanoguchi Domain in Shinano Province. He served in the Tokugawa shogunate in the positions of ''Rōjū'' and ''Wakadoshiyori'', and became ...

(6 January 1910) *

Ōkuma Shigenobu Marquess was a Japanese statesman and a prominent member of the Meiji oligarchy. He served as Prime Minister of the Empire of Japan in 1898 and from 1914 to 1916. Ōkuma was also an early advocate of Western science and culture in Japan, ...

(29 April 1910) * Sone Arasuke (29 August 1910) * Tani Tateki (9 February 1911) *

Ōshima Yoshimasa Viscount was a general in the early Imperial Japanese Army during the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. His great-great-grandson, Shinzō Abe was Prime Minister of Japan. Biography Ōshima was born as the eldest son to a samur ...

(17 June 1912) * Kagawa Keizō (5 August 1914) * Matsuoka Yasutake (10 November 1915) *

Katō Takaaki Count was a Japanese politician, diplomat, and Prime Minister of Japan from 1924 until his death on 28 January 1926, during the period which historians have called " Taishō Democracy". He was also known as Katō Kōmei. Early life Katō ...

(14 July 1916) * Yoshikawa Akimasa (20 March 1917) * Kabayama Sukenori (12 May 1917) *

Yamao Yōzō Viscount was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who became an influential member of the Meiji era government of Japan. Early life Yamao was born in Aio-Futajima, a village in Chōshū domain (present day Yamaguchi prefecture), and re ...

(12 December 1917) * Motono Ichirō (16 September 1918) *

Hirata Tosuke Count was a Japanese statesman and the 7th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan, active in the Meiji and Taishō period Empire of Japan. Biography Hirata was born in the Yonezawa Domain, Dewa Province (currently Yamagata Prefecture) as ...

(24 May 1919) *

Kataoka Shichirō Baron was an early admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Biography Early career Born to a '' samurai'' family in the Satsuma domain (present day Kagoshima prefecture), Kataoka entered the 3rd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in ...

(7 January 1920) * Kiyoura Keigo (4 September 1920) *

Itō Miyoji Count was a statesman in Meiji period Japan. He was a protégé of the leading oligarch Itō Hirobumi .As cabinet secretary 1892-1898, he was a powerbroker between the oligarchy and the political powers in the Diet. He grew increasingly conser ...

(7 September 1920) * Uchida Kosai (7 September 1920) * Katō Tomosaburō (7 September 1920) *

Gotō Shinpei Count was a Medical Doctor with Doctor of Medicine, a Japanese politician and cabinet minister of the Taishō and early Shōwa period Empire of Japan. He served as the head of civilian affairs of Taiwan under Japanese rule, the first dire ...

(7 September 1920) * Chinda Sutemi (7 September 1920) * Hara Takashi (7 September 1920) *

Makino Nobuaki Count was a Japanese politician and imperial court official. As Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan, Makino served as Emperor Hirohito’s chief counselor on the monarch’s position in Japanese society and policymaking. In this capacity, he ...

(7 September 1920) * Inoue Yoshika (1 November 1920) * Uehara Yūsaku (1 November 1920) * Utsunomiya Tarō (1 November 1920) *

Ōshima Ken'ichi Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and Army Minister during World War I. His son, Hiroshi Ōshima was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army, and served as Japanese ambassador to Nazi Germany. Biography Ōshima ...

(1 November 1920) * Ōtani Kikuzō (1 November 1920) *

Shimamura Hayao Marshal-Admiral Baron was a Japanese admiral during the First Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars as well as one of the first prominent staff officers and naval strategists of the early Imperial Japanese Navy. Biography Born in Kōchi ci ...

(1 November 1920) * Nakamura Yūjirō (1 November 1920) * Toda Shidomo (1 October 1921) *

Hamao Arata Viscount was a Japanese politician and educator of the Meiji period, originally hailing from Toyooka, Hyōgo. He was active in the Monbu-shō (present Monka-shō) and as the president of institutions such as Tokyo Imperial University. Hamao w ...

(25 November 1921) * Soga Sukenori (28 December 1923) *

Okano Keijirō was a legal scholar, a politician and cabinet minister in the pre-war Empire of Japan. Okano was a native of Kōzuke Province (modern-day Gunma Prefecture). He graduated from the Kaisei Academy, followed by the Law School of Tokyo Imperial ...

(11 February 1924) *

Saitō Makoto Viscount was a Japanese naval officer and politician. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Saitō Makoto"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 809. Upon distinguishing himself during his command of two cruisers in the First Sino-Japanese War, Saitō ros ...

(11 February 1924) *

Tokugawa Iesato Prince was the first head of the Tokugawa clan after the overthrow of the Tokugawa bakufu, and a significant figure in Japanese politics and diplomacy during the Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japan. When Prince Tokugawa travelled ...

(11 February 1924) * Ijuin Hikoyoshi (26 April 1924) * Takahashi Korekiyo (3 June 1927) *

Hiranuma Kiichirō was a prominent right-wing Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan in 1939. He was convicted of war crimes committed during World War II and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Early life Hiranuma was born in what is now Tsuyama ...

(21 April 1928) * Yamashita Gentarō (10 May 1928) *

Asano Nagakoto Marquis was a ''daimyō'' of Hiroshima Domain for a short time after the Meiji Restoration. For the rest of the Meiji period, he was a politician and diplomat, and was one of the last surviving Japanese ''daimyō'' (Hayashi Tadataka and Wake ...

(10 November 1928) *

Kaneko Kentarō was a statesman, diplomat, and legal scholar in Meiji period Japan. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he drew on his connections in the American legal community over the course of his long career in Japanese government, particularly in his ro ...

(10 November 1928) *

Shibusawa Eiichi was a Japanese industrialist widely known today as the "father of Japanese capitalism". He spearheaded the introduction of Western capitalism to Japan after the Meiji Restoration. He introduced many economic reforms including use of double- ...

(10 November 1928) * Hayashi Gonsuke (10 November 1928) *

Wakatsuki Reijirō Baron was a Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan. Early life Wakatsuki Reijirō was born on 21 March 1866, in Matsue, Izumo Province (present day Shimane Prefecture), the second son of samurai foot soldier (''ashigaru'') Okumura S ...

(10 November 1928) * Ichiki Kitokuro (28 December 1928) * Kuratomi Yūzaburō (28 December 1928) * Suzuki Sōroku (16 June 1930) *

Takarabe Takeshi was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and served as Navy Minister in the 1920s. He was also the son-in-law of Yamamoto Gonnohyōe. Biography Takarabe was born in Miyakonojō city in Miyazaki Prefecture. He graduated at the top out of ...

(11 April 1931) * Hamaguchi Osachi (29 April 1931) * Kijuro Shidehara (12 December 1931) * Inukai Tsuyoshi (6 May 1932) * Okada Keisuke (21 January 1933) * Kantarō Suzuki (29 April 1934) * Nara Takeji (29 April 1934) *

Takashi Hishikari was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. Biography A native of Kagoshima, Hishikari graduated from the 5th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1894. During the First Sino-Japanese War, Hishikari was an officer in the IJA 3rd I ...

(23 December 1935) *

Ugaki Kazushige was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army and cabinet minister before World War II, the 5th principal of Takushoku University, and twice Governor-General of Korea. Nicknamed Ugaki Issei, he served as Foreign Minister of Japan in th ...

(5 August 1936) *

Yamamoto Tatsuo was a Japanese politician and Governor of the Bank of Japan from 1898 to 1903. He was also a member of the House of Peers and served as a cabinet minister in the pre-war government of the Empire of Japan. Early life Yamamoto was born in Us ...

(5 August 1936) * Ishiguro Tadanori (24 December 1936) * Mizuno Rentaro (17 April 1938) * Yuasa Kurahei (7 June 1940) * Sakatani Yoshio (28 April 1941) *

Kishi Nobusuke was a Japanese bureaucrat and politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1957 to 1960. Known for his exploitative rule of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in Northeast China in the 1930s, Kishi was nicknamed the "Monster of the Sh� ...

(29 April 1967) * Tanaka Kōtarō (29 April 1970) * Funada Naka (29 April 1973) * Shigemune Yūzō (29 April 1973) * Yokota Kisaburo (29 April 1977) * Kōno Kenzō (3 November 1977) * Yasui Ken (3 November 1981) * Nadao Hirokichi (3 November 1982) * Nakamura Umekichi (3 November 1983) * Fukuda Hajime (3 November 1984) * Fukunaga Kenji (29 April 1986) * Sakata Michita (3 November 1986) * Toshiwo Doko (3 November 1986) *

Matsushita Konosuke Matsushita (written: lit. "below the pine tree") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Daisuke Matsushita (born 1981), a former Japanese football player *Hiro Matsushita (born 1961), former Japanese Champ Car racing dri ...

(29 April 1987) * Tokunaga Masatoshi (3 November 1989) * Sakarauchi Yoshio (3 November 1993) * Yaguchi Koichi (3 November 1993) *

Uno Sōsuke Uno or UNO may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Television * "Uno" (''Better Call Saul''), premiere episode of the American TV series ''Better Call Saul'' * ''Uno'' (film), a 2004 Norwegian drama film *Rai Uno, an Italian TV channel **'' ...

(29 April 1994) * Tamura Hajime (3 November 1994) * Kenzaburo Hara (29 April 1996) * Hara Bunbe (3 November 1996) * Kusaba Ryōhachi (29 April 1998) * Tsuchiya Yoshihiko (29 April 1999) * Itō Sōichirō (29 April 2001)

Posthumous awards

Yamada Akiyoshi Count , was a Japanese statesman, a samurai of Chōshū Domain, and one of the early leaders of the Meiji Restoration. In his youth he was commonly known as Yamada Ichinojō; however, he changed his name frequently during the Bakumatsu period ...

(14 November 1892) * Mōri Motonori (24 December 1896) * Shimazu Tadayoshi (26 December 1897) * Kawakami Soroku (11 May 1899) *

Ōki Takatō , was a Japanese people, Japanese statesman during the early Meiji period. He was Governor of Tokyo in 1868 and a member of the Japanese Privy Council in 1889.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Ōki Takatō" in . Biography Ōki was born ...

(11 September 1899) * Sano Jōmin (7 December 1902) * Soejima Taneomi (31 January 1905) *

Enomoto Takeaki Viscount was a Japanese samurai and admiral of the Tokugawa navy of Bakumatsu period Japan, who remained faithful to the Tokugawa shogunate and fought against the new Meiji government until the end of the Boshin War. He later served in the Me ...

(26 October 1908) * Okazawa Tadashi (12 December 1908) * Inoue Hikaru (27 December 1908) * Nomura Yasushi (24 January 1909) * Iwakura Tomosada (1 April 1910) * Takasaki Masakaze (28 February 1912) * Hitoshi Kanjiro (28 February 1912) * Tokugawa Yoshinobu (22 November 1913) * Aoki Shūzō (16 February 1914) * Matsuda Masahisa (5 March 1914) * Ōkubo Haruno (26 January 1915) * Takashima Tomonosuke (11 January 1916) * Katō Hiroyuki (9 February 1916) * Nakamuta Kuranosuke (30 March 1916) * Kamimura Hikonojō (8 August 1916) * Kuroda Kiyotsuna (23 March 1917) * Hanabusa Yoshitada (9 July 1917) *

Hachisuka Mochiaki was the 14th and final ''daimyō'' of Tokushima Domain, Awa Province, and the 2nd President of the House of Peers in Meiji period Japan. Early life Hachisuka was born at the Hachisuka domain residence in Edo, as the eldest son of the 13th ...

(10 February 1918) * Itagaki Taisuke (16 July 1919) * Masataka Kawase (29 September 1919) * Nakayama Takamaro (25 November 1919) * Sugi Magoshichirō (3 May 1920) * Suematsu Kenchō (6 October 1920) * Ijuin Gorō (13 January 1921) * Nabeshima Naohiro (19 June 1921) * Hatano Yoshinao (29 August 1922) * Hosokawa Junjirō (20 July 1923) * Tajiri Inejirō (15 August 1923) * Nanbu Mikao (19 September 1923) * Nakamura Satoru (29 January 1925) *

Miura Gorō Viscount was a lieutenant general in the early Imperial Japanese Army. Biography Miura was born in Hagi in Chōshū Domain (modern Yamaguchi Prefecture), to a '' samurai'' family with the name of Andō, but was adopted by the Miura that w ...

(28 January 1926) *

Hozumi Nobushige Baron was a Japanese statesman and jurist of the Meiji period. Hozumi was born in Uwajima Domain, Iyo Province (present-day Ehime Prefecture) as the second son to a family of ''kokugaku'' scholars. He graduated from the ''Kaisei Gakko'', (the ...

(8 April 1926) * Fujī Kōichi (9 July 1926) * Ōmori Shoichi (3 March 1927) * Asada Nobuoki (27 April 1927) *

Katō Sadakichi Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I. His brother, Katō Yasuhisa, was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, and his adoptive son was the biological son of Admiral Dewa Shigetō. Biography Katō was born ...

(5 September 1927) *

Ōsako Naoharu was a general in the early Imperial Japanese Army. He was the older brother of General Ōsako Naomichi.Kowner, '' Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War'', p. 273. Biography Ōsako was born as the eldest son to Ōsako Shinzō, a samur ...

(20 September 1927) *

Yamagata Isaburō Prince was a Japanese politician, cabinet minister, and Japanese Inspector-General of Korea. His wife was the daughter of Katō Hiroyuki. Biography Katsu Isaburō was born in Nagato Province in Chōshū Domain (present-day Yamaguchi prefecture ...

(24 September 1927) * Murakami Kakuichi (15 November 1927) * Matsukawa Toshitane (7 March 1928) * Ōshima Hisanao (27 September 1928) * Hattori Ichizō (25 January 1929) * Hirayama Narinobu (25 September 1929) *

Tanaka Giichi Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, politician, cabinet minister, and the Prime Minister of Japan from 1927 to 1929. Early life and military career Tanaka was born as the third son of a low-ranking ''samurai'' family in the se ...

(29 September 1929) *

Katsunosuke Inoue was a Japanese diplomat and businessman. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Inoue Katsunosuke"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 389. Diplomatic career Inoue served as Minister Plenipotentiary to Belgium in 1898. In 1898-1906, he served as Minister P ...

(3 November 1929) *

Dewa Shigetō Baron was a Japanese admiral in the early days of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Biography Dewa was born as the son of a '' samurai'' of the Aizu domain (present day Fukushima prefecture). As a youth, he enlisted in the ''Byakkotai,'' a reserve un ...

(27 January 1930) *

Yashiro Rokurō Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and Navy Minister, succeeding the last of the Satsuma-era naval leaders of the early Meiji period. Biography Military career Yashiro was born in Gakuden Village, Owari Province (present-day ...

(30 June 1930) * Akiyama Yoshifuru (4 November 1930) * Den Kenjirō (16 November 1930) * Matsumuro Itasu (16 February 1931) * Yamakawa Kenjirō (26 June 1931) * Kuki Ryūichi (18 August 1931) * Ichinohe Hyoe (12 September 1931) * Yoshinori Shirakawa (26 May 1932) *

Hidaka Sōnojō Baron was an admiral of the early modern Imperial Japanese Navy, known primarily for his role in the First Sino-Japanese War. Biography Hidaka was the second son of a samurai in the service of the Shimazu clan of Satsuma Domain, and was bor ...

(24 July 1932) *

Egi Kazuyuki Egi Kazuyuki (May 21, 1853 – August 23, 1932) was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture in 1898–1903. He was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture. He was also governor of Ibaraki Prefecture (1896–1897), Tochigi Prefect ...

(23 August 1932) *

Andō Teibi Baron , also known as Teibi Andō, was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and 6th Governor-General of Taiwan from 30 April 1915 to 6 June 1918. Biography ''Incorporates translations from the corresponding Japanese Wikipedia article'' Andō ...

(29 August 1932) *

Nobuyoshi Mutō '' Gensui'' Baron was Commander of the Kwantung Army in 1933, Japanese ambassador to Manchukuo, and a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army. Biography Mutō was born in an ex''-samurai'' family from Saga Domain. After graduating from the I ...

(27 July 1933) *

Furuichi Kōi Baron was a civil engineer, president of '' Kōka Daigaku'', the present college of engineering of the University of Tokyo, and founding president of the Tokyo Underground Railway(東京地下鉄道), "the first underground railway in the Orie ...

(28 January 1934) * Okada Ryōhei (23 March 1934) * Nakahashi Tokugorō (25 March 1934) *

Mineichirō Adachi was a Japanese legal expert and President of the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague from 1931 until 1934. Early life Adachi was born in what is now the town of Yamanobe, Yamagata, Japan. In 1892, he graduated from the law sch ...

(28 December 1934) * Tokonami Takejirō (8 September 1935) * Tomii Masaaki (14 September 1935) * Jōtarō Watanabe (26 February 1936) * Kubota Yuzuru (14 April 1936) * Uryū Sotokichi (11 November 1937) * Kurino Shin'ichirō (15 November 1937) * Arai Kentarō (29 January 1938) * Sakurai Jōji (28 January 1939) * Kuroda Nagashige (14 June 1939) * Suzuki Kisaburō (24 June 1940) * Kawai Misao (11 October 1941) *

Mineo Ōsumi Baron was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and served twice as Minister of the Navy of Japan during the volatile 1930s. Biography Early life Ōsumi was born in what is now the city of Inazawa, Aichi. He was a graduate of the 24th class o ...

(19 October 1941) * Ishizuka Eizō (28 July 1942) *

Senjūrō Hayashi was a Japanese politician and general. He served as Imperial Japanese Army Commander of the Japanese Korean Army during the Mukden Incident and the invasion of Manchuria. He briefly served as Prime Minister of Japan in 1937. Early life Hay ...

(4 February 1943) * Mineichi Koga (5 May 1944) * Arima Ryokitsu (11 May 1944) *

Yoshimichi Hara Yoshimichi Hara (原嘉道) (February 18, 1867 – August 7, 1944) was a Japanese statesman and the president of the Japanese privy council during World War II, from June 1940 until his death. Hara was always reluctant to use military force. In p ...

(7 August 1944) * Nomaguchi Kimuotoko (12 December 1944) * Uchiyama Kojirō (14 February 1945) *

Ishii Kikujirō Viscount , was a Japanese diplomat and cabinet minister in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japan. He served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan between 1915 and 1916. Biography Ishii was born in Mobara city, Kazusa ...

(26 May 1945) * Minami Hiroshi (8 February 1946) * Matsui Keishirō (4 June 1946) * Kubota Shizutarō (6 October 1946) * Mamoru Shigemitsu (26 January 1957) *

Hitoshi Ashida was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan in 1948. He was a prominent figure in the immediate postwar political landscape, but was forced to resign his leadership responsibilities after a corruption scandal (Shōwa Denkō Jik ...

(20 June 1959) * Hayashi Jōji (5 April 1960) * Kawai Yahachi (21 July 1960) *

Teijirō Toyoda was a career naval officer who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1941 and as admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Biography Early life Toyoda was born in Wakayama Prefecture as the son of a former samurai retai ...

(21 November 1961) * Matsuno Tsuruhei (18 October 1962) * Kichisaburō Nomura (8 May 1964) * Ōno Banboku (29 May 1964) * Kenkichi Yoshizawa (5 January 1965) * Kōno Ichirō (8 July 1965) * Katsuo Okazaki (10 October 1965) * Kiyose Ichirō (27 June 1967) * Matsutarō Shōriki (9 October 1969) * Kawashima Shōjirō (9 November 1970) * Matsumura Kenzō (21 August 1971) * Naotake Satō (18 December 1971) *

Tanzan Ishibashi was a Japanese journalist, Nichiren Buddhist priest, and politician who was Prime Minister of Japan for two months from 1956 to 1957, before resigning due to illness. He simultaneously served as Director General of the Japan Defense Agency. ...

(25 April 1973) * Masutani Hidetsugu (18 August 1973) *

Kiichi Aichi was a Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ...

(23 November 1973) *

Tatsuo Sato (politician) was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party and a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Fukushima, Fukushima, he attended the University of Tokyo and passed the bar exam while in the ...

(12 September 1974) * Taizō Ishizaka (6 March 1975) * Ohama Nobumoto (13 February 1976) *

Tetsu Katayama was a Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1947 to 1948. He bears the distinction of having been the first socialist to serve as Prime Minister of Japan. Early life He was born in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture on 28 July ...

(30 May 1978) * Uemura Kōgorō (1 August 1978) * Hori Shigeru (4 March 1979) * Shiina Etsusaburo (30 September 1979) * Hoshijima Jirō (3 January 1980) * Ichiro Nakayama (9 April 1980) * Maeo Shigesaburō (23 July 1981) * Ishii Mitsujirō (20 September 1981) *

Ryotaro Azuma was a Japanese physician and bureaucrat who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1959 to 1967. In 1950, Azuma became a member of the international Olympic Committee (IOC). Education Born in Osaka, he attended Tokyo Imperial University and studied ...

(26 May 1983) * Nagano Shigeo (4 May 1984) * Ushiba Nobuhiko (31 December 1984) * Aiichiro Fujiyama (22 February 1985) * Nishimura Eiichi (15 September 1987) * Inayama Yoshihiro (9 October 1987) * Shintaro Abe (15 May 1991) *

Michio Watanabe was a Japanese political figure. He was born in Ōtawara, Tochigi and graduated from the Tokyo College of Commerce (now Hitotsubashi University) in 1942. He worked as a reporter for the ''Yomiuri Shimbun'', a certified tax accountant, and a me ...

(15 September 1995) * Masaru Ibuka (19 December 1997) * Nikaidō Susumu (3 February 2000) * Saito Eishiro (22 April 2002)

Ordinary recipients of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers (from 2003)

''Information from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia''

Awards to living recipients

* Yamaguchi Shigeru (29 April 2005) * Murayama Tomiichi (29 April 2006) * Hiraiwa Gaishi (3 November 2006) * Shoichiro Toyoda (3 November 2007) * Machida Akira (3 November 2007) * Kurata Hiroyuki (29 April 2008) *

Tamisuke Watanuki is a Japanese politician from the Toyama Prefecture. He started his own export-import company at age 28. He graduated from the Department of Economics at Keio University and ran for the Prefectural Assembly in 1959. He was elected to the Die ...

(29 April 2010) *

Niro Shimada was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan. Born in Tokyo, he attended the University of Tokyo, graduating with an LL.B. and passing the bar examination in 1962. He was appointed as an assistant judge in 1964 and rotated through the cri ...

(29 April 2010) *

Chikage Oogi , real name (born 10 May 1933 as , is a Japanese actress and politician. During her 30-year-long political career, she served in some important posts. She became the first female President of the House of Councillors in 2004. Her pseudonymou ...

(3 November 2010) *

Toshiki Kaifu was a Japanese politician who served as the 77th Prime Minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991. Early life and education Kaifu was born on 2 January 1931, in Nagoya City, the eldest of six brothers. His family's business Nakamura Photo Studio w ...

(29 April 2011) * Yōhei Kōno (3 November 2011) *

Tsutomu Hata was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan for nine weeks in 1994. He took over from Morihiro Hosokawa at the head of a coalition government. Shortly after he had been appointed Prime Minister, the Japanese Socialist Party ...

(29 April 2013) *

Hironobu Takesaki is a Japanese lawyer and a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan. He is a graduate of the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law and of Columbia Law School. At age 64, Takesaki replaced Niro Shimada as the Chief Justice when November ...

(3 November 2015) * Satsuki Eda (3 November 2016) * Yoshirō Mori (29 April 2017)

Posthumous awards

Yutaka Inoue Yutaka is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Yutaka can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *豊, "bountiful" *裕, "affluence" *穣, "fertile" *温, "warmth" The name can also be written in hiragana ゆた ...

(22 June 2008) *

Takeo Nishioka was a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) who served as a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Nagasaki and a graduate of Waseda University , mottoeng = Independence of scholarship , establishe ...

(5 November 2011) Japanese Wikipedia *

Nobutaka Machimura was a Japanese politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Japan and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.Pavle Jurišić Šturm Pavle Jurišić Šturm KCMG ( sr-cyr, Павле Јуришић Штурм; 8 August 1848 – 13 January 1922), born Paulus Eugen Sturm, was a Serbian general of Sorbian origin, best known for commanding the Serbian 3rd Army in World War I ...

(1848–1922), 1917 * Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967) * John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (1859–1935) * Yuan Shikai (1859–1916) *

Henry Willard Denison Henry Willard Denison (May 11, 1846 – July 3, 1914) was an American diplomat and lawyer, active in Meiji period Japan. Biography Denison was born in Guildhall, Vermont, and spent his early years at Lancaster, New Hampshire. He was a gradua ...

(1846–1914), 1902 * John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920)Honor conferred 1917 -- *

Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was a senior British Army officer and Imperial Governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and also in the First World War, in which he le ...

(1861–1936), 1922 * Robert Walker Irwin (1844–1925) *

Douglas MacArthur Douglas MacArthur (26 January 18805 April 1964) was an American military leader who served as General of the Army for the United States, as well as a field marshal to the Philippine Army. He had served with distinction in World War I, was ...

(1880–1964) * Ali Osman Pasha (1890) *

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (, ; 4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military leader and statesman. He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War of 1918, as Regent of Finland (1918–1919), as c ...

(1867–1951) * Mike Mansfield (1903–2001)Honor conferred 1990 -- Campi, Alicia
"The Role of Mike Mansfield in Consolidating Mongolia's International Status and in Establishing Diplomatic Relations with the United States,"
The Mansfield Foundation. 17 May 2007. *

George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven Captain George Louis Victor Henry Serge Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, (6 November 1892Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv; Wiesbaden, Deutschland; Bestand: ''901''; Laufende Nummer: ''150'' – 8 April 1938), born Prince George of Batten ...

(1892–1938) *

George Shultz George Pratt Shultz (; December 13, 1920February 6, 2021) was an American economist, businessman, diplomat and statesman. He served in various positions under two different Republican presidents and is one of the only two persons to have held fo ...

(1920–2021) *

Walter Mondale Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (January 5, 1928 – April 19, 2021) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter. A U.S. senator from Minnesota ...

(1928–2021), 3 November 2008 * Howard Baker (1925–2014), 3 November 2008 * Daniel Inouye (1924–2012), 24 June 2011 * François Fillon (1954–)Honor conferred in 2013
"François Fillon sera décoré par le Japon"
Le Figaro, 7 May 2013 * Tom Foley (1929–2013), 1995

Trilateral Commission The Trilateral Commission is a nongovernmental international organization aimed at fostering closer cooperation between Japan, Western Europe and North America. It was founded in July 1973 principally by American banker and philanthropist David ...

Foley, bio notes
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(1932–), 5 November 2014 * Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015), 23 March 2015 *

(1925-), 2018 * Yi Jae-gak (1874-1935), 1905

Notes

References

* 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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Japan Mint The is an Independent Administrative Institution of the Japanese government, responsible for producing and circulating the coins of Japan. The agency has its head office in Osaka with branches in Saitama and Hiroshima. The Japan Mint does no ...

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Insignia

Complete listing of ordinary (non-royal) recipients of the Order

Ordinary recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers (1888–2003)

Awards to living recipients

Posthumous awards

Ordinary recipients of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers (from 2003)

Awards to living recipients

Posthumous awards

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