Decorations, Commendations and Awards
2024/10/28
Decorations by the Government of Japan
2024
- Japanese Government honours Dr Richard Jones Hatchett
- Japanese Government honours Mrs Elizabeth Jane Hasell-McCosh
- Japanese Government honours Sir Neil Cossons
- Japanese Government honours Mr Michael Houlihan
2023
- Memorial Reception for Ambassador Katsuhiko Oku and Bestowal Ceremony for Decoration of Mr Reg Clark, and Oku Memorial Trophy rugby matches
- Japanese Government honours Miss Janice Brennan
- Japanese Government honours Sir Michael Arthur
2022
- Japanese Government honours Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
- Japanese Government honours Lady Arden of Heswall (Mary Howarth Arden)
2021
- Japanese Government honours Mr MITSUYAMA Yoshio
- Japanese Government honours Sir Michael Rake
- Japanese Government honours Sir Jeremy Farrar
- Japanese Government honours Dr Rupert Faulkner
- Japanese Government honours Mr Timothy Thorburn Clark
2020
- Japanese Government honours Mr Takaaki Hanaoka
- Japanese Government honours Professor Marie Conte-Helm
2019
- Japanese Government honours Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham, OM, KBE, PC, FRS
- Japanese Government honours Reverend Professor Kemmyo Taira Sato
- Japanese Government honours Sir Paul Nurse
- Japanese Government honours Sir David Alexander Warren KCMG
2018
- Japanese Government honours Professor Baron Peter Piot KCMG
- Japanese Government honours Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE
- Japanese Government honours Sir Graham Fry KCMG
- Japanese Government honours Mr Peter Heginbotham OBE
- Japanese Government honours Mrs Keiko Holmes OBE
- Japanese Government honours Professor Peter F. Kornicki
- Japanese Government honours Mr Robert Ketchell
- Japanese Government honours Dr David W. Hughes
- Japanese Government honours The Rt Hon the Lord Hague of Richmond
2017
- Japanese Government honours Dr Joy Hendry
- Japanese Government honours Dr Eric Albone MBE
- Japanese Government honours Mr Stephen McEnally
- Japanese Government honours The Rt Hon Lord Howard of Lympne CH QC
2016
- Japanese Government honours Ms Heidi Caroline Potter OBE
- Japanese Government honours The Rt Hon. the Lord Cunningham of Felling DL
- Japanese Government honours Mr Bill Emmott
- Japanese Government honours Mrs Mary-Grace Browning MBE
Pre-2016
Commendations and Awards by the Foreign Minister of Japan
2024
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Mrs Phillida Purvis MBE
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Dr Philip King
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Mr Robin James Maynard MBE
2023
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation – Professor Roger Goodman and the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation – Lady Victoria Borwick and the Sakura Cherry Tree Project Committee
2022
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Mr Adrian Shooter
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Ms Rebecca Salter
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Dr Clare Pollard
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Dr Mike William Weightman
- Foreign Minister’s Certificate of Appreciation - Sir Roger Gifford
2021
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Ms YAMANAKA Masumi
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Ms Anna Jackson
2020
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Ms Rie Yoshitake
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Mr Noel Thatcher MBE
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Professor Robin Grimes
2019
2018
- Foreign Minister's Commendation - Councillor Robert Freeman
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Ms Suzanne Hudson
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Professor Michael Clarke
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Professor Shinichi Ohnuma
2017
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation – Mr Timothy Clark
- Foreign Minister’s Commendation – Professor Mark Williams
2016
- Foreign Minister's Commendation - Mr Reg Clark
- Foreign Minister's Commendation - Mr Takaaki Hanaoka
- Foreign Minister's Commendation – The Japan Society
Pre-2016
Commendations by the Japanese Ambassador to the UK
2024
- Ambassador’s Commendation – Professor Geraldine Thomas OBE
- Ambassador’s Commendation - Professor Dapo Akande
2023
- Ambassador’s Commendation - Mr Steve Dalton OBE
- Ambassador’s Commendation - Mr John Gordon-Smith
- Ambassador’s Commendation - Professor Alessio Patalano
- Ambassador’s Commendation - Dr Helen Macnaughtan
- Ambassador’s Commendation - UK-Japan Music Society
- Ambassador’s Commendation - Dr Robin Wilson
2021
2020
2019
- Ambassador's Commendation - Mr David James
- Ambassador's Commendation - Mr Kenji Sakatsugi
- Ambassador's Commendation - Ms Sarah Parsons
- Ambassador's Commendation - Commander David Hilton
- Ambassador's Commendation - Professor Hiroshi Oda
2018
- Ambassador's Commendation - The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
- Ambassador's Commendation - Professor Chizu Nakajima and Mr Scott Hopkins
2017
- Ambassador's Commendation - Mrs Yoko Morishima
- Ambassador's Commendation - Japanese Culinary Academy UK
- Ambassador's Commendation - Ms Janice Brennan