This year's spring decorations will recognize 4,024 Japanese and 90 foreign people for their achievements in business, culture and the arts, the government said Friday.

Yorihiko Kojima, 74, former chairman of Mitsubishi Corp., and Mitsuhiro Uesugi, 74, a former home affairs minister, are among the seven people to receive the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, the highest honor in this spring's commendations.

Singer Saburo Kitajima, 79, whose real name is Minoru Ono, and writer Kiyoko Murata, 71, were to receive the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette.

Of the Japanese recipients, 381 are women, accounting for a record 9.5 percent, and 1,798 or 44.7 percent, are from the private sector.

Among the 90 people from 44 other countries, Strobe Talbott, 70, former U.S. deputy secretary of state, and Jerome Friedman, 86, a Nobel laureate in physics and institute professor, emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will receive the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun.

The awards ceremony will be held May 10 at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo with Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in attendance.