Former U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian are among 136 people to be recognized in this year's autumn decorations for notable contributions to relations with Japan, the government said Sunday. The foreign recipients, hailing from 65 countries and Taiwan, ...
Ex-U.S. diplomats among 149 foreign nationals set to receive high government honor
The government said Friday it will bestow decorations on a record 149 foreign nationals this fall — including former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — as well as 4,103 Japanese for their achievements across a wide ...
Record 96 non-Japanese to receive government decorations this fall
Among those set to receive government decorations at the Imperial Palace this autumn will be 96 foreign nationals, the most ever.
Double foreign winners of Japanese decoration and medals: panel
A government panel reviewing Japan's decoration and medal award system has proposed almost doubling the number of foreign awardees to 300 per year in a phased approach. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government is expected to revise the system from this fall's awards based on Thursday's ...
4,024 Japanese, 90 non-Japanese in line for government's spring decorations
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 ...
Rumsfeld, Van Rompuy among thousands getting Japanese awards
The government this week will honor 3,964 of the country's most distinguished citizens while also conferring orders on a record 89 foreigners from 38 nations, including former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, officials said Tuesday. Rumsfeld, 83, and former European Council President Herman Van ...
Nineteen-year-old figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu, who won a gold medal in the Sochi Olympics, is among the 684 people and 23 groups receiving this year's spring decorations, including a record 206 women, the government said Monday. Joining Hanyu to receive the Medal with Purple Ribbon, ...
