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{{Infobox order
|title           = Order of the Rising Sun<br />旭日章
|image           = File:Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun.png
|caption         = Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1st class)
|awarded_by      = the [[Emperor of Japan]]
|type            = [[Order (decoration)|Order]]
|founded=10 April 1875<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WiYYAQAAMAAJ&q=10%20%22April%22%20%221875%22%20rising%20sun%20japan |title=World Orders of Knighthood & Merit |publisher=[[Burke's Peerage & Gentry]] |year=2006 |editor-last=Sainty |editor-first=Guy Stair |pages=1257 |isbn=978-0-9711966-7-4 |quote=Order of the Rising Sun...Founded by the Emperor Meiji through the Council of State decree of 10 April 1875 |editor-last2=Heydel-Mankoo |editor-first2=Rafal}}</ref>|day             =
|eligibility     =
|for             = Meritorious service to the state
|status          = Currently constituted
|head_title      = Sovereign
|head            = HM [[Naruhito|The Emperor]]
|chancellor      =
|commander       =
|grades          = 1st through 8th Class (1875–2003)<br />Since 2003:<br />Grand Cordon<br />Gold and Silver Star (Rays, Principal Grade)<br />Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon (Cordon, Middle Grade)<br />Gold Rays with Rosette (Cordon, Junior Grade)<br />Gold and Silver Rays (Double Rays)<br />Silver Rays (Single Ray)
|date            = 10 April 1875
|first_induction =
|last_induction  =
|total           =
|recipients      =
|individual      =
|higher          = [[Order of the Paulownia Flowers]]
|lower           = 
|same            = [[Order of the Sacred Treasure]]<br />[[Order of the Precious Crown]]<br />[[Order of Culture]]
|image2          =[[File:JPN Kyokujitsu-sho blank BAR.svg|100px]]
|caption2        =
}}

The {{Nihongo|'''Order of the Rising Sun'''|旭日章|Kyokujitsu-shō}} is a [[Japanese honors system|Japanese order]], established in 1875 by [[Emperor Meiji]]. The Order was the first [[national decoration]] awarded by the [[Japanese government]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www8.cao.go.jp/shokun/en/index-e.html|title=Decorations Bureau web site|publisher=CAO|access-date=5 November 2011|archive-date=29 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229083008/https://www8.cao.go.jp/shokun/en/index-e.html|url-status=live}}</ref> created on 10 April 1875 by decree of the Council of State.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WiYYAQAAMAAJ&q=10%20%22April%22%20%221875%22%20rising%20sun%20japan |title=World Orders of Knighthood & Merit |publisher=[[Burke's Peerage & Gentry]] |year=2006 |editor-last=Sainty |editor-first=Guy Stair |pages=1257 |isbn=978-0-9711966-7-4 |quote=Order of the Rising Sun...Founded by the Emperor Meiji through the Council of State decree of 10 April 1875 |editor-last2=Heydel-Mankoo |editor-first2=Rafal |access-date=22 June 2024 |archive-date=20 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820155036/https://books.google.com/books?id=WiYYAQAAMAAJ&q=10%20%22April%22%20%221875%22%20rising%20sun%20japan |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=WWII Japanese Order Of The Rising Sun 7th Class |url=http://quanonline.com/military/military_reference/japanese/rising_sun_7.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927121355/https://quanonline.com/military/military_reference/japanese/rising_sun_7.php |archive-date=September 27, 2023 |access-date=5 November 2011 |publisher=Quan online}}</ref> The badge features rays of sunlight from the rising sun. The design of the Rising Sun symbolizes energy as powerful as the rising sun<ref name="emb-japan1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.au.emb-japan.go.jp/e_web/news/archives/Honours.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20110721015620/http://www.au.emb-japan.go.jp/e_web/news/archives/Honours.htm|url-status=dead|title=Embassy of Japan in Australia|archive-date=21 July 2011}}</ref> 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 [[#Criteria for awarding|various fields]] except military service. Since there is no order for military achievements under the current Japanese system, [[Japan Self-Defense Forces]] personnel are awarded the [[Order of the Sacred Treasure]] for their long engagement in public service.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150529145720/http://www.sankei.com/politics/news/140715/plt1407150012-n1.html 元統幕議長への瑞宝大綬章は首相指示] [[Sankei Shinbun]]. 15 July 2015</ref> 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.<ref name=NewAward>[https://www8.cao.go.jp/shokun/shurui-juyotaisho-kunsho/tokasho.html Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229083009/https://www8.cao.go.jp/shokun/shurui-juyotaisho-kunsho/tokasho.html |date=29 December 2022 }} Cabinet Office</ref>

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.<ref name ="eiten6">[https://web.archive.org/web/20210226103835/https://www8.cao.go.jp/shokun/yushikisha/290619shiryo6.pdf 栄典制度の概要. p.6] [[Cabinet Office (Japan)]]</ref> 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.<ref name ="eiten6"/>

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.<ref name ="eiten6"/> The Order of the Rising Sun and the Order of the Sacred Treasure became the same rank of orders,<ref name ="eiten6"/> and one of them came to be awarded because of the difference in the nature of the contribution to the state.<ref name = "eiten5">[https://web.archive.org/web/20210226103835/https://www8.cao.go.jp/shokun/yushikisha/290619shiryo6.pdf 栄典制度の概要. p.5] [[Cabinet Office (Japan)]]</ref> 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.<ref name="kijun">[https://web.archive.org/web/20220602075033/https://www8.cao.go.jp/shokun/seidokaikaku/juyokijun.pdf 勲章の授与基準.] [[Cabinet Office (Japan)]]</ref>

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).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/news/gluck-risingsun1.html|title=Weatherhead East Asian Institute web site|author=Carol Gluck|publisher=Columbia University|date=1 May 2006|access-date=5 November 2011|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924043754/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/news/gluck-risingsun1.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The awarding of the Order is administered by the Decoration Bureau of the [[Cabinet Office (Japan)|Cabinet Office]] headed by the [[Prime Minister of Japan|Japanese prime minister]]. It is awarded in the name of the [[Emperor of Japan|emperor]] and can be awarded [[Posthumous recognition|posthumously]].

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.<ref name = "eiten5"/>

== Criteria for awarding ==
[[File:UsgovrisingsunGC.jpg|thumb|right|200px|US Navy Admiral [[Dennis C. Blair]] (2002). He was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1st class) for his contribution to the stability and development of the international community.]]
The Order of the Rising Sun is awarded to the following contributions of women, men or other persons;<ref name ="eiten10">[https://web.archive.org/web/20210226103835/https://www8.cao.go.jp/shokun/yushikisha/290619shiryo6.pdf 栄典制度の概要. p.10] [[Cabinet Office (Japan)]]</ref>
* to the stability and development of the international community.
* to the realization of appropriate tax payment.
* to the promotion of school education or social education.
* to the promotion of culture or sports.
* to the promotion of science and technology.
* to the improvement and promotion of social welfare.
* to the improvement and promotion of the health or public health of citizens.
* to the improvement of the working environment for workers.
* to environmental conservation.
The same conditions are valid for 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.
* has contributed to the public interest by engaging in the services of an attorney, certified public accountant, patent attorney, etc.
* contributed to the public interest by engaging in the work of newspapers, broadcasting or other news reporting.
* is 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 of Japan|Prime Minister]], [[Speaker of the House of Representatives (Japan)|Speaker of the House of Representatives]], [[President of the House of Councillors]], 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]], Senior Vice-Minister, Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives, Vice President of the House of Councilors, or Judge of the Supreme Court.<ref name ="eiten11">[https://web.archive.org/web/20210226103835/https://www8.cao.go.jp/shokun/yushikisha/290619shiryo6.pdf 栄典制度の概要. p.11, p.12] [[Cabinet Office (Japan)]]</ref>

== Classes ==
The Order was awarded in nine classes until 2003, when the Grand Cordon with Paulownia Flowers was made a [[Order of the Paulownia Flowers|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:
{{blockquote|By the grace of Heaven, [[Emperor of Japan]], seated on the throne occupied by the same dynasty from time immemorial,

We confer the ''[[Order of the Sacred Treasure|Second Class of the Imperial Order of Meiji]]'' upon [[Henry W. Taft|Henry Waters Taft]], a citizen of the United States of America and a director of the [[Japan Society of New York]], and invest him with the insignia of the same class of the ''Order of the Double Rays of the Rising Sun,'' in expression of the good will which we entertain towards him.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hand and caused the [[State Seal of Japan|Grand Seal of State]] to be affixed at the [[Kōkyo|Imperial Palace]], [[Tokyo]], this thirteenth day of the fifth month of the fourth year of [[Shōwa period|Shōwa]], corresponding to the 2,589th year from the accession to the throne of [[Emperor Jimmu]]."<ref name="nyt1929"/>}}

== 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 and 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 (decoration)|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.
<gallery mode="packed" style="text-align: center;" heights="250" perrow="3">
File:Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers.png|Separated into [[Order of the Paulownia Flowers|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)
</gallery>

== Notable recipients ==
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=== 1st Class, Grand Cordon ===

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* [[Mustapa Mohamed]] (1950–), 2024<ref>{{cite web |title=2024 Spring Conferment of Decorations |url=https://www.my.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/newinfo_29042024.html |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |access-date=29 April 2024 |language=en |archive-date=29 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429032908/https://www.my.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/newinfo_29042024.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Tony Abbott]] (1957–), Former Australian Prime Minister, 2022<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/tony-abbott-receives-grand-cordon-of-the-order-of-the-rising-sun-from-japanese-government-for-service-to-strengthening-relations/news-story/8a7899ae37d506170e7015bd612acb6f|title=Tony Abbott receives Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun from Japanese government for service to strengthening relations|website=www.skynews.com.au|date=29 April 2022|access-date=23 December 2022|archive-date=25 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225114723/https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/tony-abbott-receives-grand-cordon-of-the-order-of-the-rising-sun-from-japanese-government-for-service-to-strengthening-relations/news-story/8a7899ae37d506170e7015bd612acb6f|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Creighton Abrams]]
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* [[Soichiro Honda]] (1906–1991), 1991
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* [[S. Jayakumar (Singaporean politician)|S. Jayakumar]], 2012<ref>{{cite web|title=Japan to confer award on former DPM Jayakumar|url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1198094/1/.html|publisher=ChannelNewsAsia|access-date=29 April 2012|archive-date=28 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120428223648/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1198094/1/.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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* [[Ashwani Kumar (politician)|Ashwani Kumar]], 2017
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* [[Ibrahim of Johor|Ibrahim Mabrouk]] (1873–1959), 1934
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* [[John Major|Sir John Major]], 2012
* [[Mike Mansfield]], 1990
* Baron [[Matsuoka Yasutake|Yasutake Matsuoka]], 1906
* [[Yōsuke Matsuoka]], 1940
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* [[Mahathir Mohamad]], 1991
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* [[Ivan Mrkić]], 2018<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tokyo.mfa.gov.rs/newstext.php?subaction=showfull&id=1525856117&ucat=19& |title=Ambassador and former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Serbia H.E. Mr. Ivan Mrkić conferred Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun in Japan |access-date=8 February 2019 |archive-date=5 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105060352/http://www.tokyo.mfa.gov.rs/newstext.php?subaction=showfull&id=1525856117&ucat=19& |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller]] (1859–1941)
* [[A. M. Nair]], alias "Nair-San"
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* [[Ben Ngubane]], 2010<ref>[https://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/announce/2010/11/pdfs/110301.pdf 2010 Autumn Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals], Ministary of Foreign Affairs, Government of Japan.</ref>
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* [[Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul|Rear Admiral Ali Osman Pasha]], 1890
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* [[Nancy Pelosi]], 2015<ref>{{cite web|date=2015-05-08|title=Pelosi Accepts Award from the Government of Japan|url=https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-accepts-award-from-the-government-of-japan|access-date=2021-03-09|website=Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi|language=en|archive-date=25 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125213839/https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-accepts-award-from-the-government-of-japan|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[William J. Perry]], 2002<ref>Stamford alumni: [http://www.stanfordalumni.org/learningtravel/travelstudy/tsFacultyDetails.html?content-inst-id=114394&content_instance_id=114394 William Perry bio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611060213/http://www.stanfordalumni.org/learningtravel/travelstudy/tsFacultyDetails.html?content-inst-id=114394&content_instance_id=114394 |date=11 June 2011 }}; "4,632 people win awards for contributing to Japan," ''Japan Times,'' 3 November 2002.</ref>
* [[John J. Pershing]], 1918 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9w8sAQAAMAAJ&dq=pershing+order+of+the+rising+sun&pg=RA20-PA1|title=Official U.S. Bulletin|date=9 July 1918|publisher=Committee on Public Information|accessdate=9 July 2023|via=Google Books}}</ref>
* [[Plaek Phibunsongkhram]], 1942
* [[Józef Piłsudski]], 1928<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genealogia.okiem.pl/pilsudski_odznaczenia.htm|title=Lista WSZYSTKICH odznaczeń Józefa Piłsudskiego|first=Marcin|last=Niewalda|website=www.genealogia.okiem.pl|access-date=15 January 2013|archive-date=17 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517174130/http://www.genealogia.okiem.pl/pilsudski_odznaczenia.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Herbert Plumer]] (1857–1932)
* [[Ram Chandra Poudel]], 2020
* [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]] (1893–1946), 1937
* [[Condoleezza Rice]], 2017<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/english/html/pressreleases/2017/order-of-the-rising-sun-rice.html| title=2017 Autumn Conferment of Decoration| date=3 November 2017| access-date=2019-09-11| archive-date=6 August 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806030656/https://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/english/html/pressreleases/2017/order-of-the-rising-sun-rice.html| url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Edward A. Rice Jr.]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioID=6896 |title=Biographies : General Edward A. Rice, Jr|publisher=The US Army |access-date=5 November 2011 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718091023/http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioID=6896 |archive-date=18 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Jay Rockefeller]], 2013<ref>{{cite web |title=Conferral of the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun upon Senator John Davison Rockefeller IV |url=https://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/english/html/pressreleases/2013/order-of-the-rising-sun-2013-rockefeller.html |publisher=Embassy of Japan in the United States of America |date=3 November 2013}}</ref>
* [[Herman Van Rompuy]], 2015<ref name="autumn 2015">{{cite web |date=3 November 2015 |title=秋の叙勲3964人 桐花大綬章に竹崎元最高裁長官 |trans-title=Medal in autumn 2015: 3,964 people |url=https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLASFS01H3X_S5A101C1PP8000/ |website=[[The Nikkei]] |access-date=22 June 2020}}</ref>
* [[Donald Rumsfeld]], 2015<ref name="autumn 2015" />
* [[Eishiro Saito]], in 1992<ref>{{cite web |title=訃報（経団連名誉会長、当社社友名誉会長 斎藤英四郎殿）[News of death: President Emeritus of Keidanren, Honorary Chairman of our company, Saito Eishiro] |url=https://www.nipponsteel.com/news/old_nsc/detail/index.html?rec_id=2700 |website=Nippon Steel |access-date=22 June 2019 |archive-date=6 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806041133/https://www.nipponsteel.com/news/old_nsc/detail/index.html?rec_id=2700 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Saisho Atsushi]], 1906
* [[Klaus Schwab]], 2013
* [[Abid Sharifov]], 2016
* [[Paul de Smet de Naeyer|Count Paul de Smet de Naeyer]],
* [[Shoichiro Toyoda]], 2002<ref name="sae2005">MCADCafé: [http://www10.mcadcafe.com/nbc/articles/index.php?articleid=171359  "Dr.Shoichiro Toyoda To Receive SAE Foundation's 2005 Manufacturing Leadership Award,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714055950/http://www10.mcadcafe.com/nbc/articles/index.php?articleid=171359 |date=14 July 2011 }} [[PR Newswire]]. 15 March 2005.</ref>
* [[Chea Sim]], 2013<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/japanese-government-awards-chea-sim-order-of-the-rising-sun-46601/|title=Japanese Government Awards Chea Sim Order of the Rising Sun|author=Saing Soenthrith|publisher=[[The Cambodia Daily]]|date=5 November 2013|access-date=31 May 2014|archive-date=7 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907165213/https://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/japanese-government-awards-chea-sim-order-of-the-rising-sun-46601/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Edward Śmigły-Rydz]], (1886–1941)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wspolnota-polska.org.pl/index39ab.html?id=pw11|title=Stowarzyszenie Wspólnota Polska|website=www.wspolnota-polska.org.pl|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150609031011/http://wspolnota-polska.org.pl/index39ab.html?id=pw11|archive-date=9 June 2015}}</ref>
* [[Isamu Takeshita]] (1869–1949), 1920
* [[Strobe Talbott]], 2016
* [[Masanori Tanimoto]], former governor of [[Ishikawa Prefecture]], 2023<ref>{{cite web|title=7-Ki 28-nen Ishikawa no "Kosei" Migaki Age Tanimoto Masanori Zen Chiji ni Kyokujitsudaiju-shō |script-title=ja:7期28年 石川の“個性”磨き上げ 谷本正憲前知事に旭日大綬章|trans-title=Former Governor Masanori Tanimoto awarded Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun for polishing Ishikawa's "individuality" over 28 years |url=https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/mro/817686?display=1 |website=[[Japan News Network]] |access-date=30 April 2025 |language=ja |date=3 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[Ratan Tata]], 2012<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.in.emb-japan.go.jp/Press_Releases_Embassy/PR08-2012.html|title=Embassy of Japan in India|website=www.in.emb-japan.go.jp|accessdate=9 July 2023|archive-date=26 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326221714/https://www.in.emb-japan.go.jp/Press_Releases_Embassy/PR08-2012.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Te Atairangikaahu|Her Majesty Queen Te Atairangikaahu]] of New Zealand (1931–2006), 1970
* [[Ahmad Rithauddeen Ismail|Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen]], 2018<ref>{{cite news|title=Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen Awarded One of Japan's Highest Honours|url=https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/02/07/tengku-ahmad-rithauddeen-awarded-one-of-japans-highest-honours|access-date=29 August 2019|newspaper=[[The Star Online]]|date=7 February 2018|archive-date=22 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022043157/https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/02/07/tengku-ahmad-rithauddeen-awarded-one-of-japans-highest-honours|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[John Anthony Cecil Tilley]] (1869–1952)<ref><!-- not verified? honor awarded 1927? -->Kurita, Shunjiro. (1930). [https://books.google.com/books?id=fYs0AAAAIAAJ ''Who's Who in Japan,'' Vol. 13, p. 40] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820160712/https://books.google.com/books?id=fYs0AAAAIAAJ |date=20 August 2024 }}; Cambridge University Alumni 1261–1900</ref>
* [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] (1837–1913), 1908<ref>Honor awarded 1908: [http://www.pref.ibaraki.jp/bukyoku/seikan/kokuko/e-ibaraki-report/0609yoshinobu.html Ibaraki Prefecture e-newsletter] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071202092922/http://www.pref.ibaraki.jp/bukyoku/seikan/kokuko/e-ibaraki-report/0609yoshinobu.html |date=2 December 2007 }}</ref>
* [[Goh Chok Tong]], 2011<ref name="gct-2011">S Ramesh. "[http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1135932/1/.html Goh Chok Tong to receive award from Japanese emperor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023021527/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1135932/1/.html |date=23 October 2012 }}". Channelnews Asia. Retrieved 24 October 2011.</ref>
* [[Matome Ugaki]], ca. 1945.
* [[Cesar Virata]], 2016
* [[Võ Hồng Phúc]], 2012<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dangcongsan.vn/doi-ngoai/nhat-ban-trao-tang-huan-chuong-mat-troi-moc-cho-nguyen-bo-truong-ke-hoach-va-dau-tu-vo-hong-phuc-156221.html|title=Japan awards Order of the Rising Sun to Minister Vo Hong Phuc|date=8 November 2012|access-date=2016-07-24|archive-date=4 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304003016/http://dangcongsan.vn/doi-ngoai/nhat-ban-trao-tang-huan-chuong-mat-troi-moc-cho-nguyen-bo-truong-ke-hoach-va-dau-tu-vo-hong-phuc-156221.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Wan Waithayakon]]
* [[Wang Jin-pyng]] (1957–), 2021<ref name=focustaiwan>{{cite web|last=Kao|first=Evelyn|url=https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202111030001 |title=Taiwan's ex-Legislative speaker conferred with Japan honor |publisher=Focus Taiwan |date=2021-11-03}}</ref>
* [[John Whitehead (diplomat)|Sir John Whitehead GCMG CVO]] (1932–2013), 2006<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/japanUK/decoration/060508_whitehead.html |title=The Japanese Government honours Sir John Whitehead |publisher=Embassy of Japan in the UK |date=2006-05-01 |access-date=2016-10-04 |archive-date=9 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609034656/http://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/japanUK/decoration/060508_whitehead.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Gough Whitlam]], 2006<ref name="emb-japan1"/>
* [[Yi Kang]], 1912
* [[Yusuf Abdul Rahim]], 1985<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-04-13 |title=Bruneian who survived Hiroshima bombing dies |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/04/13/national/bruneian-survived-hiroshima-bombing-dies/ |access-date=2023-12-26 |website=The Japan Times |language=en}}</ref>
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* [[Ricardo Cabrisas]], 2025<ref>{{cite news |title=High Japanese distinction awarded to Cuban vice prime minister |url=https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/02/22/high-japanese-distinction-awarded-to-cuban-vice-prime-minister/ |work=Prensa Latina |date=22 February 2025 |access-date=20 September 2025 |language=English}}</ref>

=== 2nd Class, Gold and Silver Star ===

[[File:JPN Kyokujitsu-sho 2Class BAR.svg|85px|ribbon bar]]

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* [[Mohammad Hossein Adeli]] (1953–), 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ir.emb-japan.go.jp/fa/release/Conferment%20of%20the%20order%20of%20honor%20to%20Dr.%20Adeli%20(English)(OK).pdf|title=Conferment of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star upon Dr. Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli|date=2014-04-29|access-date=2015-11-30|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304034926/http://www.ir.emb-japan.go.jp/fa/release/Conferment%20of%20the%20order%20of%20honor%20to%20Dr.%20Adeli%20(English)(OK).pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Salem Ben Nasser Al-Ismaily]], 2017<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oman.emb-japan.go.jp/press_release/7-000-004.htm#a4|title=Embassy of Japan in the Sultanate of Oman|website=www.oman.emb-japan.go.jp|access-date=2020-04-23|archive-date=1 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201233620/https://www.oman.emb-japan.go.jp/press_release/7-000-004.htm#a4|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Momofuku Ando]] (1910–2007), 2002<ref name="nndb1">NNDB: [http://www.nndb.com/honors/288/000130895/ Order of the Rising Sun] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110626122755/http://nndb.com/honors/288/000130895/ |date=26 June 2011 }}</ref>
* [[Jaime Zobel de Ayala|Jaime Zóbel de Ayala]] (1934–), 2018<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abs-cbn.com/business/05/02/18/japanese-govt-honors-jaime-zobel-de-ayala|title=Japanese gov't honors Jaime Zobel de Ayala|work=ABS-CBN News|date=2 May 2018|access-date=4 May 2018|archive-date=3 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503231951/http://news.abs-cbn.com/business/05/02/18/japanese-govt-honors-jaime-zobel-de-ayala|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Zeti Akhtar Aziz]] (1947–), 2017<ref>{{cite web|title=Celebration of Tan Sri Dr. Zeti Akhtar Aziz's award of The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star|url=https://www.my.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/newinfo_27042018B.html|date=27 April 2018|access-date=5 March 2021|website=Embassy of Japan in Malaysia|archive-date=24 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124180007/https://www.my.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/newinfo_27042018B.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Hamengkubuwana X|Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwano X]] (1946–), 2022<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.liputan6.com/global/read/4997975/sultan-hamengkubuwono-x-raih-the-order-of-the-rising-sun-gold-and-silver-star-dari-jepang |title=Sultan Hamengkubuwono X Raih The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star dari Jepang |website=liputan6.com |date=2022-06-29 |access-date=9 July 2022 |archive-date=9 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709175358/https://www.liputan6.com/global/read/4997975/sultan-hamengkubuwono-x-raih-the-order-of-the-rising-sun-gold-and-silver-star-dari-jepang |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Arden L. Bement, Jr.]] (1932–), 2009<ref name=2009Spring /><ref name="Japan Today"/>
* [[Jagdish Bhagwati]] (1934–), 2006<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~jb38/bio.html|title=Professor Jagdish N. Bhagwati|publisher=Columbia University|date=6 July 2010|access-date=5 November 2011|archive-date=5 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105144305/http://www.columbia.edu/~jb38/bio.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Henryka Bochniarz]] (1947–), 2010<ref>[http://www.bochniarz.pl/pl/dzialalnosc-inne Działalność: inne] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121120024935/http://www.bochniarz.pl/pl/dzialalnosc-inne |date=20 November 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Louis Bols]] (1867–1930), 1921<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
* [[Gustave Emile Boissonade]] (1825–1910), 1876<ref name=thestar.com>{{cite news|last=Woods|first=Allan|title=Ex-Liberal MP gets his day in the sun|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1012644--ex-liberal-mp-gets-his-day-in-the-sun|work=The Star|access-date=12 October 2011|location=Toronto|date=21 June 2011|archive-date=26 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026144032/http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1012644--ex-liberal-mp-gets-his-day-in-the-sun|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Donald Prentice Booth]] (1902–1993), 1961<ref>''Official US Army Register'', published by US Army Adjutant General, 1962, page 53.</ref><ref>"2,500 Bid Farewell to Booth", ''Pacific Stars and Stripes'', 9 February 1961.</ref>
* [[Georges Hilaire Bousquet]] (1846–1937), 1898<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.meiji.ac.jp/koho/desukara/sanpomichi/2010/107-fd.html|title=Meiji University|publisher=Meiji|access-date=5 November 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927161839/http://www.meiji.ac.jp/koho/desukara/sanpomichi/2010/107-fd.html|archive-date=27 September 2011}}</ref>
* [[Jules Brunet]] (1838–1911)
*[[Rash Behari Bose]] (1886–1945)
* [[Horace Capron]] (1804–1885), 1884<ref name="laurel">{{cite web|url=http://www.laurelhistory.org/exhibits/capron/caproninto.htm |title=Horace Capron at 200: A Laurel Founder's Life |author=The Laurel Historical Society |pages=1279–1291 |access-date=25 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061112000116/http://www.laurelhistory.org/exhibits/capron/caproninto.htm |archive-date=12 November 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Chang Yung-fa]] (1927–2016), 2012<ref name="CNA">{{cite web|url=http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201204290016|title=Taiwanese entrepreneurs to be decorated in Japan|date=29 April 2012|publisher=[[Central News Agency (Republic of China)|The Central News Agency]]|access-date=1 May 2012|archive-date=4 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204113455/https://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201204290016|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Martha Layne Collins]] (1936–2025), 2009<ref>{{Cite web |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan  |date=3 November 2009 |title=2009 Autumn Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/ICSFiles/afieldfile/2009/11/04/2009_Autumn_Conferment_of_Decorations_on_Foreign_Nationals.pdf |access-date=3 November 2025}}</ref>
* [[Rita R. Colwell]] (1934–), 2005<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-biol/02_pastrecipients_awardee2017.html|title=International Prize for biology – Japan Society for the Promotion of Science|website=www.jsps.go.jp|access-date=21 March 2018|archive-date=15 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115082705/http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-biol/02_pastrecipients_awardee2017.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[William Douglas Crowder]], 2008<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=85|title=William Douglas Crowder|publisher=The US Navy|access-date=5 November 2011|archive-date=9 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109141640/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=85|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Gerald Curtis]], 2005<ref>[http://www.newsweek.com/id/56078/page/4 "Periscope,"] ''Newsweek.'' 20 December 2004.</ref>
* [[Marzuki Darusman]], 2017<ref name = SMH-Kirby&Darusman /><ref name = ORS-Kirby&Darusman>{{cite journal|title = 2017 Spring Imperial Decorations: the Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG|url = https://www.sydney.au.emb-japan.go.jp/document/english/japan_reports/JR52-1/JReports%20Vol%2052-1%20p.2.pdf|volume = 52|issue = 1|date = July 2017|page = 2|journal = The Consulate-General of Japan in Sydney's Quarterly Newsletter|first = Michael|last = Kirby|author-link = Michael Kirby (judge)|access-date = 12 February 2019|archive-date = 5 June 2023|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230605164546/https://www.sydney.au.emb-japan.go.jp/document/english/japan_reports/JR52-1/JReports%20Vol%2052-1%20p.2.pdf|url-status = live}}</ref>
* [[Joseph Dimsdale|Sir Joseph Dimsdale]] (1849–1902), 1902<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Prince Komatsu at the Mansion House |date=24 June 1902 |page=8 |issue=36802}}</ref>
* [[Kiin Donarudo]], 1993<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Donald Keene|url=http://www.keenecenter.org/content/view/13/30/|work=The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University|publisher=Columbia University|access-date=12 October 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004195845/http://www.keenecenter.org/content/view/13/30/|archive-date=4 October 2011}}</ref>
*[[Jonathan M. Dorfan]] (1947–), 2017<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2017/11/2/dr-jonathan-dorfan-awarded-japan%27s-order-rising-sun |title=Dr. Jonathan Dorfan Awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun |publisher=News Center, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology |access-date=2022-04-23 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[Hugh Elles]] (1880–1945)<ref>Tank Museum: [http://www.tankmuseum.org/ixbin/indexplus?%24+mref+48636=.&_IXACTION_=query&_IXSESSION_=UDU3fvcFzpE&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXSPFX_=templates/full/c3/medalrecip/t&_IXMENU_=medals Medal Recipients – Order of the Rising Sun, Second Class; Japan: "Elles, Sir Hugh Jamieson."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603071917/http://www.tankmuseum.org/ixbin/indexplus?%24+mref+48636=.&_IXACTION_=query&_IXSESSION_=UDU3fvcFzpE&_IXMAXHITS_=1&_IXSPFX_=templates%2Ffull%2Fc3%2Fmedalrecip%2Ft&_IXMENU_=medals |date=3 June 2013 }}</ref>
* [[José Manuel Entrecanales]], 2018<ref>Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun 2018 [https://www.acciona.com/news/jose-manuel-entrecanales-receives-japans-order-rising-sun/  "José Manuel Entrecanales receives Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705175410/https://www.acciona.com/news/jose-manuel-entrecanales-receives-japans-order-rising-sun/ |date=5 July 2018 }}</ref>
* [[Predrag Filipov]], 2019<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tanjug.rs/full-view.aspx?izb=482168|title=Tanjug|accessdate=9 July 2023|archive-date=20 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820162147/https://www.tanjug.rs/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Bill Frenzel]], 2000<ref name="nndb1"/><ref name=2000Autumn>{{cite web | url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/announce/2000/11/1103.html | title=2000 Autumn Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals | publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan | access-date=4 March 2012 | archive-date=20 April 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420201825/http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/announce/2000/11/1103.html | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Kuntoro Mangkusubroto]] (1947–), 2023<ref>{{Cite web|title=JPNN|url=http://www.jpnn.com/news/2-tokoh-nasional-dapat-penghargaan-dubes-heri-akhmadi-bukti-kepercayaan-dari-jepang|website=www.jpnn.com|language=id|access-date=2023-05-15|archive-date=22 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522012518/https://www.jpnn.com/news/2-tokoh-nasional-dapat-penghargaan-dubes-heri-akhmadi-bukti-kepercayaan-dari-jepang|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Thamir Ghadhban]] (1945–), 2016<ref name="iraq.emb-japan.go.jp"/>
* [[Thomas Blake Glover]] (1838–1911), 1908<ref>Honor awarded 1908: [http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/earns/tales.html ''Crossroads: A Journal of Nagasaki History and Culture''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709192249/http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/earns/tales.html |date=9 July 2022 }}</ref>
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* [[William Reginald Hall]] (1870–1943)<ref name="gazette30363"/>
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* [[Ho Mei-yueh]] (1951– ), 2021<ref name=focustaiwan/>
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* [[Onkar Kanwar|Onkar Singh Kanwar]] (1942–), 2018
* [[Donald Keene]] (1922–2019), 1973
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* [[Saisho Atsushi]], 1887
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* [[Jacob Schiff]] (1847–1920), 1907<ref>Honor awarded 1907: Adler, Cyrus (1921). [https://books.google.com/books?id=1Z_jY30B2jIC p. 14] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820162143/https://books.google.com/books?id=1Z_jY30B2jIC |date=20 August 2024 }}; Sakamoto, Pamela Rotner. (1998). ''Japanese Diplomats and Jewish Refugees,'' p. 17.</ref>
* [[William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill|William Francis Sempill]] (1893–1965)<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/01/03/npspy03.xml Day, Peter. "British aviation pioneer was a spy for Japan,"] {{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} ''Telegraph'' (London). 1 February 2002.</ref><ref>Phillips, Pearson. ''The Highland peer who prepared Japan for war'' [[The Sunday Telegraph]], 6 January 2002</ref>
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* [[E. Sreedharan]] (1932–), 2013<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/metro-man-e-sreedharan-felicitated/article5763527.ece|title=The Hindu|publisher=Kasturi & Sons|access-date=8 March 2014|date=8 March 2014|archive-date=10 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310123837/http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/metro-man-e-sreedharan-felicitated/article5763527.ece|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Wendell M. Stanley]] (1904–1971), 1966<ref>{{cite web|url=http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf3p3003vc&chunk.id=bioghist-1.3.4&brand=lo|title=Guide to the Wendell M. Stanley papers, 1926–1972|publisher=CDLib|access-date=5 November 2011|archive-date=9 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109141640/http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf3p3003vc&chunk.id=bioghist-1.3.4&brand=lo|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Michael Ira Sovern]] 2003<ref>Honor awarded 2003: Consulate-General of Japan in New York: [http://www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp/en/c/vol_11-4/title_04.html "Government Of Japan to Honor Professor Michael Ira Sovereign"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204004428/http://www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp/en/c/vol_11-4/title_04.html |date=4 December 2010 }}</ref>
* [[Sayidiman Suryohadiprojo]] (1927–2021), 2012<ref>[http://www.id.emb-japan.go.jp/news12_08.html#1 Embassy of Japan in Indonesia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430041525/https://www.id.emb-japan.go.jp/news12_08.html#1 |date=30 April 2023 }}  (Kedutaan Besar Jepang di Indonesia) {{lang|ja|在インドネシア日本国大使館}} (Embassy of Japan in Indonesia)</ref>
* [[Washington SyCip]], 2017<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ph.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/00_000314.html|title=Japan confers decoration on SGV founder Washington Z. SyCip, Japan Information and Culture Center (JICC) |work= Embassy of Japan in the Philippines|date=2 May 2017|access-date=4 May 2018}}</ref>
* [[Henry W. Taft]] (1859–1945), 1929<ref name="nyt1929">Honor awarded 1929: [https://www.nytimes.com/1929/06/28/archives/japanese-emperor-honors-hw-taft-consulgeneral-gives-insignia-for.html?sq=Order+of+Meiji&scp=1&st=p  "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,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005065135/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50811FC3A54167A93CAAB178DD85F4D8285F9&scp=1&sq=Order+of+Meiji&st=p |date=5 October 2012 }} ''New York Times,'' 28 June 1929.</ref>
* [[Frederick Charles Tudor Tudor]] (1863–1946)<ref name="gazette30363"/>
* [[Charles Vaughan-Lee]] (1867–1928)<ref name="gazette30363"/>
* [[John Waldron (police officer)|John Waldron]] (1909–1975) 1971<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_08_2010/post-6750-128250808147.jpg|title=Patent of Decoration|date=August 2010|access-date=5 November 2011|archive-date=9 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109141640/http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_08_2010/post-6750-128250808147.jpg|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Bryon Wilfert]] (1952–), 2011<ref name=Canada2011Embassy>{{cite web|url=http://www.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/canada_e/Japan/media_advisory_jun1711.html|title=Media Advisory: Government of Japan to Bestow Honour on Three Canadians|publisher=Japanese Embassy|date=17 June 2011|access-date=5 November 2011}}</ref>
* [[Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker]] (1941–), 2009<ref name=2009Spring>{{cite web | url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/ICSFiles/afieldfile/2009/05/08/2009_Spring_Conferment_of_Decorations_on_Foreign_Nationals.pdf | title=2009 Spring Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals | publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan | access-date=4 March 2012 | archive-date=7 August 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807052319/http://www.mofa.go.jp/ICSFiles/afieldfile/2009/05/08/2009_Spring_Conferment_of_Decorations_on_Foreign_Nationals.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Richard J. Wood]], 2010<ref>Honor awarded 2010 [http://www.earlham.edu/about/campus-history/presidential-gallery/richard-j-wood/  "Richard J. Wood – About | Earlham College"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123133201/http://www.earlham.edu/about/campus-history/presidential-gallery/richard-j-wood/ |date=23 November 2016 }}</ref>
* [[Kenkichi Yabashi]] (1869–1927), 1927<ref>[http://layla.webcrow.jp/yabashi-02.html Senior Third Rank / Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, Second Class / Kenkichi Yabashi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104093718/http://layla.webcrow.jp/yabashi-02.html |date=4 November 2020 }}{{in lang|ja}}</ref>
* [[Philip Yeo]] (1946–), 2007<ref>Honor awarded 2007: Embassy of Japan in Singapore: [http://www.sg.emb-japan.go.jp/events_PYEO_03-11-07.htm  "Conferment Ceremony for Mr. Philip Yeo, Chairman of SPRING Singapore."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226205715/http://www.sg.emb-japan.go.jp/events_PYEO_03-11-07.htm |date=26 February 2009 }}</ref>
* [[Lim Jock Seng]], 2013<ref name=2013Spring>{{Cite web |date=2013-11-06 |title=Pehin Dato Lim Jock Seng and Dato Paduka Hamdillah Receive Japanese Decorations |url=https://www.bn.emb-japan.go.jp/pdf/pr20131106.pdf |access-date=2023-12-26 |website=Embassy of Japan in Brunei}}</ref>
* [[Hamdillah Abdul Wahab]], 2013<ref name="2013Spring" />
* [[Nor Jeludin]], 2020<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-11-24 |title=Conferment Ceremony of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star upon Yang Mulia Dato Paduka Haji Mohd Nor bin Haji Jeludin, Permanent Secretary and Chief of Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brunei Darussalam |url=https://www.bn.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/20201124.html |access-date=2023-12-25 |website=Embassy of Japan in Brunei Darussalam}}</ref>
* [[Badr bin Saud al Busaidi]], 2021<ref>{{cite web |title=The Conferment Ceremony for H.E. Sayyid Badr bin Saud bin Hareb Al Busaidi, former Minister Responsible for Defence Affairs. |url=https://www.oman.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_ja/_20220329.html |website=Embassy of Japan in the Sultanate of Oman |access-date=17 April 2024 |date=29 March 2022 |archive-date=16 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416204531/https://www.oman.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_ja/_20220329.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Lim Jock Hoi]], 2024<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-29 |title=2024 Spring Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals |url=https://www.bn.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/deco24.html |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=www.bn.emb-japan.go.jp |archive-date=29 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429063104/https://www.bn.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/deco24.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-29 |title=Two Bruneians receive Japanese decorations |url=https://borneobulletin.com.bn/two-bruneians-receive-japanese-decorations/ |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=borneobulletin.com.bn |language=en-US |archive-date=20 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820162823/https://borneobulletin.com.bn/two-bruneians-receive-japanese-decorations/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 
* Maj. Gen. [[Aung San]], May 1943<ref name="dsmuseum">{{Cite web |title=ဗိုလ်ချုပ် အောင်ဆန်း (၁၉၁၅ - ၁၉၄၇ ခုနှစ်) |trans-title=Maj. Gen. Aung San (1915 - 1947) |url=https://dsmuseum.gov.mm/military-history-museum-and-army-archives/#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dpopup%3Aopen%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6IjQyNTEiLCJ0b2dnbGUiOmZhbHNlfQ%3D%3D |access-date=16 August 2025 |website=Myanmar Defence Services Museum |language=my}}</ref>
* [[Abang Johari|Abang Abdul Rahman Zohari bin Abang Openg]], 2025<ref>https://www.thevibes.com/articles/news/114965/japan-honours-sarawak-premier-with-prestigious-order-of-the-rising-sun</ref>
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=== 3rd Class, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon ===
[[File:JPN Kyokujitsu-sho 3Class BAR.svg|85px|ribbon bar]]

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* [[Craig Agena]] (1960–), 2014<ref name="Order list">{{cite web|title=List of Order Recipients|publisher=Ministry Foreign Affairs Japan |url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/info/conferment/pdfs/2014_sp.pdf|access-date=13 August 2017}}</ref>
* [[John F. Aiso]] (1909–1987), 1985<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.javadc.org/Hall%20of%20Famers.htm|title=Military Intelligence Hall of Fame|access-date=2020-02-29|website=Japanese American Veterans Association|archive-date=20 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820162811/http://www.javadc.org/Hall%20of%20Famers.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Giorgio Amitrano]] (1957–), 2020 (ceremony held in 2022)<ref>{{cite web|title=Ambasciata: ai prof. Amitrano e Oue riconoscimenti dal Giappone|url=https://www.giornalediplomatico.it/ambasciata-ai-prof-amitrano-e-oue-riconoscimenti-dal-giappone.htm|work=Giornale Diplomatico|date=2022-06-03|access-date=2022-06-06|language=it|archive-date=8 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208172421/https://www.giornalediplomatico.it/ambasciata-ai-prof-amitrano-e-oue-riconoscimenti-dal-giappone.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[William Sturgis Bigelow]] (1850–1926), 1909<ref>{{cite web |title=Focus on: Order of the Rising Sun |url=https://www.masshist.org/objects/cabinet/may2002/may2002.htm |website=Massachusetts Historical Society |access-date=4 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525202330/https://www.masshist.org/objects/cabinet/may2002/may2002.htm |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Edmund Blunden]] (1896–1974), 1963
* [[Richard Bowring]] (1947–), 2013<ref name="2013 Spring">{{cite web|title =2013 Spring Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals| publisher=Embassy of Japan in the UK|url =http://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/japanUK/decoration/1304.html|access-date=24 May 2013}}</ref>
* [[Ben Nighthorse Campbell]] (1933–), 2011<ref name="2011Spring">{{cite web|title =2011 Spring Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals |work=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/announce/2011/6/PDF/110618_01_01.pdf|access-date =19 September 2011}}</ref>
* [[Kent E. Calder]], 2014<ref>{{cite web|title=Conferral of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, upon Professor Kent Eyring Calder, Director of Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University|url=http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/english/html/pressreleases/2014/order-of-the-rising-sun-calder.html|publisher=Embassy of Japan in the United States|access-date=3 November 2015|archive-date=24 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224182552/http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/english/html/pressreleases/2014/order-of-the-rising-sun-calder.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Ion Caramitru]], 2017<ref>{{cite web|date=2017-12-13|title=Ion Caramitru decorated by the Japanese Ambassador with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Ribbon|url=https://www.nineoclock.ro/2017/12/13/ion-caramitru-decorated-by-the-japanese-ambassador-with-the-order-of-the-rising-sun-gold-rays-with-ribbon/|access-date=2021-09-06|website=Nine O' Clock|language=en-US|archive-date=6 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906080113/https://www.nineoclock.ro/2017/12/13/ion-caramitru-decorated-by-the-japanese-ambassador-with-the-order-of-the-rising-sun-gold-rays-with-ribbon/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Kirsti Koch Christensen]], 2006<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uib.no/en/arts/78080/svein-bolling-kirsti-koch-christensen-2005|title=Vaage, Nora Sørensen. Svein Bolling: Kirsti Koch Christensen, 2005.|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109141640/http://www.uib.no/en/arts/78080/svein-bolling-kirsti-koch-christensen-2005|archive-date=9 January 2016}}</ref>
* [[Albert Diamond Cohen]], 2011<ref name=Canada2011Embassy />
* [[Edwin Cranston]], 2009<ref name=2009Spring/><ref>Harvard Gazette: [http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/05/japanese-government-honors-professor-edwin-a-cranston/  Japanese government honors Professor Edwin A. Cranston] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723180709/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/05/japanese-government-honors-professor-edwin-a-cranston/ |date=23 July 2011 }}. 14 May 2009.</ref>
* [[Rust Macpherson Deming]], 2013<ref>{{cite web|title= Conferral of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon upon Ambassador Rust Macpherson Deming Adjunct Professor of Japan Studies at Johns Hopkins University |url=http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/english/html/pressreleases/2013/order-of-the-rising-sun-2013-deming.html|publisher=Embassy of Japan in the United States|access-date=3 November 2015}}</ref>
* [[Rudy Demotte]], 2016
* [[Ronald P. Dore]]<ref name="WhosWhoRD">{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=International Who's Who (2004) |publisher=Routledge |page=[https://archive.org/details/internationalwho2004ond/page/447 447] |date=2003 |isbn=978-1857432176 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/internationalwho2004ond/page/447 }}</ref>
* [[Peter Drysdale]], 2001<ref>Peter Dysdale bio notes: [http://www.i-house.or.jp/en/ProgramActivities/academy/pastprograms.htm 4th I-House Academy: "Japan and China: Toward Asia- Pacific Cooperation,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124082213/http://i-house.or.jp/en/ProgramActivities/academy/pastprograms.htm |date=24 November 2010 }} International House of Japan. 22 May 2007.</ref>
* [[Clint Eastwood]], 2009<ref name=2009Spring /><ref>[http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/govt-honors-wbc-team-actors-scientists-in-spring-decorations "Japan honors Clint Eastwood in spring decorations,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605135008/http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/govt-honors-wbc-team-actors-scientists-in-spring-decorations |date=5 June 2011 }} ''Japan Today''. 29 April 2008.</ref>
* [[Gustave Eiffel]] (1832–1923)
* [[Elizabeth Esteve-Coll]] (1938–2024), 2005<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/article/tributes-paid-to-former-uea-vice-chancellor |title=Tributes paid to former UEA Vice-Chancellor |publisher=[[University of East Anglia]] |date=18 September 2024 |access-date=11 October 2024 }}</ref>
* [[Jack Fujimoto]], 2011<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.la.us.emb-japan.go.jp/e_web/2011f_jokun.htm|title=Recipients of Fall 2011 Decorations|publisher=Consulate-General of Japan in Los Angeles|access-date=27 November 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426002536/http://www.la.us.emb-japan.go.jp/e_web/2011f_jokun.htm|archive-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>
* [[Tsuneari Fukuda]] (1912–1994), 1986<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kawakubo |first=Tsuyoshi |title=福田恆存: 人間は弱い |trans-title=Tsuneari Fukuda: Man is Weak|date=2012 |publisher=Minerva Shobō |isbn=978-4-623-06388-8 |language=ja|p=267}}</ref>
* [[Robert Garfias]], 2005<ref>[http://www.actaonline.org/archives/whats_new/2005/May_2005.htm  "California Ethnomusicologist Dr. Robert Garfias to Receive Japan's Order of the Rising Sun Award,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081118012552/http://www.actaonline.org/archives/whats_new/2005/May_2005.htm |date=18 November 2008 }} Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) Archives.</ref>
* [[Carol Gluck]], 2006<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/reed_newsletter/The%20Reed,%20Spring%202007.pdf Weatherhead East Asian Institute, ''The Reed''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081030044906/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/reed_newsletter/The%20Reed,%20Spring%202007.pdf |date=30 October 2008 }}; [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/06/10/gluck.html  "Carol Gluck Receives Top Honors from the Japanese Government,"] ''Columbia News,'' 6 October 2006.</ref>
* [[William Elliot Griffis]] (1843–1928), 1926<ref name="amweg1">Honor awarded in 1926: [http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/digital_guides/japan_through_western_eyes/chronology.aspx Adam Mathew web.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204175203/http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/digital_guides/japan_through_western_eyes/chronology.aspx |date=4 December 2008 }}</ref>
* [[Mahdi Elmandjra]], 1986<ref>[[Mahdi Elmandjra#Awards and decorations]]</ref>{{Circular reference|date=May 2017}}
* [[Moto Hagio]], 2022<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-11-11/manga-creator-moto-hagio-inducted-into-order-of-the-rising-sun/.191807|title=Manga Creator Moto Hagio Inducted Into Order of the Rising Sun|website=[[Anime News Network]]|date=11 November 2022|access-date=11 November 2022|archive-date=11 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221111162208/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-11-11/manga-creator-moto-hagio-inducted-into-order-of-the-rising-sun/.191807|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Percival Hall-Thompson]] (1874–1950)<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=31811|date=5 March 1920|page=2865|supp=y}}</ref>
* [[Jochem P. Hanse]], 2007<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nl.emb-japan.go.jp/e/relation/hanse.html |title=former Commissioner of the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency and Advisor to the SieboldHuis|publisher=Embassy|access-date=5 November 2011}}</ref>
* [[Helen Hardacre]], 2018<ref>{{cite web | url=https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/hardacre-award | title=Order of the Rising Sun Awarded to Professor Helen Hardacre | date=16 May 2018 | access-date=20 March 2021 | archive-date=2 April 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210402033641/https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/hardacre-award | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[James Curtis Hepburn]] (1815–1911)<ref>{{cite news|title=Japanese Order for Missionary|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/03/15/101411015.pdf|work=The New York Times|page=13|date=15 March 1905|access-date=25 July 2009|archive-date=16 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616021926/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/03/15/101411015.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Judit Hidasi]], 2005<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.mjgk.com/1/archivalt-hireink/78-archivum/78-7-hir |title= Hidasi Judit nyelvész, kommunikációs professzor kitüntetése |access-date= 2016-07-11 |date= 2005-11-09 |publisher= Magyar-Japán Gazdasági Klub |language= hu |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160629172816/http://www.mjgk.com/1/archivalt-hireink/78-archivum/78-7-hir |archive-date= 29 June 2016 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
* [[Yanosuke Hirai]] (1902–1986), 1972
* [[Irene Hirano]] (1948–2020), 2020<ref>{{citation|newspaper=Rafu Shimpo|url=https://rafu.com/2021/10/decoration-conferment-ceremony-held-for-irene-hirano-inouye/|title=Decoration Conferment Ceremony Held for Irene Hirano Inouye|date=October 16, 2021|access-date=5 December 2021|archive-date=5 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205193935/https://rafu.com/2021/10/decoration-conferment-ceremony-held-for-irene-hirano-inouye/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[John Charles Hoad]] (1856–1911), 1906<ref>Honor awarded 1906: Perry, Warren. (1983). [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hoad-sir-john-charles-6686  "Hoad, Sir John Charles (1856–1911)" in ''Australian Dictionary of Biography,'']  Volume 9.</ref>
* [[Jiro Horikoshi]] (1903–1982), 1973<ref>1973, 3rd order of merit in Japanese honors system (Kunsantō), 1982 4th rank, court honor (jushii, posthumous)</ref>
* [[Bill Hosokawa]] (1915–2007), 1987<ref>{{citation|last=Chuang|first=Tamara|newspaper=[[The Denver Post]]|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2017/01/24/coloradan-japan-award-order-of-the-rising-sun/|title=When an emperor is grateful: Coloradan awarded The Order of the Rising Sun|date=January 24, 2017|access-date=5 December 2021|archive-date=29 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029064125/https://www.denverpost.com/2017/01/24/coloradan-japan-award-order-of-the-rising-sun/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[John Howes]], (1924–2017), 2003<ref>UBC Reports [http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2003/03dec04/03dec04kudos.html/ UBC Professor Emeritus Awarded Order of the Rising Sun of Japan] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207020758/http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2003/03dec04/03dec04kudos.html/ |date=7 February 2011 }}. 4 December 2003.</ref>
* [[Robert Huey]], 2019<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2019/07/10/japan-grants-high-honor-to-uh-professor-huey/ | title=Japan grants high honor to UH professor | date=10 July 2019 | access-date=11 July 2019 | archive-date=10 June 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610203249/https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2019/07/10/japan-grants-high-honor-to-uh-professor-huey/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Keiichi Ishizaka]] (1945–2016), 2015<ref name="RIAJ">{{cite web|title=Former RIAJ chairman Ishizaka Keiichi gets Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon medal|publisher=[[Recording Industry Association of Japan]]|url=https://www.riaj.or.jp/news/id=152|access-date=5 December 2015|archive-date=8 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208145324/https://www.riaj.or.jp/news/id=152|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Muhammad Nurul Islam]] (1943–), 2012
* [[Jean-François Jarrige]] (1940–2014)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Thiébaud |first1=Jean-Marie |title=L'Ordre du Soleil levant (Japon):Titulaires français et étrangers |url=https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/auteurs/article_pop.asp?no=8247&no_artiste=5768 |website=www.editions-harmattan.fr |access-date=8 March 2021 |archive-date=20 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820163306/https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/auteurs/article_pop.asp?no=8247&no_artiste=5768 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Kano Jigoro|Kanō Jigorō]] (1860–1938)<ref>NNDB: [http://www.nndb.com/honors/288/000130895/ Order of the Rising Sun] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110626122755/http://nndb.com/honors/288/000130895/ |date=26 June 2011 }}; Kosho Kempo, [http://www.koshokempo.com/kano.html Kano Jigoro] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713182648/http://www.koshokempo.com/kano.html |date=13 July 2011 }}</ref>
* [[Peter Jost]] (1921–2016), 2011<ref>{{cite web |title=The Awards and Medals of H. Peter Jost – A New Acquisition! |url=https://ietarchivesblog.org/2018/04/10/the-awards-and-medals-of-h-peter-jost-a-new-acquisition/ |website=ietarchivesblog.org/ |date=10 April 2018 |access-date=6 January 2022 |archive-date=20 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820163306/https://ietarchivesblog.org/2018/04/10/the-awards-and-medals-of-h-peter-jost-a-new-acquisition/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Otto Hermann Kahn]] (1867–1934)<ref>Mortimer H. Schiff and Otto H. Kahn of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., New York, are among the American hankers who have been awarded decorations by the Emperor of Japan. Mr. Schiff was awarded the second class order of the Sacred Treasure and Mr. Kahn, Third Class Order of the Rising Sunhttps://www.jta.org/1927/10/09/archive/schiff-and-kahn-honored-by-japanese-government {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026213556/https://www.jta.org/1927/10/09/archive/schiff-and-kahn-honored-by-japanese-government |date=26 October 2017 }} (retrieved 26 October 2017)</ref>
* [[Kusuma Karunaratne]] (1940–)<ref>Perera, Suharshi. [http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/08/09/fea12.asp "Woman: An icon in the literary world,"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604141640/http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/08/09/fea12.asp |date=4 June 2011 }} ''Daily News'' (Sri Lanka). 9 August 2007.</ref>
* [[Harue Kitamura]], 2004<ref>{{cite web|url= https://alumni.ritsumei.jp/kouyuukai_news/post_895/|title= Alumni Association NEWS : Our alumni as the awardee of Spring, 2004 has been announced!! &mdash; Harue Kitamura, decorated (class of '52)|date= 30 April 2004|website= ritsumei.ac.jp|publisher= Ritsumeikan University|access-date= 3 May 2019|archive-date= 3 May 2019|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190503190854/https://alumni.ritsumei.jp/kouyuukai_news/post_895/|url-status= live}}</ref>
* [[Peter Kornicki]] (1950–), 2018<ref name="2018 Peter Kornicki">{{cite web|title =Japanese Government honours Professor Peter F. Kornicki| publisher=Embassy of Japan in the UK|url =https://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/180306decoration.html|access-date=5 Feb 2025}}</ref>
* [[Military Intelligence Service (United States)#List of MIS members|George Koshi]] c. 1960<ref name=MIS_Honors>{{cite web|url=https://www.njahs.org/misnorcal/honors.htm|title=MIS Honors & Awards|access-date=2020-02-29|website=National Japanese American Historical Society|publisher=MIS Association of Northern California|archive-date=8 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208212924/https://www.njahs.org/misnorcal/honors.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[George Trumbull Ladd]] (1842–1921)<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1899/10/22/117932119.pdf "American Honored by the Japanese,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820163310/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1899/10/22/117932119.pdf |date=20 August 2024 }} ''The New York Times.'' 22 October 1899.</ref>
* [[Miles Wedderburn Lampson]] (1880–1964)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122001510/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,846994,00.html "Pax Britannica (3rd Class)"], ''Time'', 16 May 1932.</ref>
* [[Yves Leterme]], 2016
* [[Norman Macrae]] (1923–2010), 1988<ref>{{cite news|title=Norman Macrae|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/7847594/Norman-Macrae.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/7847594/Norman-Macrae.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=The Telegraph|access-date=12 October 2011|location=London|date=22 January 2010}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[Paul Magnette]], 2016
* [[William P. Malm]], 2020
* [[Mike Masaoka]], 1968<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv25720#ID2QJXTEBG1JFZONZ0VVVAXYEGOPHK0ZS3BN2PV0EL2GQQ1SHOHIPM|title=Mike M. Masaoka papers, 1931–1991|access-date=2020-02-29|website=Archives West|location=University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections|date=2019|archive-date=9 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109071709/http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv25720#ID2QJXTEBG1JFZONZ0VVVAXYEGOPHK0ZS3BN2PV0EL2GQQ1SHOHIPM|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Kyuzo Mifune]] (1883–1965), 1964<ref>{{cite book |last1=George |first1=Stuart |title=A Supplementary Dictionary of Sports Personalities |chapter-url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191752186.001.0001/acref-9780191752186-e-176 |website=Oxford Reference |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=15 October 2018 |date=2014 |isbn=9780191752186 |chapter=Mifune, Kyuzo |archive-date=20 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820163328/https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191752186.001.0001/acref-9780191752186-e-176 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[John Milne]] (1850–1913)<ref>L.K. Herbert-Gustar and P.A. Nott published a biography of Milne ''John Milne, Father of Modern Seismology'' in 1980 p. 120 {{ISBN|0-904404-34-X}}</ref><ref>Paul Kabrna "''John Milne – the Man who Mapped the Shaking Earth''" {{ISBN|978-0-9555289-0-3}} Published by Craven & Pendle Geological Society in March 2007.pp68</ref>
* [[Earl Miner]] (1926–2004)<ref>Quiñones, Eric. [http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/04/0503/2a.shtml "Earl Miner, Specialist in English and Japanese Literature, dies at age 77"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820163320/https://pr.princeton.edu/pwb/04/0503/2a.shtml |date=20 August 2024 }} '' Princetonian Weekly Bulletin.'' 5 May 2004; Europa Publications. (2003). [https://books.google.com/books?id=phhhHT64kIMC&pg=PA388  ''International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004,'' p. 388.]</ref>
* [[Edwin McClellan]] (1925–2009), 1998<ref>Honor awarded 1998: [http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=3985  "McClellan Named Sterling Professor of Japanese"], {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100727125216/http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=3985 |date=27 July 2010 }} Yale Office of Public Affairs. 3 February 1999.</ref>
* [[Ian Nish]], 1991<ref>Kenrick, Vivienne. [http://search.japantimes.co.jp/member/member.html?fl20040918vk.htm  "Personality Profile: Ian Nish,"] {{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ''Japan Times''. 18 September 2004.</ref>
* [[Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi]], 2009<ref name=2009Spring /><ref>[http://www.aafny.org/headlines.asp?hid=49 "Government of Japan Honors Dr. Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230641/http://www.aafny.org/headlines.asp?hid=49 |date=3 March 2016 }} Asian American Federation. 2009.</ref>
* [[John O'Conor]], 2011<ref>Embassy of Ireland in Japan: [http://www.irishembassy.jp/home/index.aspx?id=86842 Irish Pianist decorated by the Government of Japan] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130218170811/http://www.irishembassy.jp/home/index.aspx?id=86842 |date=18 February 2013 }}</ref>
* [[Peter O'Malley]], 2015<ref name="2015 Spring LA">{{cite web|title=Recipients of Spring 2015 Decorations|publisher=Consulate-General of Japan in Los Angeles|url=http://www.la.us.emb-japan.go.jp/e_web/jokun_2015s.htm|access-date=9 July 2015|archive-date=13 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713060037/http://www.la.us.emb-japan.go.jp/e_web/jokun_2015s.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Dennis M. Ogawa]], 2016<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2016/05/23/uh-professor-receives-medal-from-emperor-of-japan/|title=UH professor receives medal from Emperor of Japan|date=2016-05-24|work=University of Hawaiʻi System News|access-date=2018-06-08|language=en-US|archive-date=25 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225152131/http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2016/05/23/uh-professor-receives-medal-from-emperor-of-japan/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Taiichi Ohno]], 1982<ref>Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management, Jon Miller (trans.), Gemba Press 2007, p. xii</ref>
* [[Janusz Onyszkiewicz]], 2019<ref name="Conferment of Decoration">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/files/000480063.pdf|title=Conferment of Decoration of Foreign Nationals|accessdate=9 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[Piotr Paleczny]], 2019<ref name="Conferment of Decoration"/>
* [[Henry Spencer Palmer]] (1838–1893), 1887<ref name="WO 25/3913/311">{{citation |title=WO 25/3913/311: Statement of the Services of Henry Spencer Palmer of the Royal Engineers with a Record of such other Particulars as may be useful in case of his Death |publisher=The National Archives, Kew |page=311 |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13332650 |access-date=14 December 2023 |archive-date=20 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820163830/https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13332650 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Higuchi2002">{{cite book |last=Higuchi |first=Jiro |title=The Biography of Major-General Henry Spencer Palmer R.E. F.R.A.S. (1838–1893) |publisher=Jiro Higuchi |location=Tokyo |date=2002 |page=64 |url=http://higuchi-yokohama1954.private.coocan.jp/biography_of_hspalmer.pdf |access-date=14 December 2023 |archive-date=15 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515122837/http://higuchi-yokohama1954.private.coocan.jp/biography_of_hspalmer.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[T.J. Pempel]], 2022<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ieas.berkeley.edu/news/government-japan-honors-professor-tj-pempel|title=The Government of Japan honors Professor T.J. Pempel &#124; Institute of East Asian Studies|website=ieas.berkeley.edu|access-date=9 July 2023|archive-date=9 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709100548/https://ieas.berkeley.edu/news/government-japan-honors-professor-tj-pempel|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Susan Pharr]], 2008<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.boston.us.emb-japan.go.jp/eng/pharr.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229152026/http://www.boston.us.emb-japan.go.jp/eng/pharr.htm|url-status=dead|title=Consulate General of Japan, Boston.|archive-date=29 December 2008}}</ref>
* [[Umberto Pineschi]], 2009<ref name=2009Spring />
* [[Lee Poh Ping]], 2010<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.my.emb-japan.go.jp/English/JIS/exchange/decoration10/210710.htm|title=Embassy of Japan in Malaysia|website=www.my.emb-japan.go.jp|accessdate=9 July 2023|archive-date=22 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022042111/https://www.my.emb-japan.go.jp/English/JIS/exchange/decoration10/210710.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[John Powles]], 2008<ref name=2008Autumn>{{cite web |url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/ICSFiles/afieldfile/2008/11/04/conferment_2008_autumn.pdf |title=2008 Autumn Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |access-date=4 March 2012 |archive-date=25 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125165622/https://www.mofa.go.jp/ICSFiles/afieldfile/2008/11/04/conferment_2008_autumn.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://vancouversun.com/John+Powles+built+important+ties+between+Canada+Japan/2687645/story.html |title=John Powles built important ties between Canada and Japan |access-date=16 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323010802/http://www.vancouversun.com/John+Powles+built+important+ties+between+Canada+Japan/2687645/story.html |archive-date=23 March 2010 |date=24 November 2001 }}</ref>
* [[Kenneth B. Pyle|Pyle, Kenneth B.]] 1999<ref>{{Cite news|date=25 March 1999|title=Japan's emperor honors uw professor for his work|periodical = Seattle Post-Intelligencer|place=Seattle|pages=B2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3mfigIUbao |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/N3mfigIUbao |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|title="Hiroshima and the Historians:" Kenneth B. Pyle gives the Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture|date=3 December 2013 |publisher=Youtube|access-date=24 April 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[John Mark Ramseyer]], 2018<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hls.harvard.edu/today/order-of-the-rising-sun-awarded-to-professor-mark-ramseyer/|title=Order of the Rising Sun awarded to Professor Mark Ramseyer|first=Christine|last=Perkins|website=Harvard Law School|accessdate=9 July 2023|archive-date=9 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709100549/https://hls.harvard.edu/today/order-of-the-rising-sun-awarded-to-professor-mark-ramseyer/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Sadia Rashid]], 2019<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/426475-sadia-rashid-receives-award|title=Sadia Rashid receives award|website=www.thenews.com.pk|accessdate=9 July 2023|archive-date=20 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820163831/https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/426475-sadia-rashid-receives-award|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Dzulkifli Abdul Razak]], 2019<ref>{{cite web|title=The Conferment Ceremony of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon on Professor Emeritus Tan Sri Dato' Dzulkifli Abdul Razak|url=https://www.my.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/newinfo_03102019A.html|access-date=2021-01-20|website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Jacob Raz]], 2006<ref>[http://www.israel.emb-japan.go.jp/EOJPRofiles/RisingSunRaz.htm "The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon" to Professor Jacob Raz] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317183806/http://www.israel.emb-japan.go.jp/EOJPRofiles/RisingSunRaz.htm |date=17 March 2012 }}, Embassy of Japan in Israel website.</ref>
* [[Rustum Roy]], 2002<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rustumroy.com/vita_for_health_groups%202006.htm|title=Rustum Roy, vita for health groups|publisher=Rustum Roy|access-date=5 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930164146/http://www.rustumroy.com/vita_for_health_groups%202006.htm|archive-date=30 September 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[David Rowe-Beddoe, Baron Rowe-Beddoe|David Rowe-Beddoe]], 2008<ref>Embassy of Japan in the U.K.: [http://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/japanUK/decoration/081212rowebeddoe.html Japanese Government honors Lord David Sydney Rowe-Beddoe,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429135846/http://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/japanUK/decoration/081212rowebeddoe.html |date=29 April 2009 }} 18 December 2008.</ref>
* [[David Russell (barrister)|David Russell]], 2010<ref>{{cite journal|journal=STEP Journal|title=David Russell|date=June 2010|volume=18|issue=6|page=6|url=http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1o3qk/STEPJournalJune2010V/resources/index.htm|access-date=1 April 2013|archive-date=31 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100831181559/http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1o3qk/STEPJournalJune2010V/resources/index.htm|url-status=live}}{{better source needed|date=September 2013}}</ref>
* [[Güler Sabancı]], 2024<ref>{{Cite web | title=2024 Yılı İlkbahar Döneminde Japonya Hükümeti Tarafından Nişanla Taltif Edilecek Yabancı Ülke Vatandaşları Hakkında | trans-title=About Foreign Nationals Who Will Be Awarded Medals by the Japanese Government in Spring 2024 | language=tr | url=https://www.tr.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_ja/11_000001_01043.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820144833/https://www.tr.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_ja/11_000001_01043.html | access-date=2025-04-30 | archive-date=2024-08-20}}</ref>
*[[Isaac Shapiro]] (1931–), 2006<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7sUwAQAAIAAJ&dq=isaac+shapiro+gold+ray&pg=RA4-PA7|title=Government of Japan to Confer Awards|work=Japan Info|date=Summer 2006|access-date=12 October 2011|archive-date=20 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820163839/https://books.google.com/books?id=7sUwAQAAIAAJ&dq=isaac+shapiro+gold+ray&pg=RA4-PA7#v=onepage&q=isaac%20shapiro%20gold%20ray&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[David Bowman Schneder]], 1936<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hojishinbun.hoover.org/?a=d&d=tnj19360604-03.1.11|title=Nippu Jiji 1936.06.04 Edition 03 – Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection|website=hojishinbun.hoover.org|access-date=2019-03-23|archive-date=5 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805235059/https://hojishinbun.hoover.org/?a=d&d=tnj19360604-03.1.11|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Edward Seidensticker]], 1975<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Hawaiʻi Presents Honorary Degree to Edward George Seidensticker|url=http://www.uhm.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=176|work=Current News|publisher=University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa|access-date=12 October 2011|archive-date=24 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111024181643/http://www.uhm.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=176|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Go Seigen]] aka Wu Qing Yuan (1914–2014), 1987<ref>{{cite news |url=http://macaomagazine.net/history/long-way-go |title=Long Way to Go: Japan celebrates 100th birthday of Chinese Go Master |last=Xunzhi |first=Luo |work=Macao Magazine<!-- Yes, spelled m-a-c-a-o --> |publisher=macaulink |date=2014-09-17 |access-date=2016-10-04 |archive-date=5 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005124628/http://macaomagazine.net/history/long-way-go |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* John Stich, 2021
* [[William Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill|William Forbes-Sempill]]<ref>Program on Lord Sempill and Japanese espionage, BBC 24 May 2012</ref>
* [[Shinichi Suzuki (violinist)|Shinichi Suzuki]] (1898–1998), c. 1970<ref>{{cite book|last=Hermann|first=Evelyn|title=Shinichi Suzuki: A Man and His Music|year=1996|publisher=Alfred Music}}</ref>
* [[Jeanette Takamura]], 2009
* [[Ichimatsu Tanaka]] (1895–1983), 1967
* [[Tadao Tannaka]] (1908–1986), 1980<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%B7%A1%E4%B8%AD%20%E5%BF%A0%E9%83%8E-1649544 |script-title=ja:淡中忠郎 |encyclopedia=20世紀日本人名事典 (20th-century people in Japan: A biographical dictionary) |publisher=Kotobank |language=ja |access-date=December 20, 2020 |archive-date=20 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820165011/https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%B7%A1%E4%B8%AD%E5%BF%A0%E9%83%8E-1091073 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Patrick Lennox Tierney]], 2007<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.la.us.emb-japan.go.jp/e_web/e_news_14.htm |title=Consulate General of Japan, Los Angeles |publisher=Consul Generale |access-date=5 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004025651/http://www.la.us.emb-japan.go.jp/e_web/e_news_14.htm |archive-date=4 October 2011}}</ref>
* [[Royall Tyler (academic)|Royall Tyler]], 2008<ref name=2008Spring>{{cite web|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/ICSFiles/afieldfile/2008/05/02/2008harunojyokun.pdf|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan|title=2008 Spring Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals|date=2008-05-01|access-date=2015-11-30|archive-date=29 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080529180440/http://www.mofa.go.jp/ICSFiles/afieldfile/2008/05/02/2008harunojyokun.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[T. Wayland Vaughan]] (1870–1952), 1940<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/resshow/perry/bios/VaughanThomas.htm|title=Vaughan, Thomas - Biography|website=www.pwrc.usgs.gov|access-date=27 May 2012|archive-date=20 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820164912/https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eesc|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Rudi Vervoort]], 2016
* [[Andrzej Wajda]], 1995<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiwum.rp.pl/artykul/56265_Andrzej_Wajda_kawalerem_Orderu_Wschodzacego_Slonca.html|title=Andrzej Wajda kawalerem Orderu Wschodzącego Słońca - Archiwum Rzeczpospolitej|last=Rp.pl|website=archiwum.rp.pl|access-date=15 January 2013|archive-date=9 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150609022548/http://archiwum.rp.pl/artykul/56265_Andrzej_Wajda_kawalerem_Orderu_Wschodzacego_Slonca.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Willy Vande Walle]], 2006<ref>Embassy of Japan in Belgium: [http://www.be.emb-japan.go.jp/english/japbel/vandewalle.html Decoration Awarding Ceremony of Prof. Dr. W.F. Vande Walle] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528050250/http://www.be.emb-japan.go.jp/english/japbel/vandewalle.html |date=28 May 2008 }}</ref>
* [[Sam Walsh (businessman)|Sam Walsh]], 2021<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.businessnews.com.au/article/Sam-Walsh-wins-Order-of-the-Rising-Sun| title = Sam Walsh wins Order of the Rising Sun, ''Business News'', 6 November 2021| date = 5 November 2021| access-date = 8 November 2021| archive-date = 20 August 2024| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240820164914/https://www.businessnews.com.au/article/Sam-Walsh-wins-Order-of-the-Rising-Sun| url-status = live}}</ref>
* [[R.J. Zwi Werblowsky]], 2009<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/gaiko/protocol/pdfs/h21_sp.pdf|title=本名簿賞賜欄の名称は、下表の勲章をそれぞれ授与されたことを示した 略称でる。|website=mofa.go.jp|language=ja|access-date=9 July 2023|archive-date=23 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201123040730/http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/gaiko/protocol/pdfs/h21_sp.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Charles Wolf, Jr]], 2007<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sitrep.globalsecurity.org/charles-wolf-jr/|title=Situation Report – Charles Wolf, Jr.|first=John|last=Pike|website=sitrep.globalsecurity.org|access-date=26 October 2016|archive-date=14 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914033923/http://sitrep.globalsecurity.org/charles-wolf-jr/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Lydia Yu-Jose]], 2012<ref>{{cite news | author=Apolonio, Eric B. | title=Emperor Akihito honors Ateneo prof for promoting Philippine-Japan friendship | url=http://www.interaksyon.com/article/34717/emperor-akihito-honors-ateneo-prof-for-promoting-philippine-japan-friendship | publisher=[[News5|TV5 News and Information]] | date=14 June 2012 | access-date=7 August 2014 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808230928/http://www.interaksyon.com/article/34717/emperor-akihito-honors-ateneo-prof-for-promoting-philippine-japan-friendship | archive-date=8 August 2014}}</ref>
* [[Jan van Zanen]], 2016<ref>{{cite web
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  | date = 27 May 2016
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}}</ref>
* [[Abul Barkat (economist)|Abul Barkat]] (1954–), 2022<ref>{{cite web|title=Conferral of "the Order of the Rising Sun" upon Prof. Dr. Abul Barkat and "the Order of the Sacred Treasure" upon Mr. Khan Jahangir Alam, Mr. Samar Cruze, Mr. Abdul Gafur, Mr. Sujit Kumar Barua, and Mr. Parimal Barua|publisher=Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh |url=https://www.bd.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/pr31022.html}}</ref>
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* [[Hank Aaron]] (1934–2021), 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/14571492/japan-honors-hank-aaron-order-rising-sun |title=Hank Aaron presented with Order of the Rising Sun |publisher=ESPN|date=14 January 2016 }}</ref>
* [[Ferran Adrià]] (1952–), 2015<ref>{{cite news|title=Ferran Adrià recibe la Orden del Sol Naciente|url=http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/12/11/estilo/1449832108_197534.html|access-date=5 May 2016|work=El País|agency=EFE|date=2015-12-11|language=es}}</ref>
* [[Toshiko Akiyoshi]] (1929–), 2004<ref name=nea>{{cite web|url=https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/toshiko-akiyoshi |title=Toshiko Akiyoshi |publisher=National Endowment for the Arts |access-date=2021-12-05}}</ref>
* [[Boris Akunin]] (1956–), 2009<ref>{{cite web |url=http://visualrian.com/images/item/395646 |title=Библиотека изображений "РИА Новости" :: Галерея |publisher=Visualrian.com |access-date=2011-11-05 }} {{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[Shusaku Arakawa]] (1936–2010), 2010<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.architectural-body.com/ |title=荒川修作＋マドリン・ギンズ – ARAKAWA + GINS Tokyo Office |access-date=6 July 2021 |archive-date=9 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184235/http://www.architectural-body.com/ |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
* [[Martha Argerich]] (1941–), 2005<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=994|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626102123/http://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=994|url-status=dead|title="Martha Argerich - IMG Artists"|archive-date=26 June 2009}}</ref>
* [[Charles Aznavour]] (1924–2018), 2018
* [[Noboru Baba]] (1927–2001), 2001
* [[Henry Pike Bowie]] (1848–1920), 1909<ref>Honor awarded 1909: [https://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ndnp:1389753/display.html?image=22  "Receives Guests Attired in Kimono"], ''The San Francisco Call''. 29 November 1909. p. 22.</ref>
* [[James Rodger Brandon|James R. Brandon]], 1994<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jortner |first1=David |last2=Foley |first2=Kathy |date=Fall 2001 |title=James R. Brandon |journal=Asian Theatre Journal |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press |volume=28 |issue=2 |page=350 |jstor=41306497}}</ref>
* [[William Penn Brooks]], 1888<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.massachusetts.edu/presidents/brooks.html |title=UMass Presidents William Penn Brooks |publisher=Massachusetts.edu |access-date=2011-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111033300/http://www.massachusetts.edu/presidents/brooks.html |archive-date=11 January 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Bobby Charlton]], 2012<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jfa.or.jp/eng/topics/2012/134.html |title=Sir Bobby Charlton awarded Japanese Order |publisher=jfa.or.jp |access-date=2014-04-04}}</ref>
* [[David Cope]], 2012
* [[William Elliot Griffis]] (1843–1928), 1907<ref name="amweg1"/>
* [[Kenji Ekuan]] (1925–2015), 2000<ref name="ABSCBN">{{cite news |url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/02/09/15/japanese-designer-behind-iconic-soy-sauce-bottle-dies-85 |title=Japanese designer behind iconic soy sauce bottle dies at 85 |date=2015-02-09 |publisher=[[ABS-CBN Corporation]] |access-date=2015-02-11 |archive-date=3 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200403212515/http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/02/09/15/japanese-designer-behind-iconic-soy-sauce-bottle-dies-85 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Atsuko Toko Fish]] 2018<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=Lillian |date=2018-11-14 |title=Atusuko Toko Fish receives prestigious award from the emperor of Japan |pages=B12 |work=The Boston Globe |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98080886/atusuko-toko-fish-receives-prestigious/ |access-date=2022-03-21}}</ref>
* [[Fujiko Fujio|Fujiko Fujio A]] (1934–), 2008<ref name="japantimes.co.jp">{{cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/11/03/national/more-than-4000-people-including-75-foreigners-to-be-decorated/|title = More than 4,000 people, including 75 foreigners, to be decorated|date = 3 November 2008}}</ref>
* [[Mohammad Hatta]] (1902–1980), 1943
* [[Reiko Hayama (architect)|Reiko Hayama]] (1933–2025), 2011
* [[Steven Heine]] (1950–), 2007<ref>[http://asianstudies.fiu.edu/page.php?c=a_recent  "Recent Awards,"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090119120121/http://asianstudies.fiu.edu/page.php?c=a_recent |date=19 January 2009 }} Florida International University, Asian Studies. 29 April 2007.</ref>
* [[Asao Hirano]] (1926–2019), 2001<ref>Consulate General of Japan in New York, [http://www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp/en/c/vol_09-4/title_04.html "Government of Japan to Honor Dr. Asao Hirano,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003000633/http://www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp/en/c/vol_09-4/title_04.html |date=3 October 2011 }} 2001.</ref>
* [[Terumasa Hino]] (1942–), 2019<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www8.cao.go.jp/shokun/hatsurei/r01haru/meibo_jokun/kyokujitsu-13tokyo.pdf |title=令和元年春の叙勲 |publisher=[[Cabinet Office (Japan)]] |access-date=2020-04-03 |language=ja |trans-title=conferring of decorations in [[Reiwa]] 1 (2019) spring |archive-date=6 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806041131/https://www8.cao.go.jp/shokun/hatsurei/r01haru/meibo_jokun/kyokujitsu-13tokyo.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Joe Hisaishi]], 2023<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2023110300161&g=pol|title= 旭日大綬章に片山虎之助氏 三浦友和さん、久石譲さんに小綬章―秋の叙勲|access-date= November 3, 2023|work= Oricon|date= 3 November 2023|archive-date= 20 August 2024|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240820160042/https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2023110300161&g=pol|url-status= dead}}</ref>
* [[Jean-Claude Hollerich]] (1958-), 2019 <ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-17 |title=Auszeichnung für Kardinal Hollerich |url=https://www.wort.lu/politik/auszeichnung-fuer-kardinal-hollerich/1035961.html |access-date=2025-08-23 |website=Luxemburger Wort |language=de-LU}}</ref>
* [[William Imbrie]] (1845–1928), 1909<ref>{{cite journal | title=Alumni William (Miller Kisselman) Imbrie, D.D. | journal=The Princeton Seminary Bulletin | volume=23 | number=2 | year=1929 | page=572}}</ref>
* [[Iskandar Jalil]], 2015
* [[Rena Kanokogi]] (1935–2009), 2008<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp/en/c/2008/japaninfo0812.html#1 |title=Consulate General of Japan in New York's Office |publisher=Ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp |access-date=2011-11-05}}</ref>
* [[Gō Katō]] (1938–2018), 2008<ref name="japantimes.co.jp"/>
* [[Kihachirō Kawamoto]] (1925–2010), 1995<ref>{{cite web|title=Puppet animation producer dies|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/rss/nn20100828a4.html|work=[[The Japan Times]]|access-date=29 August 2010|date=28 August 2010}}</ref>
* [[George Kerr (judoka)|George Kerr]] (1937–), 2010<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britishjudo.org.uk/home/GeorgeAkihito.php |title=British Judo Association |publisher=Britishjudo.org.uk |access-date=2011-11-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718205342/http://www.britishjudo.org.uk/home/GeorgeAkihito.php |archive-date=18 July 2011}}</ref>
* [[Keisuke Kinoshita]] (1912–1998), 1984<ref>Honor awarded 1984: [https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,322133,00.html Bergan, Ronald. "A satirical eye on Japan: Keisuke Kinoshita, film director; born December 5, 1912; died December 30, 1998,"] ''The Guardian'' (Manchester). 5 January 1999.</ref>
* [[Joy Kogawa]] (1935–), 2010<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.vancouver.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/en/special_en/2010/fall_conferment.htm|title = British Columbian Awarded Japan's Prestigious Order of the Rising Sun|publisher = Consulate-General of Japan in Vancouver}}</ref>
* [[Sachi Koto]] (1951– ), 2021<ref name=atlanta>{{citation |title=Sachi Koto was conferred the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette | newspaper=[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]] |date=December 3, 2021 |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/former-cnn-news-anchor-sachi-koto-was-conferred-prestigious-emperor-of-japan-award/ZA4YH4YLG5AUVOX34TEOZ7SSTU/}}</ref>
* [[Włodzimierz Kwieciński]] (1955–), 2012<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jaap.pjwstk.edu.pl/wodzimierz-kwieciski-odznaczony-orderem-wschodzcego-soca-zote-promienie-z-rozet/|title=Włodzimierz Kwieciński odznaczony Orderem Wschodzącego Słońca, Złote Promienie z Rozetą|date=17 June 2012|accessdate=9 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[Tommy Lasorda]] (1927–2021), 2008<ref>[http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081203&content_id=3699995&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb Lasorda honored by Japan], ''[[MLB.com]]'', 3 December 2008</ref>
* [[Liao I-chiu]] (1936–), 2014<ref name="Taiwan News 2019">{{cite web |author=Central News Agency |title=Taiwanese aquatic breeding expert wins Japan's Nikkei Asia Prize |url=https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3714035 |website=taiwannews.com.tw |date=30 May 2019 |publisher=Taiwan News |access-date=30 May 2019}}</ref>
* [[Leiji Matsumoto]], 2010<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-11-06/leiji-matsumoto-shigeru-mizuki-earn-government-honors |title=Leiji Matsumoto, Shigeru Mizuki Earn Government Honors |work=Anime News Network |date=2011-11-01 |access-date=2011-11-05}}</ref>
* [[Hazel McCallion]], 2014<ref>{{cite news|title=Mayor Hazel McCallion Awarded the Order of the Rising Sun|url=https://www.mississauga.ca/city-of-mississauga-news/news/mayor-hazel-mccallion-awarded-the-order-of-the-rising-sun/|access-date=18 June 2022|publisher=City of Mississauga|date=10 June 2014}}</ref>
* [[Rokusaburo Michiba]], 2007<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ifood.tv/network/rokusaburo_michiba |title=Rokusaburo Michiba |publisher=FutureToday Inc |access-date=2011-11-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507112528/http://www.ifood.tv/network/rokusaburo_michiba |archive-date=7 May 2013}}</ref>
* [[Frank A. Miller]], 1929<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.missioninnmuseum.com/collect_culdiv/culd00002.htm |title=Mission Inn Hands on History, Frank A. Miller Order of the Rising Sun |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100828152605/http://www.missioninnmuseum.com/collect_culdiv/culd00002.htm |archive-date=28 August 2010}}</ref>
* [[Nobuko Miyamoto]], 2022<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.toho-ent.co.jp/news/65766 |title=宮本信子 「旭日小綬章」受章しました  |date=3 November 2022 }}</ref>
* [[S. Floyd Mori|Shiro Floyd Mori]], 2012<ref name="Japanese Embassy to US">{{cite web|title=Conferral of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette upon Mr. Shiro Floyd Mori, National Executive Director Emeritus and former National President of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)|url=http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/english/html/pressreleases/index.htm|publisher=Embassy of Japan to the United States|access-date=7 November 2012|date=6 November 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024185414/http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/english/html/pressreleases/index.htm|archive-date=24 October 2012}}</ref>
* [[Raymond Moriyama]] (1929–2023), 2003<ref>{{cite news |title=Raymond Moriyama receives Award From Emperor of Japan |url=https://www.canadianarchitect.com/raymond-moriyama-receives-award-from-emperor-of-japan/ |access-date=9 June 2022 |work=Canadian Architect |date=4 February 2004}}</ref>
* [[Kent Nagano]], 2008<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sf.us.emb-japan.go.jp/archives/PR_e/2008/pr_08_1207.htm |title=Maestro Kent Nagano Awarded Order of the Rising Sun |publisher=Consulate-General of Japan in San Francisco |date=2008-12-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513035407/http://www.sf.us.emb-japan.go.jp/archives/PR_e/2008/pr_08_1207.htm |archive-date=13 May 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Masaya Nakamura (businessman)|Masaya Nakamura]] (1925–2017), 2007<ref>[http://www.coinoptoday.com/newsflash/news/namco-usa_2007-07-11_nakamura.html NAMCO AMERICA INC – Masaya Nakamura receives prestigious award] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723194632/http://www.coinoptoday.com/newsflash/news/namco-usa_2007-07-11_nakamura.html |date=23 July 2008 }} coinopTODAY.com, 25 October 2007 (retrieved 2007-25-10)</ref>
* [[Olivia Newton-John]] (1948–2022), 2021<ref name="english.kyodonews.net"/>
* [[Alan Nishio]] (1945-2023), 2016<ref name="LA Consulate 2016">{{cite web |title=Recipients of Spring 2016 Decorations |url=https://www.la.us.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/jokun_2016s.htm |website=Consulate-General of Japan in Los Angeles |access-date=13 June 2025}}</ref>
* [[Hideyo Noguchi]] (1876–1928), 1915<ref>Honor awarded 1915: Kita, Atsushi (2005). ''Dr. Noguchi's Journey: A Life of Medical Search and Discovery'', p. 196.</ref>
* [[Gustaf Wilhelm Olson]] (1876-1955), 1955<ref>{{cite news |title=Japan to Honor Gustaf Olson |publisher=The Honolulu Advertiser |date=5 August 1955}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Consul Olson Feted At Reception |publisher=The Honolulu Advertiser |date=31 August 1955}}</ref>
* [[David Ono]], 2022<ref name=muranaka>{{citation |last=Muranaka|first=Gwen|title=Ono Emotional at Conferment Ceremony | newspaper=[[Rafu Shimpo]] |date=March 1, 2022 |url=https://rafu.com/2022/03/ono-emotional-at-conferment-ceremony/}}</ref>
* [[Ivica Osim]], 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oslobodjenje.ba/sport/nogomet/osim-dobio-priznanje/187675 |title=Ivica Osim dobio priznanje vlade Japana |date=24 July 2013 |publisher=OSLOBODJENJE}}</ref>
* [[Daniel Ost]], 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.be.emb-japan.go.jp/english/archives/news_151222.html|title=Embassy of Japan in Belgium|website=www.be.emb-japan.go.jp|access-date=2 March 2016|archive-date=14 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314200122/http://www.be.emb-japan.go.jp/english/archives/news_151222.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Kenneth A. Oye|Kenneth Oye]], 2018<ref name=mofa>{{cite web| title=2018 Spring Conferment of Decoration on Foreign Nationals| url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/files/000358977.pdf}}</ref>
* [[Edwina Palmer]], 2018<ref>{{cite press release|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=The Conferral of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette upon Dr Edwina Palmer |url=https://www.nz.emb-japan.go.jp/files/000415613.pdf |location=[[Wellington, New Zealand]] |publisher=Embassy of Japan in New Zealand |date=2018-11-03 |access-date=2018-11-05}}</ref>
* [[Donald Richie]], 2005<ref name="I-House">{{cite book |last1=Yasushi |first1=Akashi |title=ドナルド・リチー |date=2013 |publisher=International House of Japan |isbn=978-4-924971-36-3 |url=https://gw.i-house.or.jp/opac/library?func=function.opacsch.toshoshozodsp&view=view.opacsch.newschdsp&lang=eng&shoshisbt=1&shoshino=0000029101}}</ref>
* [[Takao Saito]], 2010<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-04-28/golgo-13-saito-sunset-on-3rd-st.s-saigan-win-medals|title=Golgo 13's Saito, Sunset on 3rd St.'s Saigan Win Medals|work=[[Anime News Network]]|date=2010-04-28|access-date=2015-11-06}}</ref>
* [[Sanpei Satō]], 2006<ref name="mineshima 1992">{{cite book |author=峯島正行 (Masayuki Mineshima) |script-title=ja:ナンセンスに賭ける |trans-title=Betting on Nonsense |language=ja |publisher=[[Seiabo]] |date=June 1992 |isbn=4-7905-0375-5 |pages=9-31 |id={{NDLBibID|000002192378}}.}}</ref>
* [[David Bowman Schneder]], 1917<ref>Pierson, Delvan L. (1918). ''The Missionary Review of the World, January to December 1917''. pp. xiv.</ref>
* [[Frederik L. Schodt]], 2009<ref name=2009Spring /><ref name="schodt">[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/faq Anime News Network]:  [https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-04-29/frederik-l-schodt-wins-the-order-of-the-rising-sun-award  "Frederik L. Schodt Wins The Order of the Rising Sun Award,"] 29 April 2009.</ref>
* [[Peter Schreier]], 2019<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/files/000533919.pdf |title=2019 Autumn Conferment of Decoration on Foreign Nationals|website=mofa.go.jp|access-date=9 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[Manmohan Singh]], 2007<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.in.emb-japan.go.jp/Press_Releases_Embassy/PR05-07.html|title=Embassy of Japan in India: Press Releases from the Embassy|website=www.in.emb-japan.go.jp}}</ref>
* [[George Shima]] (1864–1926)<ref>Yoshimura, Toshio. (1981). [https://books.google.com/books?id=oux1AAAAMAAJ  ''Conferral of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette'' p. 53.]</ref>
* [[Tatsuzo Shimaoka]] (1919–2007), 1999<ref>Honor awarded 1999: [https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2241892,00.html Whiting, David. "Obituary: Tatsuzo Shimaoka; Japanese potter steeped in folk traditions who became a cultural ambassador,"] ''The Guardian'' (Manchester). 17 January 2008.</ref>
* [[Setsuko Shinoda]] (1955–), 2020<ref>{{cite web |date=28 April 2020 |url=https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO58555300X20C20A4CR8000/ |title=春の褒章660人・22団体 落語家の春風亭小朝さんら |publisher=[[Cabinet Office (Japan)]] |access-date=1 May 2020 |language=ja |trans-title=Decorations in spring: 660 people and 22 organizations}}</ref>
* [[Joseph Bower Siddall]] (1840–1904), 1909<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=983007&objectId=3299704&partId=1|title=Image gallery: medal|website=British Museum}}</ref>
* [[Dragan Stojković]] (1965–), 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sport.blic.rs/Fudbal/Svetski-fudbal/271663/Piksi-za-Blic-Meni-orden-Srbiji-priznanje |title=Piksi za "Blic": Meni orden, Srbiji priznanje |publisher=Blic |access-date=2015-04-30}}</ref>
* [[Sukarno]] (1901–1970), 1943
* [[Koichi Sugiyama]] (1931–2021), 2018<ref>{{cite web |last1=Komatsu |first1=Mikikazu |title=Dragon Quest Composer Koichi Sugiyama Receives The Order of the Rising Sun Award |url=https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2018/11/02/dragon-quest-composer-koichi-sugiyama-receives-the-order-of-the-rising-sun-award |website=[[Crunchyroll]] |access-date=9 October 2021}}</ref>
* [[Hiroshi Tachi]] (1950–), 2020<ref>{{cite news|title=舘ひろしが旭日小綬章を受章「思いもかけぬ栄誉」 |trans-title=Hiroshi Tachi receives Order of the Rising Sun |url=https://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/202011020000740.html |work=[[Nikkan Sports]] |access-date=2020-11-03 }}</ref>
* [[George Takei]] (1937–), 2004<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.georgetakei.com/bio.asp |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20010922010033/http://www.georgetakei.com/bio.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=2001-09-22 |title=George Takei, bio notes |publisher=Georgetakei.com |access-date=2011-11-05 }}</ref>
* [[Takeo Okuno]] (1926–1997), 1997
* [[Brian Taniguchi]] (1951–), 2023<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.honolulu.us.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/20231102.html |title=2023 Fall Imperial Decoration |publisher=Consulate-General of Japan in Honolulu|access-date=2023-11-09}}</ref>
* [[Kip Tokuda]] (1946–2013), 2012<ref>{{citation|newspaper=Rafu Shimpo|url=https://rafu.com/2013/07/former-washington-state-lawmaker-tokuda-dies-at-66/|title=Former Washington State Lawmaker Kip Tokuda Dies at 66 |date=July 18, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Masanobu Tsuji]] (1902–1961), 1942<ref>Honor awarded 1942: Tsuji, Masanobu. (1997). ''Japan's Greatest Victory, Britain's Worst Defeat'', p. 108.</ref>
* [[George Tsutakawa]] (1910–1997), 1981<ref name=historylink5426>{{cite web|last=Tarzan Ament |first=Deloris|url=https://www.historylink.org/File/5426|title=Tsutakawa, George (1910–1997)|work=[[HistoryLink|Historylink.org]]|date=2003-03-15}}</ref>
* [[Morihei Ueshiba]] (1883–1969), 1964<ref>Honor conferred 1964: North Austin Tae Kwan Do: [http://www.natkd.com/aikido_timeline.htm  "Chronology of the Life of Morihei Ueshiba, Founder of Aikido."]</ref>
* [[H. Paul Varley]] (1931–2015), 1966<ref>Honor awarded 1996: [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/profiles_faculty.html Columbia University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Faculty Profiles]</ref>
* [[The Ventures]], 2010<ref name="2010Spring"/>
* [[Sadao Watanabe (musician)|Sadao Watanabe]] (1933–), 2005<ref>Sadao Watanabe official website: [http://www.sadao.com/biography/index.html biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161114191347/http://www.sadao.com/biography/index.html |date=14 November 2016 }}</ref>
* [[Tetsuya Watari]] (1941–2020), 2013<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASFS0201M_S3A101C1PE8000/ |date=3 November 2013 |title=秋の叙勲、渡哲也さんら4193人 旭日大綬章に御手洗氏 |language=ja |trans-title=2013 Autumn medal |publisher=[[The Nikkei]] |access-date=2020-08-15}}</ref>
* [[William Scott Wilson]] (1944–), 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.miami.us.emb-japan.go.jp/documents/2015-11-3%20Press%20Release%20(Wilson%20EN).pdf |title=Conferral of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, upon translator William Scott Wilson |publisher=Consulate-General of Japan in Miami|access-date=2015-12-08}}</ref>
* [[Teruaki Yamagishi]] (1934–), 2008<ref>http://www.yamagishi.com.br  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120726163917/http://www.yamagishi.com.br/ |date=26 July 2012 }}</ref>
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* [[Moriteru Ueshiba]] (1951-), 2025<ref>http://www.aikikai.or.jp/eng/about/information/detail.html?news_id=518</ref>

=== 5th Class, Gold and Silver Rays ===
[[File:JPN Kyokujitsu-sho 5Class BAR.svg|85px|ribbon bar]]

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* [[Dick Beyer]] (1930–2019), 2017
* [[Daniela Kaneva]], 2011<ref>{{cite web|title=Award-winning Journalist Daniela Kaneva Dies at 87|url=https://www.bta.bg/en/news/culture/877393-award-winning-journalist-daniela-kaneva-dies-at-87}}</ref>
*[[Pabitra Sarkar]], 2019
* [[Frances Hashimoto]] (1943–2012), 2012<ref name=rafu>{{cite news|first=Ellen|last=Endo|title=Mikwaya CEO Hashimoto Passes at 69 |url=http://www.rafu.com/2012/11/mikawaya-ceo-hashimoto-passes-at-69/ |work=[[Rafu Shimpo]] |date=2012-11-05 |access-date=2012-12-02}}</ref>
* [[Abdullah Ibrahim]] (1934– ), 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.za.emb-japan.go.jp/files/100051950.pdf |title= Press Release, Embassy of Japan in South Africa, 29th April, 2020. 2020 Spring Conferment of Decoration from Japan, Abdullah Ibrahim |publisher=Embassy of Japan in South Africa|access-date=2022-04-01}}</ref>
* [[Jan Kowalewski]] (1892–1965), 1923<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dzienniklodzki.pl/artykul/185093,szyfrant-ktory--sprawil-cud,3,id,t,sa.html|title=Szyfrant, który sprawił cud|first=Anna|last=Gronczewska|date=13 November 2009}}</ref>
* [[Lori Matsukawa]] (1956– ), 2022<ref name=napost>{{citation |title=Lori Matsukawa, Tom Sasaki Win Imperial Awards | newspaper=[[North American Post]] |date=May 22, 2022 |url=https://napost.com/2022/lori-matsukawa-tom-sasaki-win-imperial-awards/}}</ref>
* [[Soleiman Mehdizadeh]] (1955– ), 2012<ref>Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan; [http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/info/conferment/pdfs/2012_au.pdf   ''2012 Autumn Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals,'' p. 6.]</ref>
* [[Kenzo Mori]] (1914–2007), 2007<ref>Cordileone, Elvira. [https://www.thestar.com/article/173455 "Kenzo Mori: An impact on two shores,"] ''The Star'' (Toronto). 22 January 2007.</ref>
* [[Shōshin Nagamine]] (1907–1997), 1982
* [[Shūgorō Nakazato]] (1920–2016), 2007
* [[Kiyoshi Nishiyama]] (1893–1983), 1977<ref>Unpaginated editors' chronology appended to Kiyoshi Nishiyama, ''Shunkō shūshoku'' ({{nihongo2|春光秋色}}) / ''Seasonal Aspects of Japan'' (Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1979) {{in lang|ja|en}}.</ref>
* [[Steere Noda]], 1968<ref>{{Cite book|title=Hawaii's AJA Pioneers: One hundred profiles commemorating the centennial of the Hawaii Hochi|last=Chinen|first=Karleen C.|publisher=Hawaii Hochi|year=2012|location=Honolulu|pages=18–19}}</ref>
* [[Hironori Ōtsuka]] (1892–1982), 1966<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wado-ryu.jp/english.html|title=和道流空手道連盟|website=www.wado-ryu.jp|access-date=4 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207055148/http://wado-ryu.jp/english.html|archive-date=7 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Sumitra Peries]] (1934–2023), 2021
* [[Vincenzo Ragusa]] (1841–1927), 1884
* [[Antone Rosa]] (1855–1898), 1884<ref>Honor awarded 1884:  [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015418/1884-08-26/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1884&index=10&date2=1884&words=Anton+Rosa&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&rows=20&proxtext=Antone+Rosa&y=19&x=22&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1]. "The Pacific Commercial Advertiser" (Honolulu). 26 August 1884.</ref>
* [[Inés Sánchez]] (1931–2023), 2012<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nacion.com/viva/television/ines-sanchez-recibira-condecoracion-de-japon/FGL6LUTMHBHCFJHWMTYRBIGTEE/story/ |title=Inés Sánchez recibirá condecoración de Japón |trans-title=Inés Sánchez to Receive Decoration from Japan |first=Lysalex |last=Hernández A. |newspaper=[[La Nación (San José)|La Nación]] |location=San José |language=es |date=2012-11-28 |access-date=2020-04-27}}</ref>
*[[Doreen Simmons]] (1932–2018), 2017<ref>{{cite web|url=http://metro.co.uk/2017/11/09/85-year-old-doreen-receives-prestigious-award-for-her-contribution-to-sumo-wrestling-7065420/|title=85-year-old Doreen receives prestigious award for her contribution to sumo wrestling|last=Scott|first=Ellen|date=9 November 2017|publisher=Metro|access-date=16 March 2018}}</ref>
* [[Yosihiko H. Sinoto]] (1924–2017), 1995<ref name=loukam>{{citation |last=Betty |first=Lou Kam |title=Remembrance – Aloha Oe to a Pacific Soul, Dr. Yoshiko Sinoto | newspaper=The Hawaii Herald |date=November 14, 2017 |url=https://www.thehawaiiherald.com/2017/11/14/remembrance-aloha-oe-to-a-pacific-soul-dr-yoshiko-sinoto/}}</ref>
* [[James Takemori]] (1926–2015), 2004<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usjf.com/2015/08/2015-members-of-usjf-hall-of-fame|title=2015 Members of USJF Hall of Fame|first=Vaughn|last=Imada|date=24 August 2015|publisher=United States Judo Federation|access-date=2015-11-30|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208230618/http://www.usjf.com/2015/08/2015-members-of-usjf-hall-of-fame/|archive-date=8 December 2015}}</ref>
* [[Seiichi Tanaka]] (1968– ), 2013<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sf.us.emb-japan.go.jp/archives/PR_e/2014/pr_14_0213.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151023102100/http://www.sf.us.emb-japan.go.jp/archives/PR_e/2014/pr_14_0213.htm|url-status=dead|title="Reception in Honor of Mr. Seiichi Tanaka, Grand Master of San Francisco Taiko Dojo", Consulate-General of Japan in San Francisco, 13 February 2014|archive-date=23 October 2015}}</ref>
* [[Alicia Terada]], 2017<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.laplatahochi.com.ar/index.php?option=com_content&id=1880&fb_comment_id=1853152164700179_1856931620988900|title=Otra condecoración para la diputada Alicia Terada|date=9 August 2017|access-date=27 July 2021|language=es}}</ref>
* [[Rudolf Teusler]] (1876–1934)<ref>{{cite journal|title=Obituary|volume=2|issue=3844|page=496|pmc=2445123|journal=British Medical Journal|year=1934|pmid=20778528}}</ref>
* [[Ted Tsukiyama]] (1920–2019), 2001<ref name=nikkei>{{citation |title=Ted Tsukiyama | newspaper=[[Discover Nikkei]] |year= 2019 |url=http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/journal/author/tsukiyama-ted/}}</ref>
* [[Ronald Stewart Watt]] (1947– ), 2010<ref name="2010Spring">[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)]]: [http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/announce/2010/4/pdfs/0429_01_01.pdf   ''2010 Spring Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals,'' p. 8.]</ref>
* [[William Wheeler (engineer)|William Wheeler]] (1851–1932), 1924<ref>{{cite web|url=https://patch.com/massachusetts/concord/wheeler-work-in-japan-translated-into-english |title=Wheeler Work in Japan Translated into English &#124; Concord, MA Patch |publisher=Patch.com |date= 7 August 2010|accessdate=2022-05-03}}</ref><ref>Tetsuo Takasaki, Hyōden oyatoi Amerikajin seinen kyōshi: Uiriamu Hoīrā = William Wheeler, 1851–1932 (Tōkyō : Kajima Shuppankai, 2004).</ref>
*Shuji Yagi (Shuho [[Bon Yagi]]), 2019
* [[Akira Yoshizawa]] (1911–2005), 1983<ref>Honor awarded 1983: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070210030603/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article439880.ece "Origami artist of stunning originality who became an ambassador for Japanese culture and his art"]. ''The Times'' (London). 30 March 2005; [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/apr/08/guardianobituaries.japan Lister, David. "Obituary: Akira Yoshizawa; Japanese craftsman who singlehandedly revived the art of origami,"] ''The Guardian'' (Manchester). 8 April 2005.</ref>
* [[Branislav Crnogorac]] (1952–), 2020<ref>{{cite web |title=Branislav Crnogorac odlikovan japanskim Ordenom izlazećeg sunca |url=https://www.klix.ba/sport/borilacki-sportovi/branislav-crnogorac-odlikovan-japanskim-ordenom-izlazeceg-sunca/201103060 |website=www.klix.ba |access-date=8 June 2023 |language=sh |date=3 Nov 2020}}</ref>
*Kaneko Oshima Bishop (1930-2022), 2013<ref>{{cite web |title=Japan to Honor Woman |url=https://www.sandiegoyokohamasistercity.org/japan-to-honor-woman-2/ |website=www.sandiegoyokohamasistercity.org |access-date=5 December 2025 | date=6 May 2013}}</ref>

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=== 6th Class, Silver Rays ===
[[File:JPN Kyokujitsu-sho 6Class BAR.svg|85px|ribbon bar]]
* [[Henry Hajimu Fujii]] (1886–1976), 1971<ref>Honor awarded on 1971: Henshall, Mary. "Pioneer Portraits: Henry and Fumiko Fujii," ''[[Idaho Yesterdays]].,''  Spring, 1975, pp. 20–27; Washington State University Libraries: [http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/imls_3&CISOPTR=145&CISOBOX=1&REC=3 "Furthering friendship between Japan and the United States, April 1971"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150609032330/http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2Fimls_3&CISOPTR=145&CISOBOX=1&REC=3 |date=9 June 2015 }}</ref>
* [[Bolesław Orliński]] (1899–1992), 1926<ref name="pl.emb-japan.go.jp">{{Cite web|url=http://www.pl.emb-japan.go.jp/relations/epizody.pdf|title=Wybrane epizody w historii stosunków japońsko-polskich Polish Embassy|accessdate=9 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[Shigetaka Sasaki]] (1903–1993), 1986
* [[Yun Chi-sung]] (1875–1936), 1905<ref>{{cite web |title=한국사데이터베이스 |url=http://db.history.go.kr/id/im_108_01806 |access-date=2022-03-16 |website=db.history.go.kr}}</ref>

=== 7th Class, Green Paulownia Leaves Medal ===
[[File:JPN Kyokujitsu-sho 7Class BAR.svg|85px|ribbon bar]]

In 2003, the 7th and 8th levels – named for leaves of the [[Paulownia]] tree, long used as a [[Mon (emblem)|mon]] (emblem) for the highest levels of Japanese society – were moved to a new and distinct order, the single-class ''[[Order of the Paulownia Flowers]]''.<ref name=NewAward/>

=== 8th Class, white Paulownia Leaves Medal ===
[[File:JPN Kyokujitsu-sho 8Class BAR.svg|85px|ribbon bar]]

In 2003, the 7th and 8th levels – named for leaves of the [[Paulownia]] tree, long used as a [[Mon (emblem)|mon]] (emblem) for the highest levels of Japanese society – were moved to a new and distinct order, the single-class ''[[Order of the Paulownia Flowers]]''.<ref name=NewAward/>

=== Class unknown ===
[[File:JPN Kyokujitsu-sho blank BAR.svg|85px|ribbon bar]]

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* [[Aung San]] (1915–1947)<ref name="nndb1"/><!-- Aung San's surname is Aung -->
* [[Edvard Beneš]] (1884–1948), 1928
* [[Jane Birkin]] (1947–2023), 2018<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jackroad.co.jp/shop/pages/hermes_birkin_en.aspx|title=Jack Road|website=www.jackroad.co.jp}}</ref>
* [[Ralph T. Browning]] (1941–2018)<ref>{{cite web |url= http://avhof.org/members/membership-directory/rbrowning/ |title= Browning, Ralph (Tom) |website= AVHoF.org |publisher= 5 Pints Productions |access-date= 14 August 2018}}</ref>
* [[Ernesto Burzagli]] (1873–1944), 1906<ref>Honor awarded in 1906: [[commons:Image:Osakamainiki.jpg|"Cruiser 'Livia' in Kobe to Greet Italians"]], ''Osaka Mainichi''. 28 July 1922.</ref>
* [[Henry Clews]] (Awarded 1908)<ref>{{cite book |title=Men & Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries |url=https://archive.org/details/menwomenofameric00newy |date=1910 |publisher=L.R. Hamersly |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/menwomenofameric00newy/page/362 362]}}</ref>
* [[Albert M. Craig]] (1988)<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Craig|first1=Albert M.|title=The heritage of Japanese Civilization|year=2010|publisher=Prentice Hall|location=Boston|isbn=978-0-13-600524-7|pages=Author Bio}}</ref>
* [[William Theodore de Bary]] (1993)<ref>{{cite web|url= http://cicdatabank.library.ohiou.edu/opac/americanscholar_view.php?bibid%5b%5d=27&num=1&pagenum=10|title= Scholars and Librarians in East Asian Studies (North America) - William Theodore de Bary|author= Ohio University Libraries|access-date= 21 April 2011|archive-date= 6 October 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161006060337/https://cicdatabank.library.ohiou.edu/opac/americanscholar_view.php?bibid%5b%5d=27&num=1&pagenum=10|url-status= dead}}</ref>
* [[Robert Lawrence Eichelberger]] (1886–1961)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060209141928/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,776066,00.html "Uncle Bob"], ''Time'', 10 September 1945.</ref>
* [[Alfred John Ellis]] (1915–2020), 1989<ref name=sfu1>{{cite web|url=https://www.sfu.ca/advancement/donors/a_john_ellis.html|title=A. John Ellis|work=[[Simon Fraser University]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319232225/http://www.sfu.ca/advancement/donors/a_john_ellis.html|archive-date=19 March 2014}}</ref>
* [[Granville Roland Fortescue]] (1875–1952)<ref>Arlington National Cemetery: [http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/fortesc.htm Granville Roland Foretscue] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915134226/http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/fortesc.htm |date=15 September 2016 }}</ref>
* [[Frank B. Gibney, Sr.]] (1924–2006), 1976<ref>{{cite web|author=Cynthia Peters|title=Frank B. Gibney, 81, One of the Nation's Preeminent Experts on Asia and President of the Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College, Has Died|url=http://www.pomona.edu/news/2006/04/10-Frank-Gibney-Dies.aspx|publisher=Pomona College|date=4 April 2006|access-date=21 April 2011|archive-date=16 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516095150/http://www.pomona.edu/news/2006/04/10-Frank-Gibney-Dies.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Louis Grondijs]] (1878–1961)
* [[Hosoya Jūdayū]] (1840–1907)
* [[Ibrahim of Johor]] (1873–1959)
* [[Isao Kataoka]] (1936–2015), 2008<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jihf.or.jp/photo_gallery/detail.php?id=593|title=前JIHF副会長片岡勲氏「春の叙勲で旭日双光章を受章|date=12 May 2008|website=[[Japan Ice Hockey Federation]]|language=ja|access-date=1 November 2024}}</ref>
* [[Cargill Gilston Knott]] (1856–1922), 1891<ref>Honor awarded 1891: Penicuik Community Development Trust (UK): [http://penicuikcdt.org.uk/Cargill_Knott.html Cargill Gilston Knott]</ref>
* [[George Frederick Kunz]] (1856–1932)
* [[Charles de Limburg Stirum]] (1906–1989)
* [[Henryk Lipszyc]], 1992<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.civitas.edu.pl/pub/studia/studia_podyplomowe/Dyplomacja_EFWF.pdf|title=amb. Henryk LIPSZYC}}</ref>
* [[Lionel W. McKenzie]] (1995)
* [[George F. Morrison]] (1867–1943)
* [[Musa Ghiatuddin Riayat Shah of Selangor]], [[Sultan]] of [[Selangor]] (1893–1955)
* [[Ozaki Yukio]] (1858–1954)<ref>Ozaki, Yukio. (2001). ''The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan,'' p. 393.</ref>
* [[Godfrey Paine]] (1871–1932), 1918<ref>Honor awarded 1918: [http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Paine.htm RAF web page]</ref>
* [[Hugh Talbot Patrick]] 1994<ref name="columbia2">Honor awarded 1994: [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/reed_newsletter/The%20Reed,%20Spring%202007.pdf Weatherhead East Asian Institute, ''The Reed'']</ref>
* [[Rossiter W. Raymond]] (1840–1918)
* [[Takamine Hideo]] (1854–1910)
* [[James R. Wasson]] (1847–1923), 1874<ref>Honor awarded 1874: [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9902E2DB1730E033A25751C2A96E9C94659ED7CF "A Victory for the Chinese; Japanese Driven with Heavy Loss from Ping-yang"], ''The New York Times'', 22 August 1894.</ref>
* [[Franciszek Ziejka]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lubiehrubie.pl/wiadomosci/spotkanie-z-prof-franciszkiem-ziejka-1|title=WIADOMOŚCI - Spotkanie z prof. Franciszkiem Ziejką|last=emabe.pl|date=23 October 2011}}</ref>
* [[Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin]] (1822–1902), 1881<ref>{{langx|ru|«Полный послужной список Корпуса Инженер Механиков Генерал-Майора Зарубина 1-го» (ЦГАВМФ СССР Фонд 406 опись 3 дело 960 лист 21 (оборотный))}}; {{langx|en|"A full track record of Mechanical Engineering Corps Major-General Zarubin 1st" (Central State Archive of the Navy of the Soviet Union (Russian State Naval Archives now), Fond 406 inventory 3 file 960 sheet 21 (reverse side))}}</ref>
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* [[Kisshomaru Ueshiba]] (1921–1999), ?<ref>http://www.aikikai.or.jp/eng/about/information/detail.html?news_id=518</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Order of merit]]: A list of orders by various states
* Systems of other states:
** [[Order of Civil Merit (Korea)]]
** [[Order of Chula Chom Klao]] and [[Order of the White Elephant]] (Thailand)
** [[Order of St. Michael and St. George]] (UK)
** [[Legion of Honour]] (France)
** [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]] (Grand Merit Cross, Merit Cross and Merit Medal equivalents)
** [[Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"]] (Russia)
** [[Order of Isabella the Catholic]] (Spain)
** [[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic]]
** [[Hungarian Order of Merit]]
** [[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 ==
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== 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. {{ISBN|1-890974-09-9}}.

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Order of the Rising Sun}}
* Japan, Cabinet Office: [https://www8.cao.go.jp/shokun/en/index-e.html Decorations and Medals]
** Decoration Bureau: [https://www8.cao.go.jp/shokun/en/orders-of-the-rising-sun.html Order of the Rising Sun]
* [[Japan Mint]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130105120056/http://www.mint.go.jp/eng/operations/order/medalsofhonor.html Production Process]

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