Prix de la Fondation du Japon

• Serge Elisseeff (Professeur, université Harvard / Études japonaises) [États-Unis]
• Maison internationale du Japon, Inc. [Japon]
• Japan Society [États-Unis]
• Université Sophia [Japon]

• James William Fulbright (ancien sénateur) [États-Unis]
• Bernard Leach (potier) [Royaume-Uni]

• Edwin Oldfather Reischauer (Professor, Harvard University; Former Ambassador to Japan / Japanese Studies) [États-Unis]
• Kojiro Yoshikawa (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University; Chairman, The Institute of Eastern Culture) [Japon]

• John Whitney Hall (Professeur, Yale University / Histoire du Japon moderne) [Union Européenne]
• Robert E. Ward (Professeur, Stanford University / Politique) [Union Européenne]
• Tōyō Bunko [Japon]

• Ronald Philip Dore (Professor, University of Sussex) [Royaume-Uni]
• Choei Ishibashi (Chairman, International Medical Society of Japan / Pediatrics) [Japon]
• Meiji Newspapers and Magazine Library, the Faculty of Laws, the University of Tokyo [Japon]

• Frank James Daniels (Professor Emeritus, University of London / Japanese Language Teaching Methodology) [Royaume-Uni]
• James Lanius Stewart (Representative in Japan, The Asian Foundation) [États-Unis]
• Yasaka Takagi (Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo; Member, The Japan Academy / U.S. Political History) [Japon]

• Charles Burton Fahs (Former Minister at U.S. Embassy in Tokyo; Former Professor, Miami University) [États-Unis]
• Robert Guillain (journaliste) [France]
• Shigeharu Matsumoto (Chairman, The International House of Japan, Inc.) [Japon]

• George Cyril Allen (Professor Emeritus, University of London / Japanese Studies) [Royaume-Uni]
• Hugh Borton (Senior Researcher, Asian Institute, Columbia University) [États-Unis]
• Shinobu Iwamura (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University / Eastern Studies) [Japon]

• Ungku Abdul Aziz (Vice Chancellor, University of Malaya / Economics) [Malaisie]
• George Richard Storry (Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford / Japanese Studies) [Royaume-Uni]
• The Institute of Eastern Culture [Japon]

• Yoshitaro Amano (Honorary Director, The Museo Amano of Peru) [Pérou]
• Marius Berthus Jansen (Professor, Princeton University / Japanese Studies) [États-Unis]
• Akira Kurosawa (réalisateur) [Japon]

• Donald Keene (Professor, Columbia University / Japanese Literature) [États-Unis]
• René Sieffert (President, l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales [INALCO]) [France]
• Shinichi Suzuki (President & Director, Talent Education Institute) [Japon]

• Sir John Grenfell Crawford (Former Chancellor, Australian National University / Economics) [Australie]
• Yoichi Maeda (Managing Director, The International House of Japan, Inc.) [Japon]
• Edward Seidensticker (professeur, Columbia University / Japanese Literature) [États-Unis]

• Bernard Frank (professeur, Collège de France / Japanese Literature, Religious Thought) [France]
• Eleanor Jorden (Professor, Cornell University / Linguistics, Japanese Language Teaching) [États-Unis]

• Fosco Maraini (President, Italian Association for Japanese Studies / Anthropology) [Italie]
• The Japan Society of Northern California [États-Unis]

• James William Morley (Professor, Columbia University / International Relations) [États-Unis]
• Chie Nakane (Professor Emerita, University of Tokyo / Social Anthropology) [Japon]

• Seiji Ozawa (Music Director, Boston Symphony Orchestra) [Japon]
• Xia Yan (Vice-President, All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles) [Chine]

• David MacEachron (Advisor to the Board of Directors, the Japan Society (NY)) [États-Unis]
• Alexander Slawik (Professor Emeritus, The University of Vienna / Ethnology, Asian Studies) [Autriche]

• Wieslaw Roman Kotanski (Professor, The University of Warsaw / Japanese Studies) [Pologne]
• Tadao Umesao (Director-General, National Museum of Ethnology) [Japon]

• Byong-sam Han (Director-General, National Museum of Korea / Anthropology) [Corée]
• Ian Nish (en) (Professor Emeritus, London School of Economics, University of London / Anglo-Japanese relations) [Royaume-Uni]

• Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana (en) (recteur, Universitas Nasional / Literature) [Indonésie]
• Frits Vos (Professor Emeritus, Leiden University / Japanese Studies) [Pays-Bas]

• Josef Pittau, S.J. (President, The Pontifical Gregorian University) [Italie]
• Toru Takemitsu (compositeur) [Japon]

• Toshio Kawatake (Professor Emeritus, Waseda University) [Japon]
• Heinrich Pfeiffer (Secretary General, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) [Allemagne]

• Donald Richie (Writer / Film Historian) [États-Unis]
• Soshitsu Sen (Grand Master, Urasenke Tradition of Tea) [Japon]

• Lee O-young (Chair Professor, Ewha Women's University) [Corée]
• Ezra Feivel Vogel (Director, Fairbank Center for East-Asia Research, Harvard University) [États-Unis]

• Roger Goepper (Professor, University of Cologne) [Allemagne]
• Ping-hua Sun (President, The China-Japan Friendship Association) [Chine]

• Ikuma Dan (Composer, Member of the Art Academy of Japan) [Japon]
• Robert Anthony Scalapino (en) (Robson Research Professor of Government Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley) [États-Unis]

• Frank Gibney (en) (President, The Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College) [États-Unis]
• Wolfgang Sawallisch (chef d'orchestre, Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra Honorary Conductor Laureate of the NHK Symphony Orchestra) [Allemagne]

• Myong Kwan Chi (Director,Institute of Japanese Studies, Hallym University) [Corée]
• Yoneo Ishii (President, Kanda University of International Studies) [Japon]

• William G. Beasley (Emeritus Professor of the History of the Far East, University of London) [U.K]
• Ikuo Hirayama (Artist) [Japon]

• Gerald L. Curtis (Burgess Professor of Political Science, Columbia University) [États-Unis]
• Makoto Ooka (Poet) [Japon]

• Yoshiaki Ishizawa (Professor, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University) [Japon]
• Josef Kreiner (Director, Institute of Japanese Studies, The University of Bonn) [Autriche]

• Toshiko Akiyoshi (Jazz Pianist, Jazz Music Composer) [Japon]

• Hayao Miyazaki (Animated Film Director) [Japon]

• Joe and Etsuko Price (Directors, The Shin'enKan Foundation) [États-Unis]

• Royall Tyler (Former Professor and Head of the Japan Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies, université nationale australienne

• Arts and Culture : Marco Muller (Director of the Venice International Film Festival) [Italie]
• Japanese Language : Angela Hondru (Professor of Japanese Literature and Civilization, Hyperion University) [Roumanie]
• Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange : Kenneth B. Pyle (en) (Professor, University of Washington) [États-Unis]

• Arts and Culture : Boris Akounine (écrivain) [Russie]
• Japanese Language : Alliance of Associations of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) [États-Unis]
• Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange : Arthur Stockwin (Former director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford) [G.B]

• Arts and Culture : Tadao Sato (critique de cinéma) [Japon]
• Japanese Language : Savitri Vishwanathan (Former Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Delhi) [Inde]
• Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange: Ben-Ami Shillony (Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) [Israël]

• Arts and Culture : Tambuco (en) ensemble de percussions [Mexique]
• Japanese Language : Department of Japanese and Japanese Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University [Égypte]
• Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange : Augustin Berque (Retired Professor, School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) [France]

De 1974 à 2007, Special Prizes have been conferred, supplementing the list of those recognized by the Foundation.

• Japan Center for International Exchange (en) [Japon]
• The Japanese Cultural Society, Singapore [Singapour]

• The Asian Students Cultural Association [Japon]
• The European Association for Japanese Studies [Europe]
• The Maison Franco-Japonaise [Japon]

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur-und Völkerkunde Ostasiens [à Tokyo]
• The Fukuoka UNESCO Association [Japon]

• The International Society for Educational Information [Japon]
• Simul International, Inc. [Japon]

• The Tokyo School of Japanese Language, The Institute for Research in Linguistic Culture [Japon]
• The Kodokan [Japan]

• The Australia, Japan and Western Pacific Economic Relations Research Committee, A.N.U. [Australie]
• Ken Kurihara (Compilatory Staff, Diplomatic Record Office) [Japon]

• Africa Society of Japan [Japan]
• The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language [Japon]

• The Nihon Ki-in [Japan]
• Publishers Association for Cultural Exchange, Japan [Japon]

• The Asiatic Society of Japan [in Tokyo]
• The Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies [à Tokyo]

• The Asian Cultural Centre for UNESCO [Japon]
• The International Students Institute [Japon]

• AFS International / Intercultural Programs, Inc. [États-Unis]
• Kawakita Memorial Film Institute [Japon]

• The International Education Center [Japon]
• Japan-China Cultural Exchange Association [Japon]

• Shotaro Iida (Associate Professor, University of British Columbia / Indian Studies, Buddhism) [Canada]
• The Japan-Netherlands Institute [Japon]

• Lokesh Chandra (Director, International Academy of Indian Culture / Buddhism) [Inde]
• Josef Kreiner (Professor, Bonn University / Japanese Ethnology) [Autriche]

• Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (Toronto) [Canada]
• Jean-Jacques Origas (Professor, l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales) [France]

• Akio Hosono (Professor, The University of Tsukuba / Economics, Latin American Studies) [Japon]
• Japan Association for Foreign Student Affairs [Japon]

• The Indonesian Foundation for Intercultural Learning [Indonésie]
• The University of Tokyo Press [Japon]

• La Asociacion Argentino-Japonesa (Argentine-Japanese Association) [Argentine]
• Japan Silver Volunteers, Inc. [Japon]

• The Association for Japanese-Language Teaching [Japon]
• Peter Kornicki (University Lecturer in Japanese, University of Cambridge) [Royaume-Uni] / Nozomu Hayashi (Associate Professor, Toyoko Gakuen Women's College / Littérature japonaise) [Japon]
• Yuriko Kuronuma (violoniste, President of Academia Yuriko Kuronuma) [Mexique]

• Iwanami Hall [Japon]
• Tatyana Lyvovna Sokolova-Delyusina (traducteur, membre du comité de littérature de Moscou) [Russie]

• Kōdansha International Ltd. [Japon]
• Phaisith Phipatanakul (Secretary General, National Assembly) [Thaïlande]

• The Association for the Conservation of National Treasures [Japon]
• Haji Abdul Razak Abdul Hamid (en) (Head, Look East Policy Programme, Centre of Preparatory Education, MARA Institute of Technology) [Malaysia][3].

• Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Columbia University [États-Unis]
• Midori Goto (violoniste / Founder and President of the Midori Foundation) [Japon / États-Unis]

• Centre of Japanese Art and Technology "Manggha" in Cracow [Pologne]
• Kai Nieminen (traducteur de littérature japonaise, japonologue, écrivain) [Finlande]

• Thomas Erdos (Artistic Director, Theatre de la Ville) [France]
• Pusan Korea-Japan Cultural Exchange Assoiciation [Corée]
• Suntory Foundation [Japon]

• Japanese American National Museum (en) [États-Unis]
• Ahmet Mete Tuncoku (Professor, Middle East Technical University) [Turquie]
• Tadashi Yamamoto (President, Japan Center for International Exchange) [Japon]

• The Daido Life Foundation [Japon]
• Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa Museums [Israël]
• Willy Freddy Vande Walle (Department Chair Section of Japanese Studies, Department of Oriental and Slavonic Studies, The Catholic University of Leuven) [Belgique]

• Kosta Balabanov (President of the Society for Macedonian-Japanese Friendship and Cooperation, Honorary Consul-General of Japan in Skopje) [Macédoine]
• The Berliner Festspiele [Allemagne]
• Naoyuki Miura (President, Artistic Director of Music From Japan, Inc.) [Japon]

• Mouvement Japanese Mothers for Foreign Students de la YWCA de Tokyo [Japon]
• The Old Japan Students' Association, Thailand (OJSAT) [Thaïlande]
• Warsaw University, Oriental Studies Institute, Department of Japanese and Korean Studies [Pologne]

• Far Eastern National University, Institute of Oriental Studies [Russie]
• Mikio Kato (Trustee and Executive Director, International House of Japan) [Japon]
• Turkish Japanese Foundation [Turquie]

• James Quandt (Senior Programmer, Cinematheque Ontario) [Canada]
• Kurayoshi Takara (Professor, Faculty of Law and Letters, the University of the Ryukyus) [Japon]
• Dok Bong Yi (Professor, Division of Foreign Languages, Dongduk Women's University) [Corée]

• China Japanese Educational Association [Chine]
• Tabassum Kashmiri (Former Foreign Instructor, Osaka University of Foreign Studies) [Pakistan]
• Philippine Educational Theater Association [Philippines]

• Yongdeok Kim (doyen, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University) [Corée]
• Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculty of Asian and African Studies [Russie]
• Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Organizing Committee [Japon]

• Ayse Selcuk Esenbel (professeur à l'Université du Bosphore) [Turquie]
• Levy Hideo (romancier; professeur à la Hosei University) [États-Unis]
• Fram Kitagawa (Art Director; Chairman, Art Forum Gallery Co.) [Japon]