Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy

The Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy (恩賜賞) is a prestigious honor conferred to two of the recipients of the Japan Academy Prize.

Overviews
It is awarded in two categories: humanities and natural sciences. The Emperor and Empress visit the awarding ceremony and present a vase to the awardees.

Laureates

 * 2019 — Makoto Fujita (109th)
 * 2018 — Takeshi Matsuura, Chikashi Toyoshima (108th)
 * 2017 — Akira Hasegawa (seismologist) (107th)
 * 2016 — Kazutoshi Mori (106th)
 * 2015 — Hideo Hosono
 * 2014 — Isamu Akasaki
 * 2013 — Jun Matsuura, Yoshinori Tokura
 * 2012 — Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa, Keiichi Namba
 * 2011 — Akira Satake, Hideaki Miyata (101st)
 * 2010 — Akira Omote, Shinya Yamanaka (100th)
 * 2009 — Tetumi Murakami, Toru Eguchi (99th)
 * 2008 — Keiji Morokuma (98th)
 * 2007 — Senzo Hidemura, Shizuo Akira (97th)
 * 2006 — Shuh Narumiya (96th)
 * 2005 — Kazuya Kato (95th)
 * 2004 — Chikahi Suma, Takeshi Yasumoto (94th)
 * 2003 — Mitsuhiro Yanagida (93rd)
 * 2002 — Takahiro Fujimoto (Scientist), Sumio Iijima (92nd)
 * 2001 — Fumio Hayashi, Makoto Asashima (91st)
 * 2000 — Tsugitaka Sato, Shigekazu Nagata (90th)
 * 1999 — Susumu Fuma, Yoshito Kishi (89th)
 * 1998 — Toshio Yanagida (88th)
 * 1997 — Shigetada Nakanishi (87th)
 * 1996 — Tasuku Honjo (86th)
 * 1995 — Toru Mineya, Yoshio Fukao (85th)
 * 1994 — Makoto Kumada, Hideki Sakurai (84th)
 * 1993 — Issei Tanaka, Yasuo Tanaka (83rd)
 * 1992 — Chushichi Tsuzuki, Tadamitsu Kishimoto (82nd)
 * 1991 — Yoshinori Kobayashi (linguist), Akira Tonomura (81st)
 * 1990 — Koji Nakanishi (80th)
 * 1989 — Tomi Saeki, Yorio Hinuma (79th)
 * 1988 — Susumu Nishimura (78th)
 * 1987 — Toshio Fukuyama, Toshimitsu Yamazaki (77th)
 * 1986 — Masao Ito (76th)
 * 1985 — Ryo Sato (75th)
 * 1984 — Seizen Nakasone, Gakuzo Tamura (74th)
 * 1983 — Teruaki Mukaiyama (73rd)
 * 1982 — Kokiti Hara, Shizuo Kakutani (72nd)
 * 1981 — Yasuiti Nagano (71st)
 * 1980 — Yoshio Okada (cellular biologist) (70th)
 * 1979 — Yoshihide Kozai (69th)
 * 1978 — Kiyoshi Itō (68th)
 * 1977 — Shinji Takahashi (scientist) (67th)
 * 1976 — Takashi Sugimura (66th)
 * 1975 — Jikido Takasaki, Minoru Oda (65th)
 * 1974 — Tsugio Mikami, Kimishige Ishizaka (64th)
 * 1973 — Takuichi Takeshima, Jun Kondo (63rd)
 * 1972 — Tadashi Matsushita, Setsuro Ebashi (62nd)
 * 1971 — Mataji Miyamoto, Chushiro Hayashi (61st)
 * 1970 — Hidetaka Nakamura, Seizo Okamura (60th)
 * 1969 — Ryogo Kubo (59th)
 * 1968 — Tatsuo Nishida (58th)
 * 1967 — Kōsaku Yosida (57th)
 * 1966 — Egaku Mayeda (56th)
 * 1965 — Noriyuki Kojima (55th)
 * 1964 — Kiyoshi Mutō (54th)
 * 1963 — Takeo Nagamiya (53rd)
 * 1962 — Tomoichi Sasabuchi (52nd)
 * 1961 — Shigeo Okinaka (51st)
 * 1960 — Osamu Takata, Takuji Ito, Kazuo Yamasaki, Aki Uyeno, Taka Yanagisawa, Tsugio Miya (50th)
 * 1959 — Isao Imai (49th)
 * 1958 — Ryozo Niizeki (48th)
 * 1957 — Hajime Nakamura (47th)
 * 1956 — Masuzo Shikata, Isamu Tachi (46th)
 * 1955 — Yoshio Fujita (45th)
 * 1954 — Jitsuzo Tamura, Yukio Kobayashi (44th)
 * 1953 — Tomizo Yoshida (43rd)
 * 1952 — Seiichi Mizuno, Toshio Nagahiro (42nd)
 * 1951 — Yoshiyuki Toyama (41st)
 * 1950 — Shoichi Sakata (40th)
 * 1949 — Kakuji Goto (39th)
 * 1948 — Saburo Ienaga (38th)
 * 1947 — Takeo Matsumura (37th)
 * 1946 — Hakaru Masumoto (36th)
 * 1945 — Tokuhichi Mishima, Kyôji Funada, Takahiro Okuno (35th)
 * 1944 — Tomosaburo Ogata (34th)
 * 1943 — Junpei Shinobu, Tanemoto Furuhata, Hitoshi Kihara (33rd)
 * 1942 — Enku Uno (32nd)
 * 1941 — Eiichi Matsumoto (politician), Kinjiro Okabe, Yas Kuno (31st)
 * 1940 — Asaji Nose, Hideki Yukawa, Juro Horiuti (30th)
 * 1939 — Ken Ishikawa (Historian), Ken Kure (29th)
 * 1938 — No award (28th)
 * 1937 — Shinkichi Horiba, Yasujiro Niwa (27th)
 * 1936 — Hisayosi Ogawa, Takaoki Sasaki, Tomizo Yoshida (26th)
 * 1935 — Shimpei Ogura, Shinsho Hanayama (25th)
 * 1934 — Noboru Niida, Seitaro Tsuboi (24th)
 * 1933 — Ziro Tuzi, Bunsuke Suzuki (23rd)
 * 1932 — Kyōsuke Kindaichi, Kiyoo Wadati (22nd)
 * 1931 — Katsutada Sezawa (21st)
 * 1930 — Buntaro Adachi (20th)
 * 1929 — Toshi Shida (19th)
 * 1928 — Masao Kambe, Sōichi Kakeya (18th)
 * 1927 — Shigeru Kato, Yuji Shibata (17th)
 * 1926 — Yorisuke Numata, Yoshiaki Ozawa (16th)
 * 1925 — Keiki Yabuki, Nagaho Mononobe (15th)
 * 1924 — Kuniji Yashiro, Takaoki Sasaki (14th)
 * 1923 — Iichiro Tokutomi, Shigematsu Kakimura, Yasuhiko Asahina, Suekichi Kinoshita (13th)
 * 1922 — Toshio Takamine, Usaburo Yoshida (12th)
 * 1921 — Zennosuke Tsuji, Gennosuke Fuse (11th)
 * 1920 — Kaneyuki Miura, Mitsumaru Tsujimoto (10th)
 * 1919 — Jun Ishiwara (9th)
 * 1918 — Hidematsu Wada, Taiken Kimura, Keita Shibata (8th)
 * 1917 — Torahiko Terada, Sasaki Nobutsuna (7th)
 * 1916 — Toru Oya, Taisuke Hayashi, Ryokichi Inada, Yasushi Ido (6th)
 * 1915 — Hideyo Noguchi (5th)
 * 1914 — Sunao Tawara (4th)
 * 1913 — Ryosuke Muraoka, Kumakatsu Kosaka (3rd)
 * 1912 — Nagao Ariga, Yu Fujikawa, Sakugoro Hirase, Seiichiro Ikeno (2nd)
 * 1911 — Hisashi Kimura (1st)