■Awards (Foreign)

1976:Bertram Eugene Warren Diffraction Physics Award
     (The American Crystallography Society)
2002:J.C.McGroddy Prize for New Materials
     (American Physical Society, USA)
2002:Agilent Europhysics Prize
     (European Physical Society)
2002:Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics
     (The Franklin Institute, USA)
2004:The Society’s Medal of Achievement in Carbon Science and Technology
     (The American Carbon Society, USA)
2005:Distinguished Scientist Award, Physical Sciences
     (Microscopy Society of America, USA)
2006:The John M. Cowley Medal 2006
     (The International Federation of Societies for Microscopy)
2007:Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography 2007
     (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
2007:2007 Balzan Prize for Nanoscience
     (International Balzan Prize Foundation, Italy)
2008:The 2008 Plueddemann Award
     (Case Western University, USA)
2008:The First Richard E. Smalley Research Award
     (The Electrochemical Society, USA)
2008:The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience 2008
     (The Kavli Foundation, Norway)
2008:The Prince of Asturias Award for Technical Scientific Research 2008
     (The Prince of Asturias Foundation, Spain)
2008:Economist Innovation Awards “No Boundaries”
     (The Economist, UK)
2011:China Nano Award
     (China Nano 2011, China)
2012:Distinguished Service Award
     (Miami 2012 Winter Symposium, USA)

■Awards (Japan)

1980:Seto Award
     (The Japanese Society of Electron Microscopy)
1985:The Crystallographic Society of Japan Award
     (The Crystallographic Society of Japan)
1985:Nishina Memorial Award
     (The Nishina Memorial Foundation, Japan)
1986:Minister Award
     (The Agency of Science and Technology, Japan)
1986:Best Paper Award
     (The Japan Society for Applied Physics)
1989:Ban Memorial Award
     (The Ban Memorial Committee, Japan)
1997:Asahi Award
     (The Asahi Shinbun Cultural Foundation, Japan)
1999:Tsukuba Prize
     (The Science and Technology Promotion Foundation of Ibaraki, Japan)
2001:Ishikawa Carbon Award
     (Ishikawa Carbon Science and Technology Promotion Foundation, Japan)
2002:Chunichi Bunka Award
     (Chunichi Shimbun Co., Ltd., Japan)
2002:The Mukai Award
     (Tokyo Ohka Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Technology, Japan)
2002:Japan Academy Award and Imperial Award
     (The Japan Academy)
2003:The JSAP Outstanding Achievement Award
     (The Japan Society of Applied Physics)
2003:Person of Cultural Merits
2004:Honda Frontier Award
     (Honda Memorial Foundation, Japan)
2007:Fujihara Award
     (The Fujihara Foundation of Science, Japan)
2009:Order of Cultural Merits

■Distinguished Lectures

2003:Van Horn Lecture
     (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
2007:Bodo von Borries Lecture 2007
     (Universitat Tubingen)
2008:DOW Lecture
     (Northwestern University, USA)
2008:Nagoya University Lecture
     (Nagoya University, Japan)
2008:W.H. Bragg Lecture 2008
     (University College London, UK)
2008:George Pimentel Memorial Lecture
     (U.C. Berkeley, USA)
2009:Tsinghua Global Vision Lecture
     (Tsinghua University, China)
2010:Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Speaker
     (MIT, USA)
2010:William Spitzer Lecture
     (University of Southern California, USA)
2011:The 2011 Evans Lecture
     (The Ohio State University, USA)