Awarded Members
The Japan America Society of Chicago would like to congratulate the below Society members who have received the prestigious The Order of the Sacred Treasure and The Order of the Rising Sun awards from the Japanese Government:
Thomas Masuda 1981 Fall
The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Rosette
Takeo Sugano 1987 Fall
The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Rays
Ralph Fujimoto 1993 Fall
The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Rosette
Hon. Adlai Stevenson 1994 Fall
The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star
Richard P. Soter 1997 Fall
The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon
Masaru Funai 2001 Spring
The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Rosette
Jack Beem 2002 Spring
The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Rosette
Clyde O. Bowles, Jr. 2003 Fall
The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon
Akiko Sugano 2005 Fall
The Order of the Rising Sun, Silver Rays
Clyde Dickey 2010 Spring
The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette
Shunichiro Kishioka 2010 Fall
The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays
Governor James R. Thompson 2014 Spring
The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star
Edward A. Grant 2015 Fall
The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette
Leo Melamed 2017 Fall
The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star
Dr. Phyllis I. Lyons 2018 Spring
The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette
Hon. Michael H. Moskow 2019 Spring
The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star
James A. McClung 2020 Spring
The Order of the Rising Sun, Silver Rays
Ralph A. Inforzato 2023 Spring
The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays
David D. Johnson, 2023 Fall
Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette