Awards
Award from Government
- 2004 Commendation by Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, Persons of Scientific and Technological Research Merits.
Award from Local Self-Government
- 1999 Research Promotion Award, Miyagi Science and Technology Promotion Fund, Miyagi, Japan.
Awards from Society
- 1999 Medal for Review Paper, The Laser Society of Japan, Osaka, Japan.
- 2001 The Promotion Award of Meta-Structure Photographs, The Japan Institute of Metals, Sendai, Japan.
- 2002 The Technology Development Award, Japan Fine Ceramics Association, Tokyo, Japan.
- 2005 Laser Research Development Award, the Laser Society of Japan, Osaka, Japan.
- 2008 The 24th Kenjiro Sakurai Memorial Prize, The Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association (OITDA), Tokyo, Japan.
- 2010 Medal for Review Paper, Original Category, The Laser Society of Japan, Osaka, Japan.
- 2013 Laser Research Development Award, the Laser Society of Japan, Osaka, Japan.
- 2019 OSA, SPIE, IEEE, IAPLE, and LSJ Fellow
Awards from Company
- 2009 Patent Award 2009 (US Patent: US7106496 "Element for wavelength conversion and/or optical computing"), Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
Overseas Award
- 2010 OSA Fellow Award, The Optical Society (OSA), Washington D.C., USA.
- 2012 SPIE Fellow Award, The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), WA, USA.
- 2014 IEEE Fellow Award, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), NJ, USA.