Honorary Doctorates, Prize and Awards

Honorary Doctorates

Waseda University confers the Honorary Doctorate on individuals who have distinction in academia, culture and other areas. Recipients include:

1	Tanzan Ishibashi	Japan	1957
2	Jawaharlal Nehru	India	1957
3	Konrad Adenauer	Germany	1960
4	Arturo Frondizi	Argentina	1961
5	Harlan H. Hatcher	U.S.A.	1962
6	Kenzo Matsumura	Japan	1962
7	Yoshiro Saeki	Japan	1962
8	Tachu Naito	Japan	1963
9	Utsubo (Michiharu) Kubota	Japan	1963
10	Tadashi Adachi	Japan	1965
11	Yasusaburo Hara	Japan	1965
12	Konosuke Matsushita	Japan	1965
13	Grayson L. Kirk	U.S.A.	1965
14	Eugene R. Black	U.S.A.	1968
15	Choe Du-son	Korea	1968
16	Shrimati Indira Gandhi	India	1969
17	Landrum R. Bolling	U.S.A.	1972
18	Togo Murano	Japan	1973
19	Hans-Heinrich Jescheck	Germany	1978
20	Masaru Ibuka	Japan	1979
21	Herbert von Karajan	Austria	1979
22	Francois Maurice Mitterrand	France	1982
23	James W. Fulbright	U.S.A.	1982
24	Kenzo Kono	Japan	1982
25	Liao Cheng Zhi	China	1982
26	Hans-Jakob Kruemmel	Germany	1982
27	Pierre Tabatoni	France	1982
28	Anatolii A. Logunov	U.S.S.R.	1982
29	Kim Sang-hyup	Korea	1982
30	Ungku Abdul Aziz	Malaysia	1982
31	Kim Sang-man	Korea	1985
32	Corazon C. Aquino	Philippines	1986
33	Sung Ping Hua	China	1988
34	Heinrich Pfeiffer	Germany	1989
35	Andrew B. Gonzales	Philippines	1989
36	John Manning Ward	Australia	1990
37	Jackson Holbrook Bailey	U.S.A.	1990
38	Rizou Takeuchi	Japan	1992
39	Ikuo Hirayama	Japan	1992
40	Patricio Aylwin	Chile	1992
41	Boutros Boutros-Ghali	Egypt	1993
42	Kurt Fleischhauer	Germany	1993
43	Kim Young-sam	Korea	1994
44	Nelson Rorihlahla Mandela	South Africa	1995
45	Isao Okawa	Japan	1996
46	Zhao Yun Jun	China	1997
47	Roman Herzog	Germany	1997
48	Sheikh Hasina	Bangladesh	1997
49	Fidel Valdez Ramos	Philippines	1997
50	Jiro Nemoto	Japan	1998
51	Alfonso Tiaoqui Yuchengco	Philippines	1998
52	Masahiro Shimizu	Japan	1998
53	Donald Keene	U.S.A.	1998
54	Jun Ru Ma	China	1998
55	Yu Shu Kao	Taiwan	1999
56	Michael Joseph Mooney	U.S.A.	1999
57	Bronis Baw Geremek	Poland	2000
58	Chong Yang-kim	Korea	2000
59	Jiar Chen	China	2000
60	Yi Gi-bek	Korea	2001
61	Yoshihiko Tsuchiya	Japan	2001
62	His Majesty King Harald V	Norway	2001
63	Albin Eser	Germany	2001
64	Kim Byung-kwan	Korea	2001
65	Sadako Ogata	Japan	2001
66	Megawati Soekarnoputeri	Indonesia	2001
67	Dazhong Wang	China	2002
68	Walter Cronkite	U.S.A.	2002
69	Takuya Okada	Japan	2002
70	Zhihong Xu	China	2002
71	Nobuyuki Idei	Japan	2002
72	Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo	Philippines	2002
73	Islam Abduganievich Karimov	Uzbekistan	2002
74	Vladimir I. Kurilov	Russia	2002
75	Ignacio Berdugo Gomez de la Torre	Spain	2002
76	Kim Jung-Bae	Korea	2003
77	Shenghong Wang	China	2003
78	Shengwu Xie	China	2003
79	Daniel O. Bernstine	U.S.A.	2003
80	Chen-Fu Koo	Taiwan	2003
81	Lee Kuan Yew	Singapore	2003
82	Hisashi Owada	Japan	2004
83	Richard Descoings	France	2005
84	Yuan Tseh Lee	Taiwan	2004
85	Joseph E. Stiglitz	U.S.A.	2004
86	Song Jian	China	2004
87	Euh Yoon-dae	Korea	2005
88	Binglin Gu	China	2005
89	Cho Suck-rai	Korea	2005
90	Weifang Min	China	2005
91	Carlos Ghosn	Brasil/France	2005
92	William Henry Gates III	U.S.A.	2005
93	Pan Yunhe	China	2005
94	Horst Albach	Germany	2005
95	Richard von Weizsacker	Germany	2005
96	Koo Doo-hwoi	Korea	2005
97	Mahathir Bin Mohamad	Malaysia	2005
98	Wangari Muta Maathai	Kenya	2006
99	Kouichi Sueyoshi	Japan	2006
100	Lee C.Bollinger	U.S.A.	2006
101	H.R.H. Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud,	Saudi Arabia	2006
102	Yoshio Utsumi	Japan	2006
103	Václav Klaus	Czech	2007
104	Nambaryn Enkhbayar	Mongolia	2007
105	Lawrence J. Lau	China	2007
106	Shin Choo Fong	Singapore	2007
107	Henry A. Kissinger	U.S.A.	2007
108	Syouichiro Toyota	Japan	2007
109	Jürgen Rüttgers	Germany	2007
110	Tullio De Mauro	Italy	2008
111	Park Jeong-gu	Korea	2008
112	Robert J. Shillman	U.S.A.	2008
113	Richard C. Levin	U.S.A.	2008
114	Al Gore	U.S.A.	2008
115	Kenneth J. Arrow	U.S.A.	2009
116	Gavin Brown	Australia	2009
117	Boonsithi Chokwatana	Thailand	2009
118	Stephen J. Trachtenberg	U.S.A.	2009
119	Hisashi Hieda	Japan	2010
120	Kōichirō Matsuura	Japan	2010
121	Masamitsu Sakurai	Japan	2010
122	Zhou Qifeng	China	2010
123	Lee Ki-su	Korea	2010
124	Jitsurō Terashima	Japan	2010
125	Lee Kun-Hee	Korea	2010
126	Wei Ing-Chou	Taiwan	2010

OKUMA MEMORIAL ACADEMIC PRIZE

This prize was established in 1958 in memory of the late Shigenobu Okuma, the founder of the University, to promote the arts and sciences. The Okuma Academic Commemorative Prize is awarded to faculty members whose research achievements have been recognized as distinguished and have greatly contributed to progress in academic studies. The Okuma Academic Encouragement Prize is awarded to faculty members who have obtained outstanding research results.

AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICES TO ART

This award was created in 1982 to commemorate the first centennial anniversary of the founding of the University to honor alumni over 70 years of age who have made a distinguished contribution to the promotion of art.

AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICES TO SPORTS

AZUSA ONO MEMORIAL AWARDS

In memory of the late Azusa Ono, who is long remembered with reverence as a co-founder of Waseda University and for the specific purpose of elevating the Waseda Spirit, the special fund for Azusa Ono Memorial Awards was created in 1959. Awards are presented during graduation ceremonies to individual students (or student groups) who have distinguished themselves or have made outstanding contributions in the fields of academic studies, art, and sports during the previous year. Azusa Ono Memorial Awards for Academic Studies are given to students whose dissertations, graduation theses or seminar reports have been recognized as outstanding in quality. Azusa Ono Memorial Awards for Art are given to students whose art productions have been recognized as outstanding in quality. Azusa Ono Memorial Awards for Sports are given to students who have established a world record or the equivalent in various athletic events.