Latest Awards
Parentheses indicates division he/she belonged to at time of award

March 20, 2015
The 60th Maejima Hisoka Prize
(awarded by Public Interest Corporation Communications Culture Association)
Research and development of 100 gigabit-per-second digital coherent optical network technologies which enables fast optical channel recovery
Kiyoshi Fukuchi (Green Platform Research Laboratories), et al.

February 17, 2015
The 3rd JATES Technology Management & Innovation Awards "The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology Award"
Contribution for realization of safe and secure society by the world's No.1 accurate facial recognition technology
Hitoshi Imaoka, Toshinori Hosoi, Masato Ishii (Information and Media Processing Laboratories)

November 21, 2014
The 62nd Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Award (OHM Technology Award)
Development and practical implementation of super high definition video compression
Keiichi Chono (Information and Media Processing Laboratories)
Kensuke Shimofure (Broadcast and Media Division)
Noriaki Suzuki (Green Platform Research Laboratories)

November 21, 2014
The 62nd Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Award (OHM Technology Award)
Development and practical implementation of error correction coding method for terrestrial microwave communication systems
Norifumi Kamiya (Cloud System Research Laboratories)
Eisaku Sasaki (Mobile Wireless Solutions Division)

October 14, 2014
FY2014 Industrial Standardization Awards, The Encouragement Award in Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau Director-General's Award
Contribution for international standardization in JTC1/SC29/WG11(MPEG)
Keiichi Chono (Information and Media Processing Laboratories)

July 31, 2014
The 28th Advanced Technology Award "The Prize of the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry"
Development of energy storage solutions using innovative lithium-ion batteries
Ikiko Yamazaki, Daisuke Kawasaki (Smart Energy Research Laboratories)
Hideaki Saito, Masayuki Noguchi (Energy Systems Division)

July 8, 2014
National Commendation for Invention "Invention Prize" 2014
Invention of pattern recognition by a new learning method (patent No. 3452160)
Atsushi Sato (Information and Media Processing Laboratories)

April 15, 2014
The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology "Prizes for Science and Technology" (Development Category) 2014
Development of High-Quality Audio Coding Algorithms
Toshiyuki Nomura, Akihiko Sugiyama (Information and Media Processing Laboratories)
Masahiro Iwadare (Intellectual Property Management Division)
Osamu Shimada (1st Government and Public Solutions Division)
Masahiro Serizawa (Intellectual Property Management Division)

April 15, 2014
The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology "The Young Scientists' Prize" 2014
Research on software rejuvenation and life-extension methods for server virtualized system
Fumio Machida (Knowledge Discovery Research Laboratories)

April 14, 2014
The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology "The Prize for Creativity" 2014
Improvement in manufacturing process of magnetic random access memory
Keiichi Tokutome (Green Platform Research Laboratories)