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

November 21, 2016
Awards for Outstanding Skilled Workers from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare 2016
Master of special electronic parts manufacturing
Takashi Ohtsuka (IoT Devices Research Laboratories)

November 16, 2016
The 64th "Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion" President Award
Development and practical realization of a mobile network load reduction technology for accommodating a huge number and a variety of IoT devices
Takanori Iwai (System Platform Research Laboratories)
Satoru Yamano (Security Research Laboratories)
Masayoshi Shimizu (NTT DOCOMO, INC.)

November 16, 2016
The 64th Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Award
Development and practical realization of a mobile network load reduction technology for accommodating a huge number and a variety of IoT devices
Takanori Iwai (System Platform Research Laboratories)
Satoru Yamano (Security Research Laboratories)
Masayoshi Shimizu (NTT DOCOMO, INC.)

November 16, 2016
The 64th Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Award
Development of SDN controllers
Masayoshi Kobayashi (Corporate Technology Division)
Toshio Koide (Security Research Laboratories)
Yasunobu Chiba (System Platform Research Laboratories)

November 10, 2016
Local Commendation for Invention of Kanto 2016 "The Encouragement Prize for Invention"
Personal authentication system and personal authentication method (Patent No. 5418991/US 8553983)
Hitoshi Imaoka (Data Science Research Laboratories)

November 10, 2016
Local Commendation for Invention of Kanto 2016 "The Encouragement Prize for Invention"
Waveguide structure and printed-circuit board (Patent No.5380919/US 8779874)
Hiroshi Toyao (System Platform Research Laboratories)

November 10, 2016
Local Commendation for Invention of Kanto 2016 "The Encouragement Prize for Invention"
Multiuser wireless communication systems to achieve always-on services (Patent No.4830613)
Tsuguo Maru (Security Research Laboratories)

July 28, 2016
The 30th Advanced Technology Award "The Prize of the Minister of Economy,Trade and Industry"
Development of Fingerprint of Things Identification Technology and Global Image Recognition Solutions
Rui Ishiyama, Toru Takahashi, Yuta Kudo (Data Science Research Laboratories)
Shigekazu Fukuzawa, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi (Business Creation Division)
Keiichi Cho, Shinichi Amano (Carrier Services Division)

June 3, 2016
IPSJ "Kiyasu Special Industrial Achievement Award" 2015
Research and Development of Textual Entailment Recognition Technology and its Practical Applications
Masaaki Tsuchida, Toshiyasu Nakao (Big Data Strategy Division)
Kai Ishikawa, Daniel Silva Georg Andrade (Data Science Research Laboratories)
Daichi Iwata (Corporate Business Development Division)

April 20, 2016
The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology "The Prize for Creativity" 2016
Research on dry etching technology of fine structure on silicon substrate
Miyoshi Seki (System Platform Research Laboratories)

April 20, 2016
The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology "Prizes for Science and Technology" (Development Category) 2016
Development of 100 gigabit-per-second digital coherent optical network technologies
Kiyoshi Fukuchi (Intellectual Property Management Division), et al.