2016 Spring Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals Decoration Services Major Titles Name age Address and Nationality Grand Cordon of the Order Contributed to strengthening *Deputy Prime Minister Abid Sharifov 76 Baku, of the Rising Sun Japan-Azerbaijan relations and *Co-Chairman of Joint Meeting of Azerbaijan promoting mutual understanding Japan-Azerbaijan Economic Committee and between the two countries. State Commission of Economic Cooperation (Azerbaijan) between Azerbaijan and Japan Grand Cordon of the Order Contributed to promoting friendly *Former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott 70 Washington DC, of the Rising Sun relations and mutual *President of The Brookings Institution U.S.A understanding between Japan and the United States (U.S.A.) Grand Cordon of the Order of Contributed to strengthening the *Board Governor, Okinawa Institute of Science Jerome Isaac Friedman 86 Boston, the Rising Sun relationship between Japan and and Technology Graduate University (OIST) Massachusetts, the United States in the fields of *Board Director and Council Member, Science U.S.A. science and technology， and Technology in Society (STS) forum and to founding and promoting *Institute Professor Emeritus of Massachusetts (U.S.A.) Okinawa Institute of Science and Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Graduate University *Nobel Laureate (Physics, 1990) (OIST) Grand Cordon of the Order Contributed to strengthening *Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Youcef Yousfi 74 Alger, of the Rising Sun relations and promoting mutual *Former Minister of Energy and Mines Alger, understanding between Japan and *Minister, Advisor to the President of the Algeria Algeria Republic, in charge of energy issues *Former President of Sonatrach, State-owned (Algeria) Ｈydrocarbon Corporation Gran Cordon of the Order Contributed to promoting cultural *Former Secretary General of the Ministry of Umberto Vattani 77 Roma, of the Rising Sun and economic exchange and Foreign Affairs Lazio, mutual understanding between *Former Diplomatic Advisor of the President Italy Japan and Italy of the Council of Ministers *President of Fondazione Italia Giappone (Italy) *Vice President of Italy-Japan Business Group *President of Venice International University *Former President of the Italian Trade Commission–ICE Grand Cordon of the Order Contributed to strengthening *Former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trinidad Jiménez Madrid of the Rising Sun bilateral relations and friendship Cooperation García-Herrera 53 Madrid between Japan and Spain *Former First Vicepresident of the Spain Parliamentary Association for the Friendship between Spain and Japan (Spain) 2016 Spring Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals Grand Cordon of the Order Contributed to promoting friendly *Vice President Mokgweetsi Eric 53 Gaborone, of the Rising Sun relations and mutual *Former Minister of Education and Skills Keabetse Masisi Botswana understanding between Japan and Development Botswana *Former Minister for Presidential Affairs and (Botswana) Public Administration in the Office of the President The Order of the Rising Sun, Contributed to strengthening science *Former Chairman of the United States Nuclear Richard Andrew Meserve 71 Falls Church, Gold and Silver Star and technology relations between Regulatory Commission Virginia, Japan and the United States *International Advisor of the Nuclear Regulation U.S.A. Authority *Executive Advisor to the Nuclear Risk Research (U.S.A.) Center of the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry The Order of the Rising Sun, Contributed to promoting *Former President of the U.S. Association of Constance Albanese 85 Bethesda, Gold and Silver Star legislative exchange, and Former Members of Congress Morella Maryland, mutual understanding between *Former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization U.S.A. Japan and the United States for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (U.S.A.) *Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives The Order of the Rising Sun, Contributed to promoting cultural Conductor Riccardo Muti 74 Ravenna, Gold and Silver Star exchange and mutual Emilia-Romagna, understanding between Japan and Italy Italy thorough music (Italy) The Order of the Rising Sun, Contributed to developing *Former Minister of Oil Thamir Abbas Ghadhban 71 Baghdad, Gold and Silver Star economic relations and promoting *Former Chairman of Prime Minister’s Al-Ghadhban Baghdad, mutual understanding between Advisory Commission Iraq Japan and Iraq *Energy Advisor to the Prime Minister (Iraq) The Order of the Rising Sun, Contributed to strengthening *Former Secretary, Expenditure, Ministry of Nand Kishore Singh 75 Patna, Gold and Silver Star relations and promoting mutual Finance Bihar, understanding between Japan and *Former Secretary, Revenue, Ministry of India India Finance *Former member, Planning Commission (India) *Former Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) Member, Senior Advisory Board, International High-Speed Rail Association The Order of the Rising Sun, Contributed to promoting *Former Rector of Sepuluh Nopember Institute Mohammad Nuh 56 Surabaya, Gold and Silver Star educational and academic of Technology East Java, exchanges and enhancing mutual *Former Minister for National Education Indonesia understanding between Japan and *Former Minister for Education and Culture Indonesia (Indonesia) 2016 Spring Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals The Order of the Rising Sun, Contributed to promoting friendly *Former Ambassador of Ukraine to Japan, Yurii Kostenko 70 Kyiv, Gold and Silver Star relations and mutual *Former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Ukraine understanding between Japan and *Former acting First Deputy Minister for Ukraine Foreign Affairs (Ukraine) The Order of the Rising Sun, Contribution to promoting * Former UK Co-chair, UK-Japan 21th Century Jack Cunningham 76 Stocksfield, Gold and Silver Star Japan-UK mutual understanding Group Northumberland and strengthening the bilateral * Former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster The United relation and Minister for Government Policy at the Kingdom Cabinet Office *Former Member of House of Commons (U.K.) * Member of House of Lords The Order of the Rising Sun, Contributed to promoting friendly *Former Ambassador of Canada to Japan Leonard John Edwards 69 Nepean, Gold and Silver Star relations and mutual *Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ontario, understanding between Japan and *Former Deputy Minister of International Canada Canada Trade (Canada) The Order of the Rising Sun, Constibuted to promoting friendly *Former Ambassador of Singapore to Japan Chew Tai Soo 75 Singapore Gold and Silver Star relations and mutual understanding *Former Coordinator of Singapore’s efforts to between Japan and Singapore support the Japanese People during the 2011 (Singapore) Tohoku Disaster The Order of the Rising Sun, Contributed to promoting *Former President of Royal Swedish Academy Barbara Cannon 69 Stockholm, Gold and Silver Star scientific and technological of Sciences Sweden exchanges and mutual *Former Professor at Stockholm University understanding between Japan and (Sweden and Sweden U.K.) The Order of the Rising Sun, Contributed to promoting Rector of the University of Salamanca Daniel Hernández Salamanca, Gold and Silver Star academic exchanges and mutual Ruipérez 62 Castillay León, understanding between Japan and Spain Spain (Spain) The Order of the Rising Sun, Contributed to promoting friendly *Former Chief of Staff, Royal Thai Navy Thanarat Ubol 61 Laksi District, Gold and Silver Star relations and defense exchanges *Former President, National Defense Academy Bangkok, between Japan and Thailand Alumni Association in Thailand Thailand (Thailand) The Order of the Rising Sun, Contributed to promoting friendly *Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Nakorn Silpa Archa 61 Sanambinnam, Gold and Silver Star relations and mutual Labor Nonthaburi, understanding and strengthening *Former Director General, Department of Skill Thailand economic relations between Japan Development, Ministry of Labor and Thailand *Former President, JICA Alumni Association (Thailand) of Thailand 2016 Spring Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals The Order of the Rising Sun, Contributed to promoting friendly *Former Ambassador of Tunisia to Japan Salah Hannachi 71 Ben Arous, Gold and Silver Star relations and mutual *President of the Association for Mégrine, understanding between Japan and Tunisian-Japan Friendship Tunisia Tunisia (Tunisia) The Order of the Rising Sun, Contributed to promoting friendly *Former Deputy Foreign Minister Wolfgang Ischinger 70 Berlin, Gold and Silver Star relations and mutual *Chairman of the Munich Security Conference Berlin, understanding between Japan and *Member of the international Global Zero Germany Germany Commission （Germany） The Order of the Rising Sun, Contributed to promoting friendly *Former Ambassador of Turkey to Japan Necati Utkan 73 Ankara, Gold and Silver Star relations and mutual *Board of Trustees of the Turkish Japanese Ankara, understanding between Japan and Foundation Turkey Turkey (Turkey) The Order of the Rising Sun, Contributed to promoting *Former President of TUSIAD Tuncay Ozilhan 68 Istanbul, Gold and Silver Star economic relations and promoting *Former Chairman of Turkish-Japanese Istanbul, mutual understanding between Business Council of DEIK (Chairman of Turkey Japan and Turkey Japan-Turkey Joint Economic Committee) *Chairman of Anadolu Group (Turkey) The Order of the Rising Sun, Contributed to strengthening *Former Chairman of