"Order of the Rising Sun"

Robert Garfias male, 77 years old: University of Washington, Japanese court music, The Social Dynamics and Complexity Group, Japanese culture, Order of the Rising Sun recipient, OrderoftheRisingSun…University of California, Irvine faculty, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Los Angeles; Robert Garfias (b. 1932) is a key figure in ethnomusicology and musicology. He is a professor of Anthropology and a member of The Social Dynamics...

Kano Jigoro male, deceased (1938): judo founder, Olympic sport, relative ranking, kendo, OrderoftheRisingSun, Educator…ministry of education, University of TOKYO; Kano Jigoro was the founder of judo. Judo was the first Japanese martial art to gain widespread international recognition, and the first to become...

Akira Yoshizawa male, deceased (2005): Origami artist, geometrical, Isao Honda, wet-folding, Asahi Graph, Origami Shuko…OrderoftheRisingSun; Akira Yoshizawa was considered to be the grandmaster of origami. Born the son of a dairy farmer in Kaminokawa, in rural Tochigi Prefecture, Japan....

Yoshitaro Nomura male, deceased (2005): death by pneumonia, Yoshitarō Nomura, film director, film noir, keio university, asakusa…The Idiot, OrderoftheRisingSun; Yoshitarō Nomura (野村芳太郎 "Nomura Yoshitarō", born 23 April 1919 in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan-8 April 2005 in Shinjuku, Tokyo. He was the son of Hotei Nom...

Hisaichi Terauchi male, deceased (1945): Field Marshal of Japan, Rikugun Shikan Gakko, Ministry of War of Japan, OrderoftheRisingSun, Imperial Japanese Military Academy, War Minister…prime minister of japan; Count (8 August 1879 - 12 June 1946) was a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army and Commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army Group...

Earl Miner male, deceased (2004): UCLA, Princeton University faculty, Hightstown, professor, New York Times, Williams College…OrderoftheRisingSun, University Of California-Los Angeles, Professor of English, University of Minnesota, Milton Society of America; Earl Miner (1926 - April 17, 2004) was a professor at Princeton University, and a noted scholar of Japanese literature and especially Japanese...

Sultan Ibrahim male, deceased (1959): World War I, maharaja, johor, advisor, menteri besar, malayan union…OrderoftheRisingSun, Monarch of Johor; Almarhum Sultan Sir Ibrahim Iskandar Al-Masyhur ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Abu Bakar was the second sultan of modernized Johor, in Malaysia. Born Che...

Willy Vande Walle male: Catholic University of Leuven, japanologist, Japanese Studies, OrderoftheRisingSun; Willy Vande Walle is a professor of Japanese Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. On June 9th 2006, he received the Order of the...

Mikhail Piotrovsky male, 65 years old: Minor Planet, Alumni of St. Petersburg State University, Iron Curtain, Leningrad University, OrderoftheRisingSun, Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky…Order of Honor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the State Hermitage Museum, Director of the State Hermitage; Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky is Director of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. He was born in Yerevan on 9 November 1944 to Boris...

Gustave Emile Boissonade male, deceased (1910): international law, meiji era, criminal law, civil law, French, University of Paris…University of Grenoble, Ministry Of Justice, OrderoftheRisingSun, Doctorate of law, Taiwan Expedition of 1874; Gustave Emile Boissonade de Fontarabie was a French legal scholar, responsible for drafting much of Japan's civil code during the Meiji Era, and...

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