Awardee
Past recipients of the Kiyoshi Okazaki Award
| Awarded times (Year of Award) |
Name* | Affiliation at the time of award |
|---|---|---|
| 1st (2006) |
Hitoshi Osato | Nagoya Institute of Technology |
| Hiroshi Onishi Toshio Kawanami Kenichi Nishioka Kazuyo Inui Miyuki Takeuchi |
Nikkato corporation | |
| Teruhiko Nawata Eiichi Nishijima Hiroyuki Yanagi Ohshima Yoji Inui |
Tokuyama Corporation | |
| Tomotsugu Arai Toshihisa Nagasawa Kazunari Tsubota |
NEC TOKIN Corporation | |
| 2nd (2007) |
Nobuyuki Hiratsuka | Saitama University |
| Xiang Ming | CHEN Institute of Materials Physics and Engineering Zhejiang University | |
| Kazuhisa Hidaka Kazunobu Abe Yoshiaki Ikeda Takashi Shikida Shinji Ogama |
Sakai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. | |
| Hiroshi Ochiai Takashi Iwasaki Yoshinari Yasui |
LABO co.,ltd. | |
| 3rd (2008) |
Hajime Haneda | National Institute for Materials Science |
| Nobuyoshi Fujikawa | KYOCERA Corporation | |
| Yuki Narita Kenichi Otsuka Shuetsu Ogasawara Hiroshi Ishikawa |
JFE Mineral & Alloy Company,Ltd. | |
| Chika Amamiya Toshihiko Mankyu Junko Kurihara Hiroshi Yageta Masatomo Mizuta |
Automotive Energy Supply Corporation | |
| 4th (2009) |
Masatake Takahashi Yasuharu Onishi Yasuhiro Sasaki Ukyo Mori Nozomi Toki |
NEC Corporation |
| Takenobu Sakai | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | |
| Hisao Suzuki | Shizuoka University | |
| 5th (2010) |
Kanglyeol Ha | INNOTECH |
| Kazuo Shinozaki | Tokyo Institute of Technology | |
| Shigeki Sato | TDK Corporation | |
| Kouichi Hayashi Muneshiko Korida |
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | |
| 6th (2011) |
Hirotaka Ogawa | Meijo University |
| Tonshaku Tou Yuki Hamaguchi Yuichi Maida Haruo Yamamori |
HONDA ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. | |
| Masamichi Miyamoto Tsutomu Kishi Takashi Endo Takumi Murai |
Nippon Denko Co., Ltd. | |
| 7th (2012) |
Kenkichiro Kobayashi | Shizuoka University |
| Yoshiyuki Kato | Applied Micro Systems Inc. | |
| 8th (2013) |
Kazuhiko Echizenya Mitsuyoshi Matsushita Yoshihito Tachi Yosuke Iwasaki |
JFE Mineral & Alloy Company,Ltd. |
| Hiroshi Takagi | Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | |
| Shinichi Ono Kazuro Nagashima Mineto Iwasaki Hirotaka Takushima Masayuki Maekawa |
Shoei Chemical Inc. | |
| 9th (2015) |
Hiroshi Maiwa | Shonan Institute of Technology |
| Hiroshi Momoi Atsuyuki Nakano Takashi Suzuki Hidekazu Sato |
TDK Corporation | |
| Harunobu Sano | Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | |
| 10th (2016) |
Jun Akedo | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology |
| Kenji Kouno | Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. | |
| Hideki Sakai | Toho Titanium Co., Ltd. | |
| 11th (2017) |
Soshu Kirihara | Osaka University |
| Yutaka Doshida | ||
| 12th (2018) |
Hajime Nagata | Tokyo University of Science |
| Hitoshi Saita | TDK Corporation | |
| 13th (2019) |
Yoshikazu Akiyama | Ricoh Company, Ltd. |
| Morito Akiyama | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology | |
| 14th (2020) |
Keisuke Ishii | National Defense Academy |
| Masato Yamazaki | Niterra Co., Ltd. | |
| 15th (2021) |
Norifumi Fujimura | Osaka Prefecture University |
| 16th (2022) |
Masahito Kogawa | TDK Corporation |
| Hideya Maki Naoto Tanahashi Hisahiro Yasuda Takashi Amano |
Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. | |
| 17th (2023) |
Nobuo Nishioka Kousuke Nishimura Souichirou Ezaki |
Shoei Chemical Inc. |
| Takayuki Watanabe | Canon Inc. | |
| 18th (2024) |
Naoki Sakura Yuko Mitsuka Hiroya Muto Koji Nagano |
Shoei Chemical Inc. |
*If more than one person is listed in the name field, the award will be considered a group award.
**The award ceremony will now be held at the general meeting in June of the following year, instead of the previous December, so the award year has been moved back one year.