Awards on research activities

IEEE, IEEE Milestone
Color Plasma Display

The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd., The Prime Minister's Award as part of the 53rd Japan Industrial Technology Awards
Superconducting Quantum Computer-Based Ultra-High Performance Computing Platform for Enterprise Cloud Release, Fujitsu, RIKEN, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Osaka University, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Commendation for Science and Technology by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Awards for Science and Technology (Research Category)
Research into Paper Encryption Technology, Taizou Anan, Kensuke Kuraki, Shouhei Nakagata

Ichimura Foundation for New Technology, The Ichimura Prize in Industry for Distinguished Achievement
Development and commercialization of charge reducing materials for electron beam lithography, Masashi Uzawa (Mitsubishi Chemical), Takahiro Hiromatsu (HOYA Group), Keiji Watanabe (formerly Fujitsu), titles omitted

Commendation for Science and Technology by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Awards for Science and Technology (Science and Technology Promotion Category)
Promotion of citizen-participatory research on real-time disaster evacuation support system, Yusuke Oishi, Takashi Furumura (The University of Tokyo), Fumihiko Imamura (Tohoku University), Yoshiteru Mihara (Kawasaki City), titles omitted

Young Scientists' Award by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Social Systems Design Through Integration of Mathematical Sciences and Social Sciences, Kotaro Ohori

IEEE, IEEE Milestone
High Electron Mobility Transistor, HEMT

Commendation for Science and Technology by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Prizes for Science and Technology (Public Understanding Promotion Category)
Promoting understanding among young people of the future made possible by supercomputers, Yoshimasa Kadooka

Commendation for Science and Technology by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Prizes for Science and Technology (Development Category)
Development of configuration technology for large-scale x86 clusters, Shuji Yamamura (Fujitsu), Kohta Nakashima, Akira Hosoi (Fujitsu), Naoto Fukumoto, Masahiro Miwa

Inamori Foundation, 2017 Kyoto Prize (Advanced Technology, Electronics)
Invention of the High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) and Its Development for the Progress of Information and Communications Technology, Takashi Mimura

Japan's Medal of Honour with Purple Ribbon
Development of encoding technology and transmission equipment for digital video, Akira Nakagawa

Commendation for Science and Technology by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Prizes for Science and Technology (Research Category)
Research into High-Speed Data Transmission Circuits for Implementing High-Performance ICT Systems, Yoichi Koyanagi, Takuji Yamamoto, Yasuo Hidaka (Fujitsu Laboratories of America)

Commendation for Science and Technology by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Prizes for Science and Technology (Development Category)
Development of Advanced Noise-Suppression Technology Using Microphone Arrays, Naoshi Matsuo, Shoji Hayakawa, Chikako Matsumoto, Junichi Watanabe (Transtron), Hiroshi Katayama (Fujitsu)

Commendation for Science and Technology by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Prizes for Science and Technology (Research Category)
Research in Electronic Ceramic Materials and Processes for Microelectronics Packaging Technology, Yoshihiko Imanaka

Commendation for Science and Technology by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Prizes for Science and Technology (Development Category)
Development of a System Giving Wraparound, 3D View of Vehicles, Seiya Shimizu (formerly Fujitsu Laboratories), Masami Mizutani, Jun Kawai, Tohru Tsuruta, Hiroshi Yamada (Fujitsu Ten)

Ichimura Industrial Award of Japan (*3), Contribution Prize
Application of a Wraparound-view 3D Monitor Technology for Driver Safety and Peace of Mind, Masami Mizutani, Seiya Shimizu, Kazumasa Kameda (Fujitsu Ten)

*3: Bestowed to researchers or groups that make a significant contribution to industry by developing exceptional industrial technology in Japan

Ichimura Industrial Award of Japan, Contribution Prize
Development of digital video transmission system, Akira Nakagawa, Hideki Miyasaka (Fujitsu), Tatsushi Otsuka (Fujitsu Semiconductor)

Young Scientists' Prize by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (links to website of Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
Research on single photon emitters based on telecommunication-wavelength quantum dots, Toshiyuki Miyazawa

Commendation for Science and Technology by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Prizes for Science and Technology (Development Category)
Development of digital video coding LSI and transmission system, Akira Nakagawa, Tatsushi Otsuka (Fujitsu Semiconductor), Hideki Miyasaka (Fujitsu), Yasuhiro Watanabe, Shunsuke Kobayashi (Fujitsu Kyushu Network Technologies)

Ichimura Industrial Award of Japan (*3), Contribution Prize
Development of 6-Dimensional Mesh/Torus Interconnect for Massively Parallel Supercomputer, Yuichiro Ajima (Fujitsu), Koichiro Takayama, Kenichi Miura (Fujitsu)

*3: Bestowed to researchers or groups that make a significant contribution to industry by developing exceptional industrial technology in Japan

Commendation for Science and Technology by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Prizes for Science and Technology (Development Category)
Development of Speech Quality Improvement Technology for Mobile Phones, Masanao Suzuki, Takeshi Otani, Taro Togawa, Yasuji Ota (Fujitsu), Kaori Endo (Fujitsu)

Commendation for Science and Technology by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Prizes for Science and Technology (Research Category)
Research on novel protein detection technologies constructed with DNA material, Shozo Fujita (Fujitsu Asia), Kenji Arinaga (currently on assignment at Technical University Munich), Tsuyoshi Fujihara (Fujitsu Asia)

Commendation for Science and Technology by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Prizes for Science and Technology (Development Category)
Palm Vein Authentication for Banking System Solutions, Morito Shiohara (Fujitsu), Toshio Endo, Takahiro Aoki, Tomohiko Yozue (Fujitsu), and Yutaka Katsumata (Fujitsu Frontech)

Okochi Memorial Technology Award of Japan (*1)
Technical innovation in ArF resist material for LSI production to 90nm-era and beyond, Satoshi Takechi (Fujitsu Semiconductor), Isamu Hanyu (Fujitsu Semiconductor), Koji Nozaki, Ei Yano, Naomichi Abe (Fujitsu Semiconductor (formerly Fujitsu Microelectronics))

*1: Bestowed to an individual or group, for noteworthy industrial-based achievements, based on an exceptional invention or idea derived from industrial engineering or manufacturing technologies

Young Scientists' Prize by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Research on telecom-band single photon sources for quantum key distribution, Kazuya Takemoto

Commendation for Science and Technology by Japan's Minister of Education,Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Prizes for Science and Technology (Development Category)
Development of Content Protection Technology for Digital TV receivers on PCs, Kuniaki Saito (Fujitsu), Takeshi Yamaguchi (Fujitsu), Keiichi Ushiwaka (Fujitsu), Kiyoshi Kohiyama, Hiroyuki Fujiyama (Fujitsu Microelectronics)

Young Scientists' Prize by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Nanometrology of two-dimensional carrier profile in scaled MOS transistors, Hidenobu Fukutome

Commendation for Science and Technology by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Prizes for Science and Technology (Research Category)
Development of Quantum dot lasers for optical communication, Mitsuru Sugawara, Yoshiaki Nakata, et. al.

Young Scientists' Prize by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Research on side channel attacks and countermeasures in information security, Tetsuya Izu

Young Scientists' Prize by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Research on transmission lines for millimeter-wave integrated circuits, Satoshi Masuda

Okochi Memorial Production Special Award (*2)
Development of Synthetic Ferrimagnetic Media (SFM), Fujitsu Laboratories, Fujitsu, Yamagata Fujitsu

*2: Bestowed to an individual or group, for particularly noteworthy industrial-based achievements, enabled by exceptional innovative research based on industrial engineering

Commendation for Science and Technology by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Prizes for Science and Technology (Research Category)
Research and development of high-performance chemically amplified ArF excimer laser resists, Satoshi Takechi (Fujitsu), Isamu Hanyu (Fujitsu), Naomichi Abe (Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography System Development Association), Koji Nozaki, Ei Yano

Okochi Memorial Award of Japan
Development and application of multi-Gigabit/s CMOS high-speed interface, Hirotaka Tamura, Toshiaki Sakai (Fujitsu), K. Gotoh, Hideki Ishida, Kazuhiro Terashima (Fujitsu LSI Solutions)

Japan's Medal of Honour with Purple Ribbon (links to website of Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
Development of the color plasma display panel, Tsutae Shinoda

Commendation by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Distinguished Researcher
Research on ferroelectric memory operation system, Shoichi Masui

Japan's Medal of Honour with Purple Ribbon (links to website of Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
Development of high-performance surface acoustic wave filter, Yoshio Satoh

Commendation by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Distinguished Researcher
Research on phase-conjugate optical communications and ultra high-speed optical 3R-regenerators, S. Watanabe

Ichimura Industrial Award of Japan (*3), Meritorious Achievement Prize
Development and application of Terabit-class ultra high-capacity wavelength-division multiplexing system, Takayuki Okino (Fujitsu), Daisuke Maruhashi (Fujitsu), Nobuhide Yamaguchi

*3: Bestowed to researchers or groups that make a significant contribution to industry by developing exceptional industrial technology in Japan

Commendation by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Distinguished Researcher
Research into accelerating and improving functionality of full-text search systems, Isao Namba

Okochi Memorial Technology Award of Japan (*1)
Development and application of nitrided silicon technology in LSI manufacturing, Takashi Itoh, Haruo Tsuchikawa (Fujitsu), M. Kanazawa (Fujitsu), K. Takasaki

*1: Bestowed to an individual or group, for noteworthy industrial-based achievements, based on an exceptional invention or idea derived from industrial engineering or manufacturing technologies

Japan's Medal of Honour with Purple Ribbon (links to website of Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
Development of high electron mobility transistors, Takashi Mimura

IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award
Contributions to and leadership in the development of self-aligned refractory-gate gallium arsenide MESFET integrated circuits, Naoki Yokoyama