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March 25 2026

Honda Foundation Report No. 193 has been uploaded.

The 46th Honda Prize Commemorative Lecture
Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL):
Born Small and Grown Big - From Smartphones to huge Data Centers -

Dr. Kenichi Iga

March 09 2026

Honda Foundation Report No. 192 has been uploaded
"Beyond Common Sense”—The Beginning of the Universe: From Materialism to Emptiness"
Dr. Shoji Asai

Director General, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization,

Inter-University Research Institute Corporation

February 17 2026

Honda Foundation Report No. 191 has been uploaded
"The Frontiers of Quantum Dot Research—Its Birth, Evolution and Prospects"
Dr. Yasuhiko Arakawa

Specially Appointed Professor/Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo
Director, Honda Foundation

: February 07 2026

The Twelveth Award Ceremony for Honda Y-E-S Award in Myanmar took place in Yangon on February 7, 2026

: February 06 2026

The 18th Award Ceremony for Honda Y-E-S Award in Cambodia took place in Phnom Penh on February 6, 2026

September 09 2025

Honda Prize 2025 goes to Dr. Kenichi Iga, Honorary Professor, Institute of Science Tokyo,
18th President of former Tokyo Institute of Technology for pioneering contributions to the conception and development of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL), and leadership in its practical application, which have significantly advanced the optoelectronics industry and the information society.

September 30 2024

Honda Prize 2024 goes to Dr. James G. Fujimoto, Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Research Laboratory of Electronics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology（MIT, U.S.A.） for his research group’s development of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). The prize also acknowledges his consistent contribution to the commercialization and clinical translation of OCT in ophthalmology, cardiology, and biomedical research through multidisciplinary collaborative research.

September 29 2023

Honda Prize 2023 goes to Dr. Masato Sagawa(an advisor to Daido Steel. Co. Ltd,. and the president, NDFEB Corporation) and Dr. John J. Croat (former president, John Croat Consulting Inc.) for their independent inventions of “neodymium(Nd-Fe-B) magnet” recognized as the strongest on Earth, which significantly supports our daily lives.

September 30 2022

Honda Prize 2022 goes to Dr. Hidetoshi Katori, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, (Principal Investigator/Team Leader, RIKEN) for inventing the “optical lattice clock” which is 1,000 times more accurate than conventional atomic clocks and deviates only one second in 30 billion years.

September 30 2021

Honda Prize 2021 goes to Dr. Alim Louis Benabid, Professor Emeritus of Joseph Fourier University and Chairman of the Board of Clinatec, Edmond J. Safra Biomedical Research Center, for his contribution to pioneering research and practical application of deep brain stimulation (DBS) to the treatment of involuntary movement caused by progressive Parkinson’s disease.

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