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: September 29 2023

Decision of Honda Prize 2023 Laureate
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.) have been selected to receive the Honda Prize 2023.

: August 10 2023

"The Honda Foundation Annual Activity Report 2022-23" has been published.
We have compiled this annual report for your review of our 2022-23 activities in more details. Please have a read through it and let us know whatever you think we can do to make things better.

: May 31 2023

The 3rd Award Ceremony for Honda Y-E-S Award in Bangladesh took place in Dhaka on May 31, 2023

April 10 2023

We will be relocating to our new office starting on April 10.

: March 29 2023

Honda Foundation Report No. 183 has been uploaded.
The 43rd Honda Prize Commemorative Lecture
From Curiosity-Driven Science to Future Technologies
Dr. Hidetoshi Katori

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.

September 30 2020

Honda Prize 2020 goes to Dr. Henning Kagermann, Chair of the Board of Trustees, National Academy of Science and Engineering, for pioneering the principles of Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industrie 4.0) and made a significant impact on the world.

September 20 2019

Honda Prize 2019 goes to Dr. Geoffrey E. Hinton, Professor Emeritus, the University of Toronto and Chief Scientific Advisor, Vector Institute, for his pioneering research in the field of deep learning in artificial intelligence and his contribution to practical application of the technology.

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