Born
June 15, 1940 - Hiroshima, Japan

Biography
1963：B. Eng., Tokyo Institute of Technology
1968：Dr. Eng., Tokyo Institute of Technology
1968：Assistant Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
1973：Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
1979-1980：Guest Researcher, Bell Laboratories
1984-2001：Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
1995-1999：Director, Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2000：Director, Library of Tokyo Institute of Technology
2001：Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2001-2007：Executive Director, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2003-present：Chair, Microoptics Group, Japan Society of Applied Physics
2003-2004：President, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
2007-2012：President, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2022：Honorary Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2024：Honorary Professor, Institute of Science Tokyo

Member of Academic Societies
IEICE Honorary Member, Fellow
JSAP Distinguished Member, Fellow
Laser Society of Japan Fellow
IEEE Life Fellow
OPTICA Life Fellow
IEEE Life Fellow/ OPTICA Life Fellow/NAE Foreign Member

Honors
2000：Tokyo Metropolitan Government Merit Award (Technology Promotion Merit)
2001：Purple Ribbon Medal
2007：Machida City Merit Award (Culture and Arts Merit)
2013：Machida City Citizen Honor Award
2018：The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star
2021：Machida City Honorary Citizen
2022：Person of Cultural Merit (MEXT)

Prizes
1990：Ichimura Foundation for New Technology, Ichimura Prize for Science and Technology
(Lifetime Achievement Award)
1993：IEEE/LEOS, William Streifer Award
1995：Toray Science Foundation, Science and Technology Prize
1998：IEEE/LEOS+OSA, John Tyndall Award
1998：Asahi Foundation, The Asahi Prize
2002：Th Rank Foundation (UK), The Rank Prize
2003：Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Lifetime Achievement Award
2003：Fujiwara Science Foundation, The Fujiwara Prize
2003：IEEE, Daniel E. Noble Award
2006：Japan Society of Applied Physics, Achievement Award
2007：NEC C&C Foundation, The C&C Prize
2009：NHK Foundation, NHK Broadcast Cultural Award
2013：Franklin Institute, Franklin Medal/Bower Award for Science
2021：IEEE, Edison Medal
2024：OPTICA, Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus Quinn Prize
2024：Okawa Prize