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Here comes the precious document.

Meet distinguished Mr. Blair, US Navy Admiral and holder of the 1^st class.

Take a good look at the tray and a box!

Tradition is still on. And thunderous hurrah for that!

Meet distinguished Mr. Romanet, Chairman of the IFHA and holder of the 3^rd class.

Take a close look at the document!

Meet distinguished Mr. Notehelfer, the founding director of the Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies and a UCLA emeritus professor of history, holder of the 3^rd class.

Meet distinguished Mr. Eastwood holder of the 3^rd class.

Meet distinguished Mr. Kerr, British Judo Association president and judo expert from Edinburgh holder of the 4^th class. Really love this photo! I think deep inside Mr. Kerr is one of us. Don’t you think so?

Meet distinguished Mr. Tommy Lasorda – famous baseball player and holder of the 4^th class.

Document!

Meet distinguished Mr. Yue Kwan Cheuk, the Founding Chairman of the Japanese Studies Department at CUHK holder of the 4^th class.

It’s a pity that modern signs haven't kept women bows. I will miss that nice and beautiful detail.

Everything is unisex this days ... :(

Another photo.

Pay special attention to the color of the document – modern documents printed on a different paper (color resemble crème brûlée). Nice!

Meet distinguished Mrs. Fujimoto holder of the 5^th class.

Meet distinguished Mr. Fuyuume, Trustee of the Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center (SECC) holder of the 5^th class.

Photographic reconnaissance

Now photos of the holders of this modern type of order. Let’s start with the 5 class.

Meet distinguished Mr. Miyahara holder of the 5^th class.

Looks nice! Many changes! And the sign is very thick too (in comparison to his predecessors)! At least that what I’ve been told by the lucky person that met such badge in real world. To help with the differences here is a little photo compilation.

Meet 4th class obverse

What we’ve got here is photo 4th class modern rising son order in very nice quality (pity that there is no picture of reverse).

Not much. And photos isn’t top notch quality. But thanks to Cabinet Office employees anyway!

and 1st class

2nd class

3 and 4 class

5 and 6 class

The Decoration Bureau of the Cabinet Office – Falerist little helper

So this is what we got from the Japanese Decoration Bureau.

Hey mate! Give some rest to poor birds. Leave Kites alone!

Ok. Let’s talk about something else for a change.

There is one topic I am really interested in.

Modern version of order of the rising sun.

What is it? How it looks like? To whom it is handed over?

8 years in faleristic circulation and we have practically no information about this modern type.

Let’s try to do something about it.