JapanX Posted February 18, 2012 Posted February 18, 2012 This thread will be a continuation of this one http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/51191-order-of-rising-sun-vintage-2003/
JapanX Posted February 18, 2012 Author Posted February 18, 2012 Colorado State Professor Emeritus Anthony Tu was awarded with 3rd class of rising sun order in 2009. He’s expertise about a deadly nerve gas helped the Japanese identify and catch suspects in the sarin gas attacks in the 1990s. Japanese officials used Tu's assistance to analyze the sarin and its byproducts to identify the manufacturing facility where the religious sect Aum Shinrikyo produced 70 tons of the deadly nerve gas. Tu’s knowledge of chemicals produced from the degradation of sarin in soils was instrumental in linking Aum Shinrikyo definitively with the manufacture and use of sarin, evidence that helped convict the sect's leader, Shoko Asahara, who was later sentenced to be hanged. In 2002 he even wrote a book about his experience titled “Chemical Terrorism: Horrors in Tokyo Subway and Matsumoto City.”
JapanX Posted February 18, 2012 Author Posted February 18, 2012 Director emeritus of RIKEN BNL Research Center T. D. Lee was awarded with 2nd class of rising sun order in 2007.
JapanX Posted February 18, 2012 Author Posted February 18, 2012 Russian film director Aleksandr Sokurov was awarded with 4th class of rising sun order in December 2011. The reason – his film "The Sun". “The Sun” was the third film in Sokurov's tetralogy. The first two films were about Adolf Hitler (“Moloch”) and Vladimir Lenin (“Telets” or “Tarus”) and the last one (which just came out) is “Faust”.
JapanX Posted February 18, 2012 Author Posted February 18, 2012 (edited) Words of gratitude Edited February 18, 2012 by JapanX
JapanX Posted February 18, 2012 Author Posted February 18, 2012 “The Sun” is about the last days of Emperor Hirohito's (Issey Ogata) reign. Shot in 35 millimeter in the filmmaker's preferred brackish tones, “The Sun” traces Hirohito as he wanders about his compound engaged in meaningless rituals and surrounded by minders who are as much his guards as his servants… Very good movie.
JapanX Posted February 18, 2012 Author Posted February 18, 2012 But even better film (from my subjective point of view) will be “Tarus”. Set in 1923 in the newly created USSR, state founder Lenin (Leonid Mozgovoy) is convalescing from a stroke at age 51 in his dacha. Surrounded by watchful guards, a live-in doctor, his wife, and his sister, this formerly titanic figure lives as a virtual prisoner after the deterioration of his health… This one simply a masterpiece...
JapanX Posted February 18, 2012 Author Posted February 18, 2012 Next will be former commanding officer of U.S. Fleet Activities in Sasebo, Japan Navy Capt. Tilghman D. Payne awarded with 3rd class of rising sun order in 2008. The reason behind the awarding “his work in building relationships between United States and Japanese Forces”. received the award from Japan's Chief of Maritime Self-Defense Forces Adm. Keiji Akahoshi in Washington.
JapanX Posted February 18, 2012 Author Posted February 18, 2012 And another sailor, but this time top brass sailor. Adm. Masahiko Sugimoto, Chief of staff, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, presents (January 11, 2012!) Adm. Patrick M. Walsh, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet, with the Grand Cordon of the Order of Rising Sun. Grand Gordon was awarded by the government of Japan for his service as the U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander. At last we have photo of the document with Akihito signature!
JapanX Posted February 18, 2012 Author Posted February 18, 2012 Our next hero is Scottish karateka. Mr. Ronald Watt, Aberdeen, 8th Dan WKC (World Karate Confederation), has been awarded 5th class of the Rising Sun order (25th May 2010).
JapanX Posted February 18, 2012 Author Posted February 18, 2012 Order close up (with modern style rosette you can upgrade yours 5th class to 4th class in a second )
JapanX Posted February 18, 2012 Author Posted February 18, 2012 (edited) And another karateka, but this time straight from Japan - Sensei Shugoro Nakazato. He was awarded 5th class of rising sun order November 4, 2007. Edited February 18, 2012 by JapanX
JapanX Posted February 18, 2012 Author Posted February 18, 2012 Now let’s turn our attention to academicals. Please welcome St. Petersburg University Professor M.N. Bogolubov. Holder of 3rd class rising sun order (December 2, 2009). “For achievements in Japanese language studies and teaching”
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