The is the highest award for adult leaders in the Scout Association of Japan. It is awarded by the Chief Scout of Japan, awarded for eminent achievement and meritorious service to the Association for a period of at least twenty years. It may be awarded to any member of a Scout Association affiliated with the World Organization of the Scout Movement.
The award consists of a medallion depicting a stylized golden pheasant, suspended from a white ribbon with two red stripes worn around the neck. The attendant uniform emblem, worn over the pocket, consists of two red stripes on a white background with a 5 mm golden device of the Japanese Scout emblem. Background
The original Japanese list does not assign strict chronological numbering, rather by category. The first category is political, and in honorific order as number 1 is the Heisei emperor, although he received the award chronologically third in that category. The second category are Japanese Scouters, again starting with number 1 Michiharu Mishima. The third category are non-Japanese recipients, and again the list cycles back to 1, being Martin B. Williams. In addition, Akira Watanabe is out of numerical sequence.
Posthumously conferred are marked with (‡).
Recipients Award number Year awarded Name Office Representing 1 1952 Martin B. Williams Founder of Tokyo 4 Scout group United States2 1952J. S. Wilson United Kingdom3 1953Richard Nixon United States 1 1953 Michiharu Mishima first president of the Boy Scout Association of Japan 2 1953Jinnojō Hayashi (林 甚之丞) 3 1954Sano Tsuneha Elder (early Scouting movement notable) 4 1955Motojirō Ozaki member of the Diet ‡5 1955Chūhachi Nakano (中野 忠ハ) ‡6 1956Gotō Shinpei first Chief Scout of Japan ‡7 1956Yoshinori Futara co-founder of the Boy Scouts of Japan in April 1922; General Commissioner 4 1956Daniel Spry Canada5 1957Olave Baden-Powell United Kingdom6 1957Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell United Kingdom7 1957Arthur A. Schuck United States8 1957John Thurman United Kingdom9 1957Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Iran10 1957Walter Nash New Zealand8 1959Hidesaburō Kurushima President of the Boy Scouts of Japan 11 1959Jorge B. Vargas Philippines12 1964Constantine II of Greece Greece13 1964Ellsworth Hunt Augustus United States9 1966Taizō Ishizaka Chairman of the National Board of the Boy Scouts of Japan 14 1966Gabriel DazaCo-founder Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP). BSP President 1961-1968 Philippines3 1967Shigeru Yoshida Prime Minister 15 1967Kim Jong-pil Korea Scout Association President ? - June 6, 1969 Korea16 1968Gustavo J. Vollmer Venezuela17 1968Irving J. Feist United States4 1970Eisaku Satō Prime Minister 1 1971 Akihito Crown Prince of Japan 18 1971Charles Dymoke Green, Jr. United Kingdom19 1971William Durant Campbell United States10 1973Saburō Matsukata President of the Boy Scouts of Japan ‡20 1973Antonio C. Delgado Philippines21 1974Gerald Ford United States22 1975Elizabeth II United Kingdom23 1975Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh United Kingdom11 1978Kōgorō Uemura Chairman of the National Board of the Boy Scouts of Japan 12 1979Akira Watanabe President of the Boy Scouts of Japan 24 1978Birendra of Nepal Nepal13 1978Ichirō Terao Chairman of the National Board of the Boy Scouts of Japan 14 1978Yoshio Kobayashi (小林 芳夫) 5 1979Takeo Fukuda Prime Minister 15 1979Seiichiro Furuta Scouting pioneer 16 1979Tadatsugu Ozaki (尾崎 忠次) Scouting pioneer 25 1980Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden Sweden6 1980Masayoshi Ōhira Prime Minister 7 1981Yoshio Sakurauchi President of the Scout Parliamentary Caucus 17 1981Chubee Kagita General Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of Nippon 18 1981Jusaburō Kawai (河合 寿三郎) Scouting pioneer ‡26 1983Ronald Reagan United States19 1983Katsuji Yamaguchi (山口 勝治) Scouting pioneer ‡20 1985Gen Hirose 8 1985Ken Harada President of the Scout Parliamentary Caucus 21 1985Yōsuke Hirayama (平山 羊介) 9 1986Yasuhiro Nakasone Prime Minister 27 1987László Nagy Switzerland22 1987Sei Yagi (Yagi Kiyoshi (?)ハ木 清) 23 1988Masao Murata (村田 正雄) General Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of Japan 24 1988Toshiwo Doko President? (Sōsai) ‡2 1989Naruhito Crown Prince of Japan 25 1989Masaru Ibuka 26 1989Yorihiro Matsudaira International Commissioner 27 1989Muneyoshi Tokugawa ‡28 1989Lee Teng-hui Republic of China28 1990Mitsuji Hama (浜 光治) 29 1990Sadaharu Hisamatsu (久松 定治) 30 1990Yoshio Hattori ‡31 1991Sōichirō Honda 32 1991Shōzō Takahashi (高橋 正蔵) 33 1991Tarō Matoba (的場 太郎) 10 1991Noboru Takeshita Prime Minister 29 1992Prince Edward, Duke of Kent United Kingdom11 1992Ryūtarō Hashimoto Prime Minister 34 1992Ichirō Fujiyama 35 1993Yawara Hata 36 1994Shinpei Iwanami (岩波 信平) 37 1994Shintarō Negishi 38 1995Hiro Takiguchi (滝口 弘) Scouting pioneer 39 1995Masao Takeda (竹田 正夫) Scouting pioneer 40 1997Yoshishige Ashihara 41 1997Ryōmasa Suzuki (鈴木 了正, Norimasa or Ryōshō) General Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of Nippon 42 1997Ayakazu Hirose 12 1998Keizō Obuchi Prime Minister 43 1999Shōichi Saba Chairman of the National Board of the Boy Scouts of Nippon 30 1999Park Kun-bae Korea13 2003Yoshirō Mori Prime Minister 31 2005Paras, Crown Prince of Nepal Nepal44 2008Kō Yoshida International Commissioner 45 2010Tsunao Hashimoto Chairman of the National Board of the Boy Scouts of Nippon 32 2011Kang Young-joong Korea Scout Association President March 7, 2008 - April 16, 2012 Korea46 2014Tadashi Sugihara (杉原 正) Honorary Chairman
See also Bronze Wolf of World Scout Committee Silver Wolf of The Scout Association Silver Wolf of the Norwegian Guide and Scout Association Silver Wolf of Scouterna Silver Buffalo Award of the Boy Scouts of America Order of CúChulainn of Scouting Ireland Silver Fish Silver Kangaroo Award of Scouts Australia
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