text: *1986 – Weissberger-Williams lectureship Award
  *1987 – Korean Chemical Society Award
  *1989 – Chemical Society of Japan Award
  *1995 – DowElanco lectureship Award
  *2000 – The H. C. Brown Lecture Award
  *2003 – Japan Academy Prize 
  *2009 – Paul Karrer Gold Medal
  *2009 – Special Member of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
  *2010 – Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  *2010 – Order of Culture
  *2010 – Person of Cultural Merit
  *2011 – Member of the Japan Academy
  *2011 – honored on a stamp issued by Republic of the Congo
  *2016 – Honorary chair professorship, National Cheng Kung University