# List of Japanese Nobel laureates and nominees

Since 1949, there have been 30 Japanese laureates of the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. It was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. An associated prize, thus far, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, also sometimes known as the Nobel Prize in Economics, has yet to be awarded to a Japanese national.
The Nobel Prizes in the above specific sciences disciplines and the Prize in Economics, which is commonly identified with them, are widely regarded as the most prestigious award one can receive in those fields. Of Japanese winners, twelve have been physicists, eight chemists, three for literature, five for physiology or medicine, and two for efforts towards peace.
In the 21st century, in the field of natural science, the number of Japanese winners of the Nobel Prize has been second behind the U.S.

## Summary

Number of Nobel laureates by category :
| Category | Japanese citizens/ organizations | Others born as Japanese citizens | Total | Others born in Japanese colonies | Remarks |
| Physics | 9 | 3 | 12 | - | Yoichiro Nambu, Shuji Nakamura, and Syukuro Manabe became American citizens. |
| Chemistry | 8 | - | 8 | 2 | Charles J. Pedersen has half Japanese ancestry (listed under the Diaspora), but Yuan T. Lee is not. |
| Physiology or Medicine | 5 | - | 5 | - | |
| Literature | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | Kazuo Ishiguro became a British citizen in 1983. |
| Peace | 2 | - | 2 | - | |
| Total | 26 | 4 | 30 | 2 | Japanese media usually count 29 laureates (excluding Kazuo Ishiguro). |

## Laureates

| Year | Laureate (birth/death) | Field | Rational | Undergraduate alma mater |
| Citizens ||||||
| 1949 | Hideki Yukawa (1907 – 1981) | Physics | "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces." | KyotoU |
| 1965 | Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906 – 1979) | Physics | "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles." (jointly with American theoretical physicists Julian Schwinger and Richard Feynman) | KyotoU |
| 1968 | Yasunari Kawabata (1899 – 1972) | Literature | "for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind." | UTokyo |
| 1973 | Leo Esaki (1925 – ) | Physics | "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively." (jointly with Norwegian-American physicist Ivar Giaever and shared with Welsh theoretical physicist Brian David Josephson) | UTokyo |
| 1974 | Eisaku Satō (1901 – 1975) | Peace | "for his contribution to stabilize conditions in the Pacific rim area and for signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty." (shared with Irish politician Seán MacBride) | UTokyo |
| 1981 | Kenichi Fukui (1918 – 1998) | Chemistry | "for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions." (jointly with Polish-American theoretical chemist Roald Hoffmann) | KyotoU |
| 1987 | Susumu Tonegawa (1939 – ) | Physiology or Medicine | "for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity." | KyotoU |
| 1994 | Kenzaburō Ōe (1935 – 2023) | Literature | "who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." | UTokyo |
| 2000 | Hideki Shirakawa (1936 – ) | Chemistry | "for their discovery and development of conductive polymers." (jointly with American chemist Alan MacDiarmid and physicist Alan J. Heeger) | Tokyo Tech |
| 2001 | Ryōji Noyori (1938 – ) | Chemistry | "for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions." (jointly with American chemist William S. Knowles and shared with American chemist K. Barry Sharpless) | KyotoU |
| 2002 | Masatoshi Koshiba (1926 – 2020) | Physics | "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos." (jointly with American chemist Raymond Davis Jr. and shared with Italian-American Riccardo Giacconi) | UTokyo |
| 2002 | Koichi Tanaka (1959 – ) | Chemistry | "for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules... [and] for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules." (jointly with American analytical chemist John B. Fenn and Swiss chemist Kurt Wüthrich) | Tohokudai |
| 2008 | Makoto Kobayashi (1944 – ) | Physics | "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature." (shared with Japanese-American physicist Yoichiro Nambu) | NagoyaU |
| 2008 | Toshihide Maskawa (1940 – 2021) | Physics | "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature." (shared with Japanese-American physicist Yoichiro Nambu) | NagoyaU |
| 2008 | Osamu Shimomura (1928 – 2018) | Chemistry | "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP." (jointly with American neurobiologist Martin Chalfie and biochemist Roger Y. Tsien) | Nagasaki |
| 2010 | Ei-ichi Negishi (1935 – 2021) | Chemistry | "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis." (jointly with American chemist Richard F. Heck) | UTokyo |
| 2010 | Akira Suzuki (1930 – ) | Chemistry | "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis." (jointly with American chemist Richard F. Heck) | Hokudai |
| 2012 | Shinya Yamanaka (1962 – ) | Physiology or Medicine | "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent." (jointly with British developmental biologist John B. Gurdon) | KobeU |
| 2014 | Isamu Akasaki (1929 – 2021) | Physics | "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources." (jointly with Japanese-born American Shuji Nakamura) | KyotoU |
| 2014 | Hiroshi Amano (1960 – ) | Physics | "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources." (jointly with Japanese-born American Shuji Nakamura) | NagoyaU |
| 2015 | Satoshi Ōmura (1935 – ) | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites." (jointly with Irish-American parasitologist William C. Campbell and shared with Chinese pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou) | Nashidai |
| 2015 | Takaaki Kajita (1959 – ) | Physics | "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass." (jointly with Canadian astrophysicist Arthur B. McDonald) | SaitamaU |
| 2016 | Yoshinori Ohsumi (1945 – ) | Physiology or Medicine | "for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy." | UTokyo |
| 2018 | Tasuku Honjo (1942 – ) | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation." (jointly with American immunologist James P. Allison) | KyotoU |
| 2019 | Akira Yoshino (1948 – ) | Chemistry | "for the development of lithium ion batteries." (jointly with American materials scientist John B. Goodenough and British-American chemist M. Stanley Whittingham) | KyotoU |
| 2024 | Nihon Hidankyo | Peace | "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again." |
| Diaspora ||||||
| 1987 | Charles J. Pedersen (1904 – 1989) | Chemistry | "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity." (jointly with American chemist Donald J. Cram and French chemist Jean-Marie Lehn) | UDayton |
| 2008 | Yoichiro Nambu (1921 – 2015) | Physics | "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics." (jointly with Japanese physicists Toshihide Maskawa and Makoto Kobayashi) | UTokyo |
| 2014 | Shuji Nakamura (1954 – ) | Physics | "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources." (jointly with Japanese physicists Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano) | TokushimaU |
| 2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro (1954 – ) | Literature | "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world." | Kent |
| 2021 | Syukuro Manabe (1931 – ) | Physics | "for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming." (jointly with German climate modeller Klaus Hasselmann and shared with Italian theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi) | UTokyo |

### List by alma mater

As of 2021, the list of Nobel Prize winners of Japanese nationality and Japanese ancestry by undergraduate alma mater.
| Institution | Country | Number of laureates |
| The University of Tokyo | Japan | 9 (1968, 1973, 1974, 1994, 2002, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2021) Yasunari Kawabata, Leo Esaki, Eisaku Satō, Kenzaburō Ōe, Masatoshi Koshiba, Yoichiro Nambu, Ei-ichi Negishi, Yoshinori Ohsumi, Syukuro Manabe |
| Kyoto University | Japan | 8 (1949, 1995, 1981, 1987, 2001, 2014, 2018, 2019) Hideki Yukawa, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Kenichi Fukui, Susumu Tonegawa, Ryōji Noyori, Isamu Akasaki, Tasuku Honjo, Akira Yoshino |
| Nagoya University | Japan | 3 (2008, 2014) Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa, Hiroshi Amano |
| Hokkaido University | Japan | 1 (2010) Akira Suzuki |
| Kobe University | Japan | 1 (2012) Shinya Yamanaka |
| Nagasaki University | Japan | 1 (2008) Osamu Shimomura |
| Saitama University | Japan | 1 (2015) Takaaki Kajita |
| Tohoku University | Japan | 1 (2002) Koichi Tanaka |
| Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan | 1 (2000) Hideki Shirakawa |
| Tokushima University | Japan | 1 (2014) Shuji Nakamura |
| University of Dayton | United States | 1 (1987) Charles J. Pedersen |
| University of Kent | United Kingdom | 1 (2017) Kazuo Ishiguro |
| University of Yamanashi | Japan | 1 (2015) Satoshi Omura |

#### Number of People by Degree Granting Institutions

    By degree (bachelor, master, doctorate) awarded, the number of Japanese alumni awarded by each university is as follows (including those with Japanese nationality and those of Japanese origin; as of October 9, 2019):
* Kyoto University 11
* The University of Tokyo 11
* Nagoya University 5
* Osaka University 2
    Only one Japanese degree holder from the following universities has won the Nobel Prize: Hokkaido University, Kobe University, Nagasaki University, Osaka City University, Saitama University, Tohoku University, Tokushima University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo University of Science, University of East Anglia, University of California, San Diego, University of Kent, University of Pennsylvania, University of Rochester, University of Yamanashi

## Nominees

| Image | Nominee | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Citation | Nominator(s) |
| Physics |||||||
| | Kotaro Honda | 24 March 1870 Okazaki, Aichi, Japan | 12 February 1954 Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan | 1932 | "for his invention of KS steel which had 250 oersteds magnetic resistance and developed through rigorous basic research on steel and alloys." | Seiji Nakamura (1869–1960) Japan |
| | Kotaro Honda | 24 March 1870 Okazaki, Aichi, Japan | 12 February 1954 Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan | 1932 | "for his invention of KS steel which had 250 oersteds magnetic resistance and developed through rigorous basic research on steel and alloys." | Junzo Okubo (?) Japan |
| | Kotaro Honda | 24 March 1870 Okazaki, Aichi, Japan | 12 February 1954 Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan | 1932 | "for his invention of KS steel which had 250 oersteds magnetic resistance and developed through rigorous basic research on steel and alloys." | Hikoo Saegusa (1890–1948) Japan |
| | Hideki Yukawa | 23 January 1907 Tokyo, Japan | 8 September 1981 Kyoto, Japan | 1940 | "for his research on elementary particles, particularly for the prediction of a new particle called mesons based on a proposed theory on strong and weak nuclear forces." | Hantaro Nagaoka (1865–1950) Japan |
| | Hideki Yukawa | 23 January 1907 Tokyo, Japan | 8 September 1981 Kyoto, Japan | 1940 | "for his research on elementary particles, particularly for the prediction of a new particle called mesons based on a proposed theory on strong and weak nuclear forces." | Dirk Coster (1889–1950) Netherlands |
| | Hideki Yukawa | 23 January 1907 Tokyo, Japan | 8 September 1981 Kyoto, Japan | 1941 | "for his research on elementary particles, particularly for the prediction of a new particle called mesons based on a proposed theory on strong and weak nuclear forces." | Toshizo Matsumoto (?) Japan |
| | Hideki Yukawa | 23 January 1907 Tokyo, Japan | 8 September 1981 Kyoto, Japan | 1943, 1944 | "for his research on elementary particles, particularly for the prediction of a new particle called mesons based on a proposed theory on strong and weak nuclear forces." | Louis de Broglie (1892–1987) France |
| | Hideki Yukawa | 23 January 1907 Tokyo, Japan | 8 September 1981 Kyoto, Japan | 1945 | "for his research on elementary particles, particularly for the prediction of a new particle called mesons based on a proposed theory on strong and weak nuclear forces." | Maurice de Broglie (1875–1960) France |
| | Hideki Yukawa | 23 January 1907 Tokyo, Japan | 8 September 1981 Kyoto, Japan | 1946 | "for his research on elementary particles, particularly for the prediction of a new particle called mesons based on a proposed theory on strong and weak nuclear forces." | Jean Thibaud (1901–1960) France |
| | Hideki Yukawa | 23 January 1907 Tokyo, Japan | 8 September 1981 Kyoto, Japan | 1946, 1948 | "for his research on elementary particles, particularly for the prediction of a new particle called mesons based on a proposed theory on strong and weak nuclear forces." | Gregor Wentzel (1898–1978) Germany |
| | Hideki Yukawa | 23 January 1907 Tokyo, Japan | 8 September 1981 Kyoto, Japan | 1948 | "for his research on elementary particles, particularly for the prediction of a new particle called mesons based on a proposed theory on strong and weak nuclear forces." | Marcel Schein (1902–1960) United States |
| | Hideki Yukawa | 23 January 1907 Tokyo, Japan | 8 September 1981 Kyoto, Japan | 1949 | "for his research on elementary particles, particularly for the prediction of a new particle called mesons based on a proposed theory on strong and weak nuclear forces." | Theodor Svedberg et al. (1884–1971) Sweden |
| | Hideki Yukawa | 23 January 1907 Tokyo, Japan | 8 September 1981 Kyoto, Japan | 1949 | "for his research on elementary particles, particularly for the prediction of a new particle called mesons based on a proposed theory on strong and weak nuclear forces." | Otto Stern (1888–1969) et al. Germany |
| | Hideki Yukawa | 23 January 1907 Tokyo, Japan | 8 September 1981 Kyoto, Japan | 1950 | "for his research on elementary particles, particularly for the prediction of a new particle called mesons based on a proposed theory on strong and weak nuclear forces." | Harold Urey (1893–1981) United States |
| | Hideki Yukawa | 23 January 1907 Tokyo, Japan | 8 September 1981 Kyoto, Japan | 1950 | "for his research on elementary particles, particularly for the prediction of a new particle called mesons based on a proposed theory on strong and weak nuclear forces." | Harald Wergeland (1912–1987) Norway |
| | Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | 31 March 1906 Tokyo, Japan | 8 July 1979 Tokyo, Japan | 1951 | "for his fundamental contributions in the development of quantum electrodynamics and for discovering the renormalization method." | Takahiko Yamanouchi (1902–1986) Japan |
| | Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | 31 March 1906 Tokyo, Japan | 8 July 1979 Tokyo, Japan | 1951 | "for his fundamental contributions in the development of quantum electrodynamics and for discovering the renormalization method." | Samuel Devons (1914–2006) United Kingdom |
| | Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | 31 March 1906 Tokyo, Japan | 8 July 1979 Tokyo, Japan | 1952 | "for his fundamental contributions in the development of quantum electrodynamics and for discovering the renormalization method." | Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981) Japan |
| | Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | 31 March 1906 Tokyo, Japan | 8 July 1979 Tokyo, Japan | 1955 | "for his fundamental contributions in the development of quantum electrodynamics and for discovering the renormalization method." | Isao Imai (1914–2004) |
| | Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | 31 March 1906 Tokyo, Japan | 8 July 1979 Tokyo, Japan | 1956 | "for his fundamental contributions in the development of quantum electrodynamics and for discovering the renormalization method." | Carl D. Anderson (1905–1991) United States |
| | Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | 31 March 1906 Tokyo, Japan | 8 July 1979 Tokyo, Japan | 1956 | "for his fundamental contributions in the development of quantum electrodynamics and for discovering the renormalization method." | Robert Bacher (1905–2004) United States |
| | Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | 31 March 1906 Tokyo, Japan | 8 July 1979 Tokyo, Japan | 1956 | "for his fundamental contributions in the development of quantum electrodynamics and for discovering the renormalization method." | Robert F. Christy (1916–2012) United States |
| | Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | 31 March 1906 Tokyo, Japan | 8 July 1979 Tokyo, Japan | 1957 | "for his fundamental contributions in the development of quantum electrodynamics and for discovering the renormalization method." | Helmut Hönl (1903–1981) Germany |
| | Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | 31 March 1906 Tokyo, Japan | 8 July 1979 Tokyo, Japan | 1957 | "for his fundamental contributions in the development of quantum electrodynamics and for discovering the renormalization method." | Leonard I. Schiff (1915–1971) United States |
| | Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | 31 March 1906 Tokyo, Japan | 8 July 1979 Tokyo, Japan | 1960 | "for his fundamental contributions in the development of quantum electrodynamics and for discovering the renormalization method." | Norman F. Ramsey Jr. (1915–2011) United States |
| | Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | 31 March 1906 Tokyo, Japan | 8 July 1979 Tokyo, Japan | 1962 | "for his fundamental contributions in the development of quantum electrodynamics and for discovering the renormalization method." | A. K. Dutta (?) India |
| | Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | 31 March 1906 Tokyo, Japan | 8 July 1979 Tokyo, Japan | 1963 | "for his fundamental contributions in the development of quantum electrodynamics and for discovering the renormalization method." | Sidney Drell (1926–016) United States |
| | Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | 31 March 1906 Tokyo, Japan | 8 July 1979 Tokyo, Japan | 1964 | "for his fundamental contributions in the development of quantum electrodynamics and for discovering the renormalization method." | Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller (born 1933) Germany |
| | Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | 31 March 1906 Tokyo, Japan | 8 July 1979 Tokyo, Japan | 1964 | "for his fundamental contributions in the development of quantum electrodynamics and for discovering the renormalization method." | W. Wessel (?) Germany |
| | Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | 31 March 1906 Tokyo, Japan | 8 July 1979 Tokyo, Japan | 1965 | "for his fundamental contributions in the development of quantum electrodynamics and for discovering the renormalization method." | Alfred K. Mann (1920–2013) United States |
| | Kazuhiko Nishijima | 4 October 1926 Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan | 15 February 2009 Tokyo, Japan | 1960 | "for his contributions to particle physics, particularly on his work on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, and the concept of strangeness, which he called the "eta-charge" or "η-charge", after the eta meson." | Marian Günther (1928–?) Poland |
| | Kazuhiko Nishijima | 4 October 1926 Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan | 15 February 2009 Tokyo, Japan | 1961 | "for his contributions to particle physics, particularly on his work on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, and the concept of strangeness, which he called the "eta-charge" or "η-charge", after the eta meson." | Frederick Seitz (1911–2008) United States |
| | Kazuhiko Nishijima | 4 October 1926 Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan | 15 February 2009 Tokyo, Japan | 1964 | "for his contributions to particle physics, particularly on his work on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, and the concept of strangeness, which he called the "eta-charge" or "η-charge", after the eta meson." | G. Höhler (?) Germany |
| | Kazuhiko Nishijima | 4 October 1926 Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan | 15 February 2009 Tokyo, Japan | 1966 | "for his contributions to particle physics, particularly on his work on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, and the concept of strangeness, which he called the "eta-charge" or "η-charge", after the eta meson." | W. Theis (?) Germany |
| | Kazuhiko Nishijima | 4 October 1926 Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan | 15 February 2009 Tokyo, Japan | 1967 | "for his contributions to particle physics, particularly on his work on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, and the concept of strangeness, which he called the "eta-charge" or "η-charge", after the eta meson." | Sergio DeBenedetti (?) United States |
| | Kazuhiko Nishijima | 4 October 1926 Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan | 15 February 2009 Tokyo, Japan | 1967 | "for his contributions to particle physics, particularly on his work on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, and the concept of strangeness, which he called the "eta-charge" or "η-charge", after the eta meson." | F. Cap (?) Austria |
| | Kazuhiko Nishijima | 4 October 1926 Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan | 15 February 2009 Tokyo, Japan | 1968 | "for his contributions to particle physics, particularly on his work on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, and the concept of strangeness, which he called the "eta-charge" or "η-charge", after the eta meson." | Yoichiro Nambu (1921–2015) Japan |
| | Kazuhiko Nishijima | 4 October 1926 Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan | 15 February 2009 Tokyo, Japan | 1968 | "for his contributions to particle physics, particularly on his work on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, and the concept of strangeness, which he called the "eta-charge" or "η-charge", after the eta meson." | Jun John Sakurai (1933–1982) United States |
| | Kazuhiko Nishijima | 4 October 1926 Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan | 15 February 2009 Tokyo, Japan | 1969 | "for his contributions to particle physics, particularly on his work on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, and the concept of strangeness, which he called the "eta-charge" or "η-charge", after the eta meson." | H. Pierre Noyes (born 1923) France |
| | Kazuhiko Nishijima | 4 October 1926 Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan | 15 February 2009 Tokyo, Japan | 1969 | "for his contributions to particle physics, particularly on his work on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, and the concept of strangeness, which he called the "eta-charge" or "η-charge", after the eta meson." | Bunji Sakita (1930–2002) Japan |
| | Kazuhiko Nishijima | 4 October 1926 Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan | 15 February 2009 Tokyo, Japan | 1969 | "for his contributions to particle physics, particularly on his work on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, and the concept of strangeness, which he called the "eta-charge" or "η-charge", after the eta meson." | Haakon A. Olsen (1923–2010) Norway |
| | Kazuhiko Nishijima | 4 October 1926 Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan | 15 February 2009 Tokyo, Japan | 1970 | "for his contributions to particle physics, particularly on his work on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, and the concept of strangeness, which he called the "eta-charge" or "η-charge", after the eta meson." | Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981) Japan |
| | Tadao Nakano | 1926 Tokyo, Japan | 15 August 2004 | 1961 | "his collaborative work with Nishijima on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula and quark model." | Frederick Seitz (1911–2008) United States |
| | Tadao Nakano | 1926 Tokyo, Japan | 15 August 2004 | 1970 | "his collaborative work with Nishijima on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula and quark model." | Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981) Japan |
| | Susumu Okubo | 20 February 1930 Tokyo, Japan | 17 July 2015 Rochester, New York, United States | 1965 | "for the Gell-Mann–Okubo mass formula for mesons and baryons in the quark model whichpredicts the relations of masses of the members of SU(3) multiplets in terms of hypercharge and isotopic spin." | Robert Marshak (1916–1992) United States |
| | Yoshio Ōnuki | 7 November 1928 Tochigi, Japan | — | 1965, 1966 | "for his research on the Sakata model based on the Yamaguchi-Ogawa-Ohnuki symmetry determining that hidden particles are equivalent to each other." | Gordon Sutherland (1907–1980) United Kingdom |
| | Sigenori Miyamoto | 20 October 1931 Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan | 31 December 2017 Japan | 1966 | "for developing a "discharge chamber" (later called "spark chamber") that observes the tracks of high-energy charged particles." | Y. Nogami (?) Japan |
| | Shuji Fukui | 19 August 1923 Osaka, Japan | 4 May 2018 Japan | 1966 | "for developing a "discharge chamber" (later called "spark chamber") that observes the tracks of high-energy charged particles." | Y. Nogami (?) Japan |
| | Leo Esaki | 12 March 1925 Takaida, Higashiōsaka, Osaka, Japan | — | 1968 | "for his work in electron tunneling in semiconductor materials which finally led to his invention of the Esaki diode, which exploited that phenomenon." | John Bardeen (1908–1991) United States |
| | Hiroomi Umezawa | 20 September 1924 Kuki, Saitama, Japan | 24 March 1995 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | 1968 | "for his fundamental contributions to quantum field theory and for his work on quantum phenomena in relation to the mind." | Eduardo R. Caianiello (1921–1993) Italy |
| | Jun Kondō | 6 February 1930 Tokyo, Japan | 11 March 2022 Suginami, Tokyo, Japan | 1969 | "for his research on the Kondo effect, a scattering of conduction electrons in a metal due to magnetic impurities, resulting in a characteristic change." | Osmund Dorenfeldt Jenssen (1923–2009) Norway |
| | Ryogo Kubo | 15 February 1920 Tokyo, Japan | 31 March 1995 Tokyo, Japan | 1970 | "for his works in statistical physics, particularly on non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and the theory of fluctuation phenomena." | Yoshio Yamaguchi (1926–2016) Japan |
| | Shoichi Sakata | 18 January 1911 Tokyo, Japan | 16 December 1970 Nagoya, Aichi, Japan | 1970 | "for his research on subatomic particles and the two meson theory: the Sakata model and the Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata neutrino mixing matrix." | Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981) Japan |
| Physiology or Medicine |||||||
| | Kitasato Shibasaburō | 29 January 1853 Oguni, Kumamoto, Japan | 13 June 1931 Tokyo, Japan | 1901 | "for his discovery the plague bacillus, independently of Alexandre Yersin." | A. de Bokay (?) Austria-Hungary |
| | Oscar Loew* | 2 April 1844 Marktredwitz, Bavaria, Germany | 26 January 1941 Berlin, Germany | 1912 | "for his discovery of the antibacterial effect of formaldehyde." | Rudolph Emmerich (1856–1914) Germany |
| | Sahachiro Hata | 23 March 1873 Masuda, Shimane, Japan | 22 November 1938 Tokyo, Japan | 1912 | "for his work on chemotherapy." | Hayazō Itō (1864–1929) Japan |
| | Sahachiro Hata | 23 March 1873 Masuda, Shimane, Japan | 22 November 1938 Tokyo, Japan | 1913 | "for the development of a drug against spirillosis." | Gakutaro Osawa (1863–1920) Japan |
| | Umetaro Suzuki | 7 April 1874 Makinohara, Shizuoka, Japan | 20 September 1943 Tokyo, Japan | 1914 | "for his work on essential substances in rice and their importance in beri-beri." | Wolfgang Heubner (1877–1957) Germany |
| | Ryukichi Inada | 18 March 1874 Nagoya, Aichi, Japan | 27 February 1950 Tokyo, Japan | 1919 | "for their discovery of the spirochaete of hemorrhagic icterus." | Louis Martin (1864–1946) France |
| | Ido | — | — | 1919 | "for their discovery of the spirochaete of hemorrhagic icterus." | Louis Martin (1864–1946) France |
| | Yamagiwa Katsusaburō | 23 February 1863 Ueda, Nagano, Japan | 2 March 1930 Tokyo, Japan | 1925 | "for his work on epithelial tumors." | Harno Hayashi (?) Japan |
| | Yamagiwa Katsusaburō | 23 February 1863 Ueda, Nagano, Japan | 2 March 1930 Tokyo, Japan | 1925 | "for his work on epithelial tumors." | Matarō Nagayo (1878–1941) Japan |
| | Yamagiwa Katsusaburō | 23 February 1863 Ueda, Nagano, Japan | 2 March 1930 Tokyo, Japan | 1925 | "for his work on epithelial tumors." | C. Yokote (?) Japan |
| | Yamagiwa Katsusaburō | 23 February 1863 Ueda, Nagano, Japan | 2 March 1930 Tokyo, Japan | 1925 | "for his work on epithelial tumors." | Shūzō Kure (1865–1932) Japan |
| | Yamagiwa Katsusaburō | 23 February 1863 Ueda, Nagano, Japan | 2 March 1930 Tokyo, Japan | 1926 | "for his research on experimentally induced tumors." | Ludwig Aschoff (1866–1942) Germany |
| | Yamagiwa Katsusaburō | 23 February 1863 Ueda, Nagano, Japan | 2 March 1930 Tokyo, Japan | 1928 | "for being the first to show that malignant tumors, carcinoma and sarcoma, could be produced by application of tar to the tissues of certain mammals." | Alexander A. Maximow (1874–1928) United States |
| | Yamagiwa Katsusaburō | 23 February 1863 Ueda, Nagano, Japan | 2 March 1930 Tokyo, Japan | 1936 | "for his work on the production of tumors with chemical substances." | R. Kimura (?) Japan |
| | Genichi Kato | 11 February 1890 Niimi, Okayama, Japan | 1 May 1979 Niimi, Okayama, Japan | 1928 | "for his investigations in the field of nerve-muscle physiology and establishing a new theory of decrementless conduction of nerve impulses." | Sahachiro Hata (1873–1938) Japan |
| | Genichi Kato | 11 February 1890 Niimi, Okayama, Japan | 1 May 1979 Niimi, Okayama, Japan | 1928 | "for his investigations in the field of nerve-muscle physiology and establishing a new theory of decrementless conduction of nerve impulses." | 13 Japanese physicians |
| | Genichi Kato | 11 February 1890 Niimi, Okayama, Japan | 1 May 1979 Niimi, Okayama, Japan | 1935 | "for his work on the isolation of single nerve fibers and muscle fibers and demonstration of the existence of reflex excitatory fibers and reflex inhibitory fibers." | 23 Japanese physicians |
| | Genichi Kato | 11 February 1890 Niimi, Okayama, Japan | 1 May 1979 Niimi, Okayama, Japan | 1935 | "for his work on the isolation of single nerve fibers and muscle fibers and demonstration of the existence of reflex excitatory fibers and reflex inhibitory fibers." | Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936) Soviet Union |
| | Genichi Kato | 11 February 1890 Niimi, Okayama, Japan | 1 May 1979 Niimi, Okayama, Japan | 1937 | "for his work on the microphysiology of nerve muscle." | Mariano Rafael Castex (1886–1968) Argentina |
| | Ken Kuré | 27 October 1883 Tokyo, Japan | 27 June 1940 Tokyo, Japan | 1931, 1937 | "for his work on the tonic and trophic innervation of voluntary muscles and spinal parasympathicus, and progressive muscular dystrophy." | M. Itagaki (?) Japan |
| | Ken Kuré | 27 October 1883 Tokyo, Japan | 27 June 1940 Tokyo, Japan | 1933 | "for his work on the tonic and trophic innervation of voluntary muscles and spinal parasympathicus, and progressive muscular dystrophy." | Seizaburo Nasu (?) Japan |
| | Ken Kuré | 27 October 1883 Tokyo, Japan | 27 June 1940 Tokyo, Japan | O. Kimura (?) Japan | "for his work on the tonic and trophic innervation of voluntary muscles and spinal parasympathicus, and progressive muscular dystrophy." |
| | Ken Kuré | 27 October 1883 Tokyo, Japan | 27 June 1940 Tokyo, Japan | 1935 | "for his work on the tonic and trophic innervation of voluntary muscles and spinal parasympathicus, and progressive muscular dystrophy." | Tomosaburō Ogata (1883–1973) Japan |
| | Ken Kuré | 27 October 1883 Tokyo, Japan | 27 June 1940 Tokyo, Japan | 1935 | "for his work on the tonic and trophic innervation of voluntary muscles and spinal parasympathicus, and progressive muscular dystrophy." | 19 Japanese physicians |
| | Ken Kuré | 27 October 1883 Tokyo, Japan | 27 June 1940 Tokyo, Japan | 1935 | "for his work on the tonic and trophic innervation of voluntary muscles and spinal parasympathicus, and progressive muscular dystrophy." | Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936) Soviet Union |
| | Ken Kuré | 27 October 1883 Tokyo, Japan | 27 June 1940 Tokyo, Japan | 1936 | "for his work on the autonomous innervation of skeletal muscle, progressive muscular dystrophy and spinal parasympaticus." | H. Okabayashi (?) Japan |
| | Ken Kuré | 27 October 1883 Tokyo, Japan | 27 June 1940 Tokyo, Japan | 1937 | "for his work on the autonomous innervation of skeletal muscle, progressive muscular dystrophy and spinal parasympaticus." | N. Onodera (?) Japan |
| | Ken Kuré | 27 October 1883 Tokyo, Japan | 27 June 1940 Tokyo, Japan | 1939 | "for his work on the autonomous innervation of skeleton muscle and progressive muscular dystrophy." | Naomi Kageura (?) Japan |
| | Takaoki Sasaki | 5 May 1878 Tokyo, Japan | 31 October 1966 Tokyo, Japan | 1935 | "for his work on the production of tumors with chemical substances." | Kenzo Tamura (?) Japan |
| | Takaoki Sasaki | 5 May 1878 Tokyo, Japan | 31 October 1966 Tokyo, Japan | 1935 | "for his work on the production of tumors with chemical substances." | Kunihiko Hashida (1882–1945) Japan |
| | Takaoki Sasaki | 5 May 1878 Tokyo, Japan | 31 October 1966 Tokyo, Japan | 1936 | "for his work on the production of tumors with chemical substances." | R. Kimura (?) Japan |
| | Takaoki Sasaki | 5 May 1878 Tokyo, Japan | 31 October 1966 Tokyo, Japan | 1936 | "for his work on the production of tumors with chemical substances." | C. Ogawa (?) Japan |
| | Takaoki Sasaki | 5 May 1878 Tokyo, Japan | 31 October 1966 Tokyo, Japan | 1939 | "for his work on experimentally induced liver tumors using chemical means (o-amidoazotoluol)." | S. Tsunoo (?) Japan |
| | Takaoki Sasaki | 5 May 1878 Tokyo, Japan | 31 October 1966 Tokyo, Japan | 1939 | "for his work on experimentally induced liver tumors using chemical means (o-amidoazotoluol)." | K. Hirai (?) Japan |
| | Takaoki Sasaki | 5 May 1878 Tokyo, Japan | 31 October 1966 Tokyo, Japan | 1939 | "for his work on experimentally induced liver tumors using chemical means (o-amidoazotoluol)." | T. Naito (?) Japan |
| Literature |||||||
| | Toyohiko Kagawa | 10 July 1888 Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan | 23 April 1960 Tokyo, Japan | 1947 | A Shooter at the Sun (1925) Love - The Law of Life (1930) Meditations on the Cross (1935) Songs from the Slums (1935) Brotherhood Economics (1936) | Knut B. Westman (1881–1967) Sweden |
| | Toyohiko Kagawa | 10 July 1888 Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan | 23 April 1960 Tokyo, Japan | 1948 | A Shooter at the Sun (1925) Love - The Law of Life (1930) Meditations on the Cross (1935) Songs from the Slums (1935) Brotherhood Economics (1936) | Sven Hedin (1865–1952) Sweden |
| | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | 24 July 1886 Tokyo, Japan | 30 July 1965 Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan | 1958 | Naomi (1925) Some Prefer Nettles (1929) Quicksand (1928–1930) Arrowroot (1931) In Praise of Shadows (1933) The Makioka Sisters (1943–48) The Key (1956) Childhood Years: A Memoir (1957) Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961) | Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) United States |
| | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | 24 July 1886 Tokyo, Japan | 30 July 1965 Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan | 1960 | Naomi (1925) Some Prefer Nettles (1929) Quicksand (1928–1930) Arrowroot (1931) In Praise of Shadows (1933) The Makioka Sisters (1943–48) The Key (1956) Childhood Years: A Memoir (1957) Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961) | Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) Sweden |
| | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | 24 July 1886 Tokyo, Japan | 30 July 1965 Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan | 1961 | Naomi (1925) Some Prefer Nettles (1929) Quicksand (1928–1930) Arrowroot (1931) In Praise of Shadows (1933) The Makioka Sisters (1943–48) The Key (1956) Childhood Years: A Memoir (1957) Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961) | The Japanese Authors' Union |
| | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | 24 July 1886 Tokyo, Japan | 30 July 1965 Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan | 1962 | Naomi (1925) Some Prefer Nettles (1929) Quicksand (1928–1930) Arrowroot (1931) In Praise of Shadows (1933) The Makioka Sisters (1943–48) The Key (1956) Childhood Years: A Memoir (1957) Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961) | Howard Hibbett (1920–2019) United States |
| | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | 24 July 1886 Tokyo, Japan | 30 July 1965 Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan | 1963 | Naomi (1925) Some Prefer Nettles (1929) Quicksand (1928–1930) Arrowroot (1931) In Praise of Shadows (1933) The Makioka Sisters (1943–48) The Key (1956) Childhood Years: A Memoir (1957) Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961) | Donald Keene (1922–2019) United States |
| | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | 24 July 1886 Tokyo, Japan | 30 July 1965 Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan | 1964, 1965 | Naomi (1925) Some Prefer Nettles (1929) Quicksand (1928–1930) Arrowroot (1931) In Praise of Shadows (1933) The Makioka Sisters (1943–48) The Key (1956) Childhood Years: A Memoir (1957) Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961) | Harry Martinson (1904–1978) Sweden |
| | Junzaburō Nishiwaki | 20 January 1894 Ojiya, Niigata, Japan | 5 June 1982 Ojiya, Niigata, Japan | 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967 | Spectrum (1925) Ambarvalia (1933) No Traveler Returns (1947) Modern Fables (1953) | Naoshirō Tsuji (1899–1979) Japan |
| | Junzaburō Nishiwaki | 20 January 1894 Ojiya, Niigata, Japan | 5 June 1982 Ojiya, Niigata, Japan | 1961 | Spectrum (1925) Ambarvalia (1933) No Traveler Returns (1947) Modern Fables (1953) | The Japanese Authors' Union |
| | Junzaburō Nishiwaki | 20 January 1894 Ojiya, Niigata, Japan | 5 June 1982 Ojiya, Niigata, Japan | 1963 | Spectrum (1925) Ambarvalia (1933) No Traveler Returns (1947) Modern Fables (1953) | Japan Academy |
| | Junzaburō Nishiwaki | 20 January 1894 Ojiya, Niigata, Japan | 5 June 1982 Ojiya, Niigata, Japan | 1968 | Spectrum (1925) Ambarvalia (1933) No Traveler Returns (1947) Modern Fables (1953) | |
| | Yasunari Kawabata | 11 June 1899 Osaka, Japan | 16 April 1972 Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan | 1961, 1963 | Snow Country (1948) Thousand Cranes (1952) The Master of Go (1954) The Sound of the Mountain (1954) The House of the Sleeping Beauties (1961) The Old Capital (1962) Dandelions (1972) | Henry Olsson (1896–1985) Sweden |
| | Yasunari Kawabata | 11 June 1899 Osaka, Japan | 16 April 1972 Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan | 1962 | Snow Country (1948) Thousand Cranes (1952) The Master of Go (1954) The Sound of the Mountain (1954) The House of the Sleeping Beauties (1961) The Old Capital (1962) Dandelions (1972) | The Japanese P.E.N. Club |
| | Yasunari Kawabata | 11 June 1899 Osaka, Japan | 16 April 1972 Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan | 1964, 1965 | Snow Country (1948) Thousand Cranes (1952) The Master of Go (1954) The Sound of the Mountain (1954) The House of the Sleeping Beauties (1961) The Old Capital (1962) Dandelions (1972) | Harry Martinson (1904–1978) Sweden |
| | Yasunari Kawabata | 11 June 1899 Osaka, Japan | 16 April 1972 Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan | 1966 | Snow Country (1948) Thousand Cranes (1952) The Master of Go (1954) The Sound of the Mountain (1954) The House of the Sleeping Beauties (1961) The Old Capital (1962) Dandelions (1972) | Karl Ragnar Gierow (1904–1982) Sweden |
| | Yasunari Kawabata | 11 June 1899 Osaka, Japan | 16 April 1972 Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan | 1967 | Snow Country (1948) Thousand Cranes (1952) The Master of Go (1954) The Sound of the Mountain (1954) The House of the Sleeping Beauties (1961) The Old Capital (1962) Dandelions (1972) | Howard Hibbett (1920–2019) United States |
| | Yasunari Kawabata | 11 June 1899 Osaka, Japan | 16 April 1972 Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan | 1968 | Snow Country (1948) Thousand Cranes (1952) The Master of Go (1954) The Sound of the Mountain (1954) The House of the Sleeping Beauties (1961) The Old Capital (1962) Dandelions (1972) | Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976) Sweden |
| | Yukio Mishima | 14 January 1925 Tokyo, Japan | 25 November 1970 Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan | 1963 | Confessions of a Mask (1949) The Sound of Waves (1954) The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956) The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963) Sun and Steel (1968) The Sea of Fertility (1969–1971) | Johannes Rahder (1898–1988) Netherlands |
| | Yukio Mishima | 14 January 1925 Tokyo, Japan | 25 November 1970 Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan | 1964, 1965, 1967 | Confessions of a Mask (1949) The Sound of Waves (1954) The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956) The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963) Sun and Steel (1968) The Sea of Fertility (1969–1971) | Harry Martinson (1904–1978) Sweden |
| | Yukio Mishima | 14 January 1925 Tokyo, Japan | 25 November 1970 Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan | 1968 | Confessions of a Mask (1949) The Sound of Waves (1954) The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956) The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963) Sun and Steel (1968) The Sea of Fertility (1969–1971) | Henry Olsson (1896–1985) Sweden |
| | Yasushi Inoue | 6 May 1907 Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan | 29 January 1991 Tokyo, Japan | 1969 | The Bullfight (1949) Hyōheki (1956) The Roof Tile of Tempyō (1957) Tun-huang (1959) | Erich Ruprecht (1906–1997) Germany |
| | Sei Itō (posthumously nominated) | 16 January 1905 Matsumae, Hokkaido, Japan | 15 November 1969 Tokyo, Japan | 1970 | Snow-lit Road (1926) Streets of Fiendish Ghosts (1937) Senkichi Narumi (1948) History of Japanese Literary Circles (1955–1969) | Kōjirō Serizawa (1897–1993) Japan |
| | Tatsuzō Ishikawa | 2 July 1905 Yokote, Akita, Japan | 31 January 1985 Tokyo, Japan | 1970 | Sōbō (1935) Soldiers Alive (1945) Kinkanshoku (1966) | Kōjirō Serizawa (1897–1993) Japan |
| Peace |||||||
| | Nagao Ariga | 13 November 1860 Osaka, Japan | 17 May 1921 Tokyo, Japan | 1909 | No motivation given. | V. H. Hilty (?) Switzerland |
| | Shibusawa Eiichi | 16 March 1840 Fukaya, Saitama, Japan | 11 November 1931 Tokyo, Japan | 1926 | "for his involvement in almost every enterprise associated with Japanese industrial development and worked to improve the relations between the United States and Japan concerning the legal status of Japanese workers in California." | Tasuku Harada (1863–1940) Japan |
| | Shibusawa Eiichi | 16 March 1840 Fukaya, Saitama, Japan | 11 November 1931 Tokyo, Japan | 1926 | "for his involvement in almost every enterprise associated with Japanese industrial development and worked to improve the relations between the United States and Japan concerning the legal status of Japanese workers in California." | Katō Takaaki (1860–1926) Japan |
| | Shibusawa Eiichi | 16 March 1840 Fukaya, Saitama, Japan | 11 November 1931 Tokyo, Japan | 1927 | "for his involvement in almost every enterprise associated with Japanese industrial development and worked to improve the relations between the United States and Japan concerning the legal status of Japanese workers in California." | Wakatsuki Reijirō (1866–1949) JapanKijūrō Shidehara (1872–1951) Japan |
| | Toyohiko Kagawa | 10 July 1888 Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan | 23 April 1960 Tokyo, Japan | 1954 | "for his work for reconciliation among nations." | Tetsu Katayama (1887–1978) |
| | Toyohiko Kagawa | 10 July 1888 Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan | 23 April 1960 Tokyo, Japan | 1954 | "for his work for reconciliation among nations." | Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961) United States |
| | Toyohiko Kagawa | 10 July 1888 Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan | 23 April 1960 Tokyo, Japan | 1955 | "for his work for reconciliation among nations." | 5 members of the Norwegian Storting |
| | Toyohiko Kagawa | 10 July 1888 Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan | 23 April 1960 Tokyo, Japan | 1956 | "for his work for reconciliation among nations." | 7 members of the Norwegian Storting |
| | Toyohiko Kagawa | 10 July 1888 Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan | 23 April 1960 Tokyo, Japan | 1960 | No motivation given. | Jōtarō Kawakami (1889–1965) Japan |
| | Toyohiko Kagawa | 10 July 1888 Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan | 23 April 1960 Tokyo, Japan | 1960 | No motivation given. | Motojirō Sugiyama (1885–1964) Japan |
| | Toyohiko Kagawa | 10 July 1888 Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan | 23 April 1960 Tokyo, Japan | 1960 | No motivation given. | Tokutarō Kitamura (1886–1968) Japan |
| | Nobusuke Kishi | 13 November 1896 Tabuse, Yamaguchi, Japan | 7 August 1987 Tokyo, Japan | 1960 | "for his work for disarmament and banning of nuclear weapons." | Spessard Holland (1892–1971) United States |
| | Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki | 18 October 1870 Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan | 12 July 1966 Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan | 1963 | "for his high cultural achievements." | Hideo Kishimoti (1903–1964) Japan |
| | Shigeru Yoshida | 22 September 1878 Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan | 20 October 1967 Tokyo, Japan | 1965 | "for his efforts to prevent the Pacific War although it was in vain, and his devotion to the restoration of peace." | Eisaku Satō (1901–1975) Japan |
| | Shigeru Yoshida | 22 September 1878 Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan | 20 October 1967 Tokyo, Japan | 1965 | "for his efforts to prevent the Pacific War although it was in vain, and his devotion to the restoration of peace." | 3 Finnish nominators |
| | Shigeru Yoshida | 22 September 1878 Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan | 20 October 1967 Tokyo, Japan | 1966 | "for his efforts to prevent the Pacific War, and for his efforts to bring restoration of peace." | Kisaburo Yokota (1896–1993) Japan |
| | Shigeru Yoshida | 22 September 1878 Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan | 20 October 1967 Tokyo, Japan | 1967 | No motivation given. | Shigeru Kuriyama (1886–1971) Japan |
| | Shigeru Yoshida | 22 September 1878 Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan | 20 October 1967 Tokyo, Japan | 1967 | 3 members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration |
| | Hideki Yukawa | 23 January 1907 Tokyo, Japan | 8 September 1981 Kyoto, Japan | 1966 | No motivation given | Hideo Kaneko (1934–2013) Japan |
| | Hideki Yukawa | 23 January 1907 Tokyo, Japan | 8 September 1981 Kyoto, Japan | 1966 | No motivation given | Selhataro Salsadia (?) Japan |
| | Yoshio Koya | 1890 Japan | 1974 Japan | 1968 | "for his many outstanding services to humanity and for his pioneering efforts as a world-renowned gynecologist that the birth rate and rate of induced abortions in Japan have declined." | Martin Allwood (1916–1999) Sweden |
| | Kaoru Hatoyama | 21 November 1888 Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan | 15 August 1982 Tokyo, Japan | 1969 | "for her contribution to the reopening of diplomatic relations between Japan and the U.S.S.R., and Japan's entry into the United Nations, and for her contribution to the Yuai ("Fraternity") Movement and for her achievements as an educator." | members of the Japanese Government and Parliament |