# Golden Pheasant Award

The Golden Pheasant Award (きじ章, kiji-shō) 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 States |
| 2 | 1952 | J. S. Wilson | | United Kingdom |
| 3 | 1953 | Richard Nixon | | United States |
| 1 | 1953 | Michiharu Mishima | first president of the Boy Scout Association of Japan | |
| 2 | 1953 | Jinnojō Hayashi (林 甚之丞) | | |
| 3 | 1954 | Sano Tsuneha | Elder (early Scouting movement notable) | |
| 4 | 1955 | Motojirō Ozaki | member of the Diet | ‡ |
| 5 | 1955 | Chūhachi Nakano (中野 忠ハ) | | ‡ |
| 6 | 1956 | Gotō Shinpei | first Chief Scout of Japan | ‡ |
| 7 | 1956 | Yoshinori Futara | co-founder of the Boy Scouts of Japan in April 1922; General Commissioner | |
| 4 | 1956 | Daniel Spry | | Canada |
| 5 | 1957 | Olave Baden-Powell | | United Kingdom |
| 6 | 1957 | Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell | | United Kingdom |
| 7 | 1957 | Arthur A. Schuck | | United States |
| 8 | 1957 | John Thurman | | United Kingdom |
| 9 | 1957 | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | | Iran |
| 10 | 1957 | Walter Nash | | New Zealand |
| 8 | 1959 | Hidesaburō Kurushima | President of the Boy Scouts of Japan | |
| 11 | 1959 | Jorge B. Vargas | | Philippines |
| 12 | 1964 | Constantine II of Greece | | Greece |
| 13 | 1964 | Ellsworth Hunt Augustus | | United States |
| 9 | 1966 | Taizō Ishizaka | Chairman of the National Board of the Boy Scouts of Japan | |
| 14 | 1966 | Gabriel Daza | Co-founder Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP). BSP President 1961-1968 | Philippines |
| 3 | 1967 | Shigeru Yoshida | Prime Minister | |
| 15 | 1967 | Kim Jong-pil | Korea Scout Association President ? - June 6, 1969 | Korea |
| 16 | 1968 | Gustavo J. Vollmer | | Venezuela |
| 17 | 1968 | Irving J. Feist | | United States |
| 4 | 1970 | Eisaku Satō | Prime Minister | |
| 1 | 1971 | Akihito | Crown Prince of Japan | |
| 18 | 1971 | Charles Dymoke Green, Jr. | | United Kingdom |
| 19 | 1971 | William Durant Campbell | | United States |
| 10 | 1973 | Saburō Matsukata | President of the Boy Scouts of Japan | ‡ |
| 20 | 1973 | Antonio C. Delgado | | Philippines |
| 21 | 1974 | Gerald Ford | | United States |
| 22 | 1975 | Elizabeth II | | United Kingdom |
| 23 | 1975 | Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | | United Kingdom |
| 11 | 1978 | Kōgorō Uemura | Chairman of the National Board of the Boy Scouts of Japan | |
| 12 | 1979 | Akira Watanabe | President of the Boy Scouts of Japan | |
| 24 | 1978 | Birendra of Nepal | | Nepal |
| 13 | 1978 | Ichirō Terao | Chairman of the National Board of the Boy Scouts of Japan | |
| 14 | 1978 | Yoshio Kobayashi (小林 芳夫) | | |
| 5 | 1979 | Takeo Fukuda | Prime Minister | |
| 15 | 1979 | Seiichiro Furuta | Scouting pioneer | |
| 16 | 1979 | Tadatsugu Ozaki (尾崎 忠次) | Scouting pioneer | |
| 25 | 1980 | Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden | | Sweden |
| 6 | 1980 | Masayoshi Ōhira | Prime Minister | |
| 7 | 1981 | Yoshio Sakurauchi | President of the Scout Parliamentary Caucus | |
| 17 | 1981 | Chubee Kagita | General Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of Nippon | |
| 18 | 1981 | Jusaburō Kawai (河合 寿三郎) | Scouting pioneer | ‡ |
| 26 | 1983 | Ronald Reagan | | United States |
| 19 | 1983 | Katsuji Yamaguchi (山口 勝治) | Scouting pioneer | ‡ |
| 20 | 1985 | Gen Hirose | | |
| 8 | 1985 | Ken Harada | President of the Scout Parliamentary Caucus | |
| 21 | 1985 | Yōsuke Hirayama (平山 羊介) | | |
| 9 | 1986 | Yasuhiro Nakasone | Prime Minister | |
| 27 | 1987 | László Nagy | | Switzerland |
| 22 | 1987 | Sei Yagi (Yagi Kiyoshi (?)ハ木 清) | | |
| 23 | 1988 | Masao Murata (村田 正雄) | General Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of Japan | |
| 24 | 1988 | Toshiwo Doko | President? (Sōsai) | ‡ |
| 2 | 1989 | Naruhito | Crown Prince of Japan | |
| 25 | 1989 | Masaru Ibuka | | |
| 26 | 1989 | Yorihiro Matsudaira | International Commissioner | |
| 27 | 1989 | Muneyoshi Tokugawa | | ‡ |
| 28 | 1989 | Lee Teng-hui | | Republic of China |
| 28 | 1990 | Mitsuji Hama (浜 光治) | | |
| 29 | 1990 | Sadaharu Hisamatsu (久松 定治) | | |
| 30 | 1990 | Yoshio Hattori | | ‡ |
| 31 | 1991 | Sōichirō Honda | | |
| 32 | 1991 | Shōzō Takahashi (高橋 正蔵) | | |
| 33 | 1991 | Tarō Matoba (的場 太郎) | | |
| 10 | 1991 | Noboru Takeshita | Prime Minister | |
| 29 | 1992 | Prince Edward, Duke of Kent | | United Kingdom |
| 11 | 1992 | Ryūtarō Hashimoto | Prime Minister | |
| 34 | 1992 | Ichirō Fujiyama | | |
| 35 | 1993 | Yawara Hata | | |
| 36 | 1994 | Shinpei Iwanami (岩波 信平) | | |
| 37 | 1994 | Shintarō Negishi | | |
| 38 | 1995 | Hiro Takiguchi (滝口 弘) | Scouting pioneer | |
| 39 | 1995 | Masao Takeda (竹田 正夫) | Scouting pioneer | |
| 40 | 1997 | Yoshishige Ashihara | | |
| 41 | 1997 | Ryōmasa Suzuki (鈴木 了正, Norimasa or Ryōshō) | General Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of Nippon | |
| 42 | 1997 | Ayakazu Hirose | | |
| 12 | 1998 | Keizō Obuchi | Prime Minister | |
| 43 | 1999 | Shōichi Saba | Chairman of the National Board of the Boy Scouts of Nippon | |
| 30 | 1999 | Park Kun-bae | | Korea |
| 13 | 2003 | Yoshirō Mori | Prime Minister | |
| 31 | 2005 | Paras, Crown Prince of Nepal | | Nepal |
| 44 | 2008 | Kō Yoshida | International Commissioner | |
| 45 | 2010 | Tsunao Hashimoto | Chairman of the National Board of the Boy Scouts of Nippon | |
| 32 | 2011 | Kang Young-joong | Korea Scout Association President March 7, 2008 - April 16, 2012 | Korea |
| 46 | 2014 | Tadashi Sugihara (杉原 正) | Honorary Chairman | |