Honorary Doctorates

[No. ] Name (Titles Omitted)

(1) Date Awarded
(2) Occupation and place of employment at time of Award

[No. 16] Koichi Wakata

(1) October 14, 2023
(2) Senior Advisor and Astronaut, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

[No. 15] Friedrich Wagner

(1) October 8, 2013
(2) Doctor emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Physics, doctor emeritus at Greifswald University

[No. 14] Jürgen Basedow

(1) September 4, 2013
(2) Director of the Max Planck Foreign and International Private Law Research Institute and professor at Hamburg University

[No. 13] Walter Neupert

(1) December 15, 2012
(2) A fellow at the Max Planck Biochemistry Research Institute

[No. 12] Robert Huang

(1) March 24, 2010
(2) Executive director of US company Synnex

[No. 11] Kazuo Inamori

(1) May 12, 2006
(2) Honorary chairman of Kyocera Co., Ltd.

[No. 10] Jean-Marie Lehn

(1) October 7, 2005
(2) Professor at Louis Pasteur University

[No. 9] Teijiro Furukawa

(1) May 11, 2004
(2) Former Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary

[No. 8] Dominique Galouzeau de Villepin

(1) March 1, 2004
(2) Foreign Minister of the Republic of France

[No. 7] Carlos Ghosn

(1) August 1, 2003
(2) President and CEO of Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

[No. 6] Seo Hyun-Seop

(1) July 9, 2001
(2) Yokohama Consul General to the Republic of Korea

[No. 5] Kim Jong-Pil

(1) November 30, 1998
(2) Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea

[No. 4] Dieter Norr

(1) September 27, 1991
(2) Professor of Law at Munich University

[No. 3] Payong Chutikul

(1) September 25, 1978
(2) Japanese ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand

[No. 2] Federic Jouon des Longrais

(1) October 31, 1966
(2) Doctor emeritus at École Nationale des Chartes, University of Paris

[No. 1] Hans H. Reese

(1) March 19, 1965
(2) Doctor emeritus at Wisconsin University