text: * Inoue Prize (2000)
  * Chirality Medal (2005)
  * Honorary member of the Italian National Academy of Sciences (2006)
  * Science and Technology Prize from MEXT, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2007)
  * Chemical Society of Japan Award (2010)
  * Japanese Purple Ribbon Medal (2012)
  * Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Pannonia, Hungary, 2015