with four gilt and four silver points (5th Class), or with silver points (6th Class); each point comprises three white enamelled rays. It is suspended from three enamelled paulownia leaves (not chrysanthemum leaves as the Decoration Bureau page claims) on a ribbon in white with red border stripes, worn as a sash from the right shoulder for the Grand Cordon, as a necklet for the 2nd and 3rd Classes and on the left chest for the 4th to 6th Classes (with a rosette for the 4th Class). The badge for the Seventh and Eighth Classes consisted of a silver medal in the shape of three paulownia leaves, enamelled for the 7th Class and plain for the 8th Class. Both were suspended on a ribbon, again in white with red border stripes, and worn on the left chest. Both classes were abolished in 2003 and replaced by the Order of the Paulownia Flowers, a single-class order that now ranks above the Order of the Rising Sun. Notable recipients 1st Class, Grand Cordon Tony Abbott (1957–), Former Australian Prime Minister, 2022 Aziz Abduhakimov, 2022 Syed Hamid Albar, 2019 Edmund Allenby, 1921 James F. Amos, 2014 Michael Armacost, 2007 Richard Armitage, 2015 Pridi Banomyong (1900–1983) Arthur Barrett, 1921 Edmund Barton (1849–1920), Former Australian Prime Minister, 1905 Carol Bellamy, 2006 Felix von Bendemann, 1906 Abdelmalek Benhabyles, 2012 Charles Reed Bishop (1822–1915) Dennis C. Blair, 2001 Sepp Blatter, 2009 Gustave Emile Boissonade (1825–1910), 1909 Sydney Brenner (1927–2019), 2017 Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, 2009 Arleigh Burke (1901–1996) Erwin Bälz (1849–1913), 1905 George W. Casey Jr. 2010 Krasae Chanawongse, 2004 Dick Cheney, 2018 Helen Clark, 2017 James Wheeler Davidson (1872–1933), 1896 Kemal Derviş, 2009 Malcolm Fraser, (1930-2015) Former Australian Prime Minister, 2006 Jerome Isaac Friedman, 2016 Bill Gates (1955–), Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2020 Robert Gates, 2017 Thamir Ghadhban, 2016 Julia Gillard (1961–), Former Australian Prime Minister, 2021 David L. Goldfein, 2021 Sir Stephen Gomersall KCMG, 2015 Hermann Göring (1893–1946) António Guterres, 2002 William Hague, 2017 Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX (1912–1988) John Hamre, 2016 Kenzaburo Hara (1907–2004), 1996 Harry B. Harris Jr., 2018 Dennis Hastert, 2010 Bob Hawke (1929-2019), Former Australian Prime Minister, 2012 Musa Hitam, 2018 Soichiro Honda (1906–1991), 1991 John Howard (1939-), Former Australian Prime Minister, 2013 Masaru Ibuka (1908–1997), 1997 Daniel Inouye, 2000 Henry Jackson (1855–1929) S. Jayakumar, 2012 Karu Jayasuriya (1940–), 2016 Anerood Jugnauth, 1988 Henk Kamp, 2014 Ginandjar Kartasasmita