Chiaki Tanuma, Adjunct Professor of the Integrated Hospitality (Green House) Endowed Chair at the Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon at the 2023 Spring Conferment of Decoration in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the promotion of the food service industry and his longstanding efforts to contribute to society through food and hospitality.

Prof. Tanuma has also contributed to academia as a member of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University, his alma mater, since 2011. He has also made a wide range of social contributions, including scholarship support for the Nolan School of Hotel Administration, SC Johnson College of Business, and efforts to promote industry-academia collaboration through the establishment of an endowed chair at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Management.

The Order of the Rising Sun is awarded in the Japanese conferment to those who have made outstanding achievements in various fields of society, focusing on the content of their accomplishments.