Awards
- Optics Paper Award from the Optical Society of Japan and the Japan Society of Applied Physics (March 2010)
- Incentive Award from the Laser Society of Japan (May 2006)
- Funai Foundation for Information Technology Incentive Award (April 2006)
- Teshima Seiichi Commemorative Foundation Engineering Research Award (Feb. 2006)
- Ando Memorial Award, Ando Foundation (June, 2005)
- Niwa Memorial Award, Tokyo Denki University (February, 2002)
- Fujiwara Award, Keio University (March, 2000)
- IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (IEEE/LEOS) 1999 Graduate Student Fellowship Award (November, 1999)
- Ericsson Young Scientist Award, Ericsson Japan (May, 1999)