This summer, the Japan Academy awarded Satohiko Sasaki the Duke of Edinburgh Prize for his study of the physiology and ecology of tropical rain forest species and the development of rehabilitation technology. The award, made in the presence of the Emperor and Empress, was a crowning recognition of Sasaki's work.
He also has received the Achievement Award of the Forestry Society of Japan and the Japan Prize of Agricultural Science.
Sasaki has devoted his distinguished career to forestry since he took his first degree from the University of Tokyo in 1959.