Honors
- 1959 - Genetics Society of Japan Prize
- 1965 - Weldon Memorial Prize, Oxford
- 1968 - Japan Academy Prize
- 1973 - Foreign member of National Academy of Sciences
- 1976 - Person of Cultural Merit
- 1976 - Order of Culture
- 1982 - Member of The Japan Academy
- 1986 - Chevalier de l'Ordre Nationale de Merite
- 1987 - Asahi Shimbun Prize
- 1987 - John J. Carty Award of the National Academy of Sciences in evolutionary biology
- 1988 - International Prize for Biology
- 1992 - Darwin Medal
- 1993 - Foreign member of Royal Society
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