On April 29 the Japanese government announced the foreign recipients of the 2015 Spring Imperial Decorations. Among them is Professor Dr. Harmen Beukers, former Professor of History of Medicine at Leiden University, former President of the Netherlands Association of Japanese Studies and at present Scaliger Professor Special Collections at the Leiden University library.
Prof. Beukers will receive the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, in recognition of his significant contribution to the promotion of academic exchanges and mutual understanding between Japan and the Netherlands.
The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, will be conferred in the name of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan by the Ambassador of Japan in the Netherlands during a conferment ceremony at a later date.
