Ph. D., University of Tokyo (Prof. Shun-ichi Yamada)

Post-doctoral fellow, Harvard University (Prof. E. J. Corey)

Associate Professor, Teikyo University (Prof. Shiro Ikegami)

Research Group Leader, Sagami Chemical Research Center

Professor, Hokkaido University

Professor, The University of Tokyo

Vice-president, The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan

Member, Science Council of Japan

President, The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan

Dean, the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Representative Director, Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation

Director, Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Tokyo

Professor Emeritus, Hokkaido University

Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo

President, The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan

Chairman of Board of Directors, Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation

The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Young Scientists (Japan)

Inoue Prize for Science(Japan)

Fluka Prize (Reagent of the Year 1996, Switzerland)

The Elsevier Award for Inventiveness in Organic Chemistry(Belgium)

The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award(Japan)

Molecular Chirality Award(Japan)

The Naito Foundation Research Prize (Japan)

Arthur C. Cope Senior Scholar Awards (American Chemical Society)

Medal with Purple Ribbon(Japan)

Toray Science and Technology Prize(Japan)

Japan Academy Prize(Japan)

Sankyo Takamine Memorial Award (Japan)

Shiokawa Prize of Rare Earth Society (Japan)

ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (USA)

Centenary Prize (Royal Society of Chemistry) (UK)

Prelog Medal (ETH) (Switzerland)

Special Award of Synthetic Organic Chemistry of Japan (Japan)

Ryoji Noyori Prize (Japan)

SFC-Rhone Poulenc Lecttureship (France)

Warner Lambert Park-Davis Lecturer (Ohio State University, USA)

Buchi Lecturer (MIT, USA)

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecturer (Harvard University, USA)

Syntex Distinguished Lecturer (Colorado State University, USA)

H. C. Brown Lecturer (Purdue University, USA)

BioMega Lecturer (University of Toronto, Canada)

UCLA/Amgen Lecturer (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecturer (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Novartis Chemistry Lectureship (Novartis, Switzerland)

Robinson Lecturer (Oxford University, UK)

Organic Syntheses Lecturer(University of Illinois, USA)

AstraZeneca Lecturer (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Pfizer Lecturer (University of California, San Diego, USA)

AstraZeneca Lecturer (Bristol Synthesis Meeting, UK)

Oppolzer Lecturere (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

Holm Lecturer (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Bristol Myers Squibb Lecture (Pennsylvania University, USA)

The Kurt-Alder-Lectureship (Cologne University, Germany)

Abbott Lecturer (University of Chicago, USA)

Retirement Memorial Lecture (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Eighth Negishi-Brown Lectures (Purdue University, USA)

The Merck Lectureship (Boston College, USA)

Shimao-Takeda Lectureship (Seoul, Korea)

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Chemical Research Society of India

Honorary Member of Japan Chemical Society

Member of Science Council of Japan

Honorary Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan