{"id":33069,"date":"2025-09-02T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/?p=33069"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:14:27","slug":"20250827_takao_hensch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/news\/20250827_takao_hensch","title":{"rendered":"August 27,2025: [NEWS] Conferment Ceremony for the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon Held in Boston for Dr. Takao Hensch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/mission\/people\/takao_k_hensch\"style=color:blue>Dr. Takao Hensch<\/a>, IRCN Director (Professor at Harvard University\u2019s Center for Brain Science and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, as well as at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, Harvard Medical School), was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, in the 2024 Autumn Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>On August 27, 2025 a conferment ceremony was held at the official residence of the Consul-General of Japan in Boston to honor his distinguished achievement. The event was attended by eminent guests, including Nobel Laureate Dr. Susumu Tonegawa, and celebrated Dr. Hensch\u2019s pioneering contributions to neuroscience as well as his significant role in fostering U.S.-Japan academic exchange.<\/p>\n<p>\u25b6\u3000Related pages<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.us.emb-japan.go.jp\/itpr_ja\/11_000001_01101.html\"style=color:blue>https:\/\/www.boston.us.emb-japan.go.jp\/itpr_ja\/11_000001_01101.html<\/a> (Consulate-General of Japan in Boston\u2019s web site, Japanese only)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/news\/20241103_takao_hensch\"style=color:blue>https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/news\/20241103_takao_hensch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><wbr><\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex; flex-wrap:wrap; gap:5px;\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/100897731.jpg\" style=\"flex:1; min-width:230px;\"><br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_image0.jpg\" style=\"flex:1; min-width:230px;\"><br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/100897727.jpg\" style=\"flex:1; min-width:230px;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Takao Hensch, IRCN Director (Professor at Harvard University\u2019s Center for Brain Science and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, as well as at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, Harvard Medical  [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":33109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6c2ddf7eb01058ea19f3f89a100d3f6c.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Xf4o-8Bn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33069"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33119,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33069\/revisions\/33119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}