The Motoharu Kurata Award - Recent recipients
| Name | Affiliation | |
| 2021 | Go OKADA | KYUSHU UNIVERSITY |
| 2021 | Saneyuki OHNO | Kanazawa Institute of Technology |
| 2020 | Jumpei UEDA | Kyoto University | 2020 | Kenji SHINOZAKI | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) |
| 2019 | Sohei SUKENAGA | TOHOKU UNIVERSITY |
| 2019 | Yoshihiro TSUJIMOTO | National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) |
| 2019 | Yasuaki TOKUDOME | Osaka Prefecture University |
| 2018 | Shunsuke KOBAYASHI | Japan Fine Ceramics Center |
| 2018 | George HASEGAWA | KYUSHU UNIVERSITY |
| 2018 | Akira MIURA | HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY |
| 2018 | Tatsuya MORI | University of Tsukuba |
| 2017 | Nobuaki TERAKADO | TOHOKU UNIVERSITY |
| 2017 | Nakajima TOMOHIKO | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) |
| 2016 | Kazuyoshi KANAMORI | Kyoto University |
| 2016 | Toshiisa KONISHI | Okayama University |
| 2016 | Shunsuke MURAI | Kyoto University |
| 2015 | Miki INADA | Kyushu University |
| 2015 | Tetsuo KISHI | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 2015 | Hirokazu MASAI | Kyoto University |
| 2014 | Yoshihiro TAKAHASHI | Tohoku University |
| 2014 | Yoshihiro TAKAHASHI | Tohoku University |
| 2013 | Atsushi SAKUDA | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology |
| 2012 | Go KAWAMURA | Toyohashi University of Technology |
| 2011 | Yusuke DAIKO | University of Hyogo |
2011 |
Toru SUGAWARA | Akita University |
| 2010 | Yuki SHIROSAKI | Okayama University |
| 2010 | Tsuyoshi HONMA | Nagaoka University of Technology |
| 2009 | Junjie ZHANG | Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences |