| Year[1] | Winners |
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| 1952 | Kiyoshi Esaki, Yasuji Kamata, Reisen Narusawa, < | -- There seems to have been a metrologist of this name in the 20s -->, |
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| 1953 | [none] |
| 1954 | Haruki Egashira, Hideo Kaneda, Shigene Kanemaru, Ihei Kimura, Tetsuo Kitahara, Norizō Miki, Kokki Miyake, Yōnosuke Natori, Kiyoshi Nishiyama, Yasuzō Nojima, Terutarō Ogata, Kōyō Okada, Seisuke Sakuma< | -- chemist -->, Shōzaburō Sugimoto, Shinjirō Takahashi, Katsuo Takakuwa, Usaku Tōjō, Kōji Tsukamoto, Keikichi Yamabe |
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| 1955 | Chūzō Aochi, Toragorō Ariga, Ken Domon, Katsuji Fukuda, Yoshichi Igarashi, Hakudō Konishi, Seiichi Mamiya, Michio Miyata< | -- university professor -->, Hidenobu Sakaki, Shōgyoku Yamahata, Hayao Yoshikawa, Shinnosuke Yūki,, < | -- reading of name unknown --> |
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| 1956 | [none] |
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| Year | Distinguished Contributions | Annual | Newcomer's |
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| 1957 | AJAPS | Kinsuke Shimada, Yoshio Watanabe, Takayoshi Yoda | [none] |
| 1958 | Hiromu Hara, Nobuo Ina, Tōkyō Shashin Kenkyūkai | Hiroshi Hamaya | Yoshinobu Nakamura, Keisō Tomioka, |
| 1959 | Shin Fujisawa, Ryūsuke Nishimura | Hiroshi Kubota | Kenji Ishiguro, Keisuke Kojima |
| 1960 | Gesshū Ogawa | Ken Domon | [none] |
| 1961 | Edward Steichen, | Tokutarō Tanaka | |
| 1962 | Shinnosuke Fukushima | Jun Miki | Tatsuo Kurihara |
| 1963 | Kazuo Hayashi | | Noriaki Yokosuka |
| 1964 | Niryū Nagata, Bizan Ueda | Photography department of the publishing arm of Asahi Shimbun | Kōjō Tanaka, |
| 1965 | Sakae Haruki, Eiichi Sakurai, Tsutomu Watanabe, Tomizō Yoshikawa Kōgaku Kōgyō Gijutsu Kenkyū Kumiai | Shihachi Fujimoto, Akihiko Okamura | Kichisaburō Anzai, Shinzō Hanabusa |
| 1966 | Taikichi Irie, Kōyō Kageyama, Jun Koana, Shisui Tanahashi, < | -- movie producer? --> | [none] | Yasuo Ishigame |
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| 1967 | Masao Nagaoka, Nihon Hōdō Shashin Renmei | [none] | Masayuki Aramaki, Keizō Kaneko |
| 1968 | | Kiyoshi Sonobe, Ishikawa-ken Shashinshi-kai | |
| 1969 | Shin'ichi Kikuchi | JPS, Kenzō Nakajima | |
| 1970 | Yoshio Watanabe | Kishin Shinoyama, Yoshikazu Shirakawa | |
| 1971 | Hachirō Suzuki, Kōgorō Yamada | | Akira Kinoshita |
| 1972 | , Mikio Tamura | Kon Sasaki, Bukō Shimizu, Hisaji Taga | Kazuo Kitai |
| 1973 | Fusao Hori | Bun'yō Ishikawa, Kōji Morooka, Hajime Sawatari | |
| 1974 | | Keiichirō Gotō, Yoshihiko Shiga, Yūkichi Watabe | Shōkō Hashimoto, Kiyoshi Takai |
| 1975 | Tarō Hiramatsu | | |
| 1976 | Tōyō Miyatake, Kōyō Shibazaki | JPS, Rekishi-teki Kamera Shinsa Iinkai of Japan Camera and Optical Instruments Inspection and Testing Institute, Takashi Kijima | |
| 1977 | Gorō Miyamoto, Eiko Yamazawa, | Kenkyū Hattatsu Gurūpu of Fujifilm, Shirō Shirahata | Tsuneo Enari, Bishin Jumonji |
| 1978 | Setsuzō Katayama, Kōtarō Tanaka | Hisae Imai, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Yoshikazu Minami | Taku Aramasa, Shigeo Gochō, Satoshi Kuribayashi |
| 1979 | | Tadahiko Hayashi, APA, Hiroshi Kawashima | Kōji Hashimoto, Kazuyoshi Nomachi |
| 1980 | , Masao Tanaka | Jun Morinaga, Haruo Tomiyama, | Sanjirō Minamikawa, Tadashi Shimada |
| 1981 | Hatsutarō Horiuchi, Masaya Kaifu, | Hiroji Kubota, Banri Namikawa, Takashi Okamura, Yoshikazu Shirakawa | Keizō Kitajima, Yasuo Sakuma |
| 1982 | Naratoshi Furukawa, Akira Sasai, Shigeru Tamura | Akio Nakamura, Yoshino Ōishi | Manabu Miyazaki, Masaaki Nakagawa, Shigemoto Nobi |
| 1983 | Teikō Shiotani, Yukio Tabuchi, | Daidō Moriyama, Akihisa Masuda, Issei Suda | Hiromi Nagakura, Kiyoshi Suzuki, Hiroshi Yamazaki |
| 1984 | Kōnosuke Ishii, Kinsuke Shimada | , Shinzō Maeda, Teruhiro Sakaki, Yutaka Takanashi, Hiromi Tsuchida | Keiichi Tahara, Akihide Tamura |
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| Year | International | Distinguished Contributions | Annual | Newcomer's |
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| 1985 | George Eastman House, Furansu Shashin Kyōkai | Katsuji Fukuda, Kametarō Kawasaki, Tetsuo Yano | , Hideki Fujii, Tokumitsu Iwagō, Shōji Hanasawa, Takeshi Nishikawa | Hiroshi Ōsaka, Hitoshi Tsukiji |
| 1986 | [none] | Kanbee Hanaya, Sakae Tamura,, | Sanjirō Minamikawa, Masatoshi Naitō, Ikkō Narahara, Tadashi Shimada | Toshio Arai, Kōzō Miyoshi, Shintarō Suda |
| 1987 | オランダ国立ライデン大学写真絵画博物館 | Japan Camera and Optical Instruments Inspection and Testing Institute, Takeshi Kamei,, | Kōtarō Iizawa, Shunji Ōkura, Hidenobu Ueno | Tetsu Iida, Norio Kobayashi, Gen Yamaguchi |
| 1988 | | Hiroshi Hamaya, Tadahiko Kobayashi, Masami Nakai | Takashi Hamaguchi, Jun Miki, Kōichi Saitō, Takeyoshi Tanuma | Hiroh Kikai |
| 1989 | [none] | Ken Domon Museum of Photography,, Kōrō Honjō, Tetsuo Kishi, Shōji Ueda | Takeji Iwamiya, Yoshino Ōishi, Kiyoshi Sonobe, Yūkichi Watabe | Mitsuo Gotōda, Masato Seto, Tsuyoshi Takahashi |
| 1990 | [none] | Shōtarō Akiyama, Motoichi Kumagai, Jun Miki, Takeshi Ozawa | Nobuyoshi Araki, Hiromi Eguchi, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kazuyoshi Nomachi | Mitsuyoshi Sekido, Nobuo Shimose, |
| 1991 | David Douglas Duncan | Kiichi Asano, Higashikawa (Hokkaidō), Kineo Kuwabara, Fumio Matsuda, | Takeshi Mizukoshi, Shigeichi Nagano | |
| 1992 | [none] | Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Rikkō Nakamura, Shōji Ōtake, | , Jōji Hashiguchi, Seiji Kurata, Satoshi Kuribayashi | Ryōichi Saitō, Toshio Yamane, Kōji Yoshioka |
| 1993 | [none] | | Fusako Kodama, Yasuo Higa, Yutaka Takanashi, Chōtoku Tanaka | Yōichi Kamiyama, Naruaki Ōnishi |
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| Year | International | Distinguished Contributions | Cultural Advancement | Annual | Newcomer's | special |
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| 1994 | | San'ya Nakamori, Masaya Nakamura, Kakugorō Saeki | [none] | Eikoh Hosoe, Takeyoshi Tanuma, Kazuo Unno | Shōzō Maruta, Yutaka Senoo | [none] |
| 1995 | Cornell Capa | Masahide Amano, Kōjō Tanaka, (posthumous) | Haruo Tomiyama, Art and Natural History Museum of Sado, Photo Symposium in 沖縄実行委員会 | Shigeichi Nagano, Manabu Miyazaki, Seiichi Motohashi | , | [none] |
| 1996 | [none] | Shihachi Fujimoto, Kiyoji Ōtsuji, Yoshio Takemura | Tokuyama City Cultural Promotion Foundation, Japan Culture Association | Taku Aramasa, Shunji Dodo, Kikuji Kawada | Katsumi Sunamori, Hideo Suzuki | JPS |
| 1997 | John Szarkowski | | Ashiya Museum of Art and History を, 中心としたボランティア活動グループ | Yoshihiro Tatsuki, Kazuyoshi Nomachi | Osamu Kanemura, Kisei Kobayashi | [none] |
| 1998 | Jean-Luc Monterosso | Shūichi Sakai, Akira Tanno | Yukio Tabuchi Memorial Museum, Kazama Kōji | Akira Satō, Katsumi Watanabe | Bon Ishikawa, Asako Narahashi | [none] |
| 1999 | L. Fritz Gruber | Yōichi Midorikawa, Noriyoshi Sawamoto (posthumous), Kōji Yasukōchi | Photo Gallery International, Takushinkan and Shinzō Maeda (posthumous)< | -- i.e. a joint prize for the Maeda and the gallery --> | Yoshiyuki Akutagawa, Kiyoshi Takai | Keiko Nomura, Yūji Obata | Michio Hoshino and the exhibition "The World of Michio Hoshino" |
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| 2000 | Jean-Claude Lemagny | Takao Kajiwara, Kon Sasaki | Kenrō Izu and Friends without a Border, JPC | | Arata Dodo, Toshiya Momose | [none] |
| 2001 | Mark Holborn | Takashi Kijima, Iwao Ogura (posthumous), < | -- writer about photography --> | [none] | Tsuneo Enari, Teruo Okai, Kishin Shinoyama | Masaki Hirano, Masataka Nakano | Shōtarō Akiyama |
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| 2002 | Fosco Maraini | Ieyoshi Mihori, Kazuo Nishii (posthumous), Hiroo Tsuzuki | Michiko Kasahara, Sapporo City Photo Library | Satoshi Kuribayashi, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hiromi Nagakura | Rinko Kawauchi, Yuki Onodera | Eikoh Hosoe |
| 2003 | Sebastião Salgado | Kunika Todoriki, Senzō Yoshioka | Guardian Garden, Etsurō Ishihara | Naoya Hatakeyama, Ryūichi Hirokawa, Taishi Hirokawa | Yasuaki Kagii, Haruto Maeda, Hiroaki Yoshino | Nika Association of Photographers |
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| Year | International | Distinguished Contributions | Cultural Advancement | Annual | Lifetime Achievement | Scholastic | Newcomer's | Special |
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| 2004 | Kim Seung-kon | Yoshikatsu Saeki, Kenzō Yamamoto | Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts "Young Portfolio", Aichi Village (Nagano) and the Preservation Society for Photographs of Motoichi Kumagai | Hiroh Kikai, Toshinobu Takeuchi | Daidō Moriyama, Jun'ichi Ōta | Eiko Imahashi | , | [none] |
| 2005[2] | Anne W. Tucker | Ikkō Narahara, Shōmei Tōmatsu | Documentary Photo Festival Miyazaki | Mitsuhiko Imamori, Ken'ichi Komatsu | Akira Kinoshita, Eiichirō Sakata | [none] | Shōin Kajii, Ken Morisawa, | |
| 2006[3] | EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee | Shigeichi Nagano, Masaaki Nishimiya | General Photography Festival "Photo City Sagamihara" Committee, Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography | Hideaki Uchiyama | Miyako Ishiuchi | Teruo Okai | Kensuke Kazama, Masako Oguri, Kōji Onaka | [none] |
| 2007[4] | Terry Bennett | Minoru Ōnishi, Yōho Tsuda, (posthumous) | Iida, 実行委員会 of the "How are you, photography?" exhibition of the Kyoto Photography Club | Ikuo Nakamura | Akito Mizutani, Yoshimitsu Nagasaka | Yuri Mitsuda | Ken Kitano, Kazutoshi Yoshimura | J. Wally Higgins |
| 2008[5] [6] | Martin Parr | Ken'ichi Honda | Sōkyūsha | Risaku Suzuki, Ryūichirō Suzuki, Masato Seto | Shinpei Asai, Bishin Jumonji | Masafumi Fukagawa | Naoki Ishikawa, Takayuki Maekawa, Toshihiro Yashiro | Toshirō Shimoyama | |
| Year | International | Distinguished Contributions | Lifetime Achievement | Scholastic | Newcomer's |
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| 2009[7] | | , Norihiko Matsumoto | Toshio Shibata | Kōtarō Iizawa | Yasuhiro Ogawa, Shintarō Saitō (photographer) |
| 2010[8] | [none] | , Osamu Hiraki, < | -- reading unknown --> | Yukio Ōyama, Keizō Kitajima, Yoshihiro Tatsuki | Keishō Ishiguro, Ryūichi Kaneko | Keiko Sasaoka, Aya Fujioka |
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| 2011 | Chris Pichler | Keiichi Kimura, Tsuneko Sasamoto, Yoshiharu Fukuhara | Kikuji Kawada, Yasumasa Morimura, Herbie Yamaguchi | Shino Kuraishi | Ryo Ohwada, Toshiya Murakoshi |
| 2012 | Kyoko Yamagishi | Keisuke Kumakiri, Koji Taki, Tatsuo Fukushima, Osamu Murai | Bon Ishikawa, Yutaka Takanashi, Takashi Homma | Akiko Okatsuka | Kentaro Kumon, Asako Saito |
| 2013 | [none] | Shigeru Chatani, Minoru Yamada | Kazuo Kitai, Seiichi Motohashi | Osamu Ueno | Sohei Nishino, Tamaki Yura |
| 2014 | Kazuyoshi Nomachi | Souichi Kubo, Takeyoshi Tanuma | Yoshihiko Ueda, Issei Suda | Noriko Tsutatani | Harumichi Saito, Tetsuro Shimizu |
| 2015 | Simon Baker | Kunio Kawaguchi, Eiji Tsubayama | Yoshiichi Hara, Sanjiro Minamikawa | Mari Shirayama | Ryuichi Ishikawa, Seiya Nakai |
| 2016 | In Jin Choi and translation team of The History of Korean Photography 1631-1945 | Shisei Kuwabara, Shashinkosha Inc. (Takuji Yanagisawa), Naotaka Hirota | Naoya Hatakeyama, Shin Yamagishi | Masafumi Kohara | Takashi Arai, Ari Hatsuzawa |
| 2017 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Tsuneo Enari | Shinya Arimoto, Mitsugu Onishi | Shigemi Takahashi, Manabu Torihara | Moyuru Tsurusaki, Daisuke Yokota | |
