日本历任诺奖得主列表。如果我们不能对这些成就以应有的尊重，那我们离文明还远

Year	Laureate		Nobel Prize	Life	Alma Mater	Notes
2014		Isamu Akasaki	Physics	1929–	Kyoto University	"for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources"
2014		Hiroshi Amano	Physics	1960–	Nagoya University	"for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources"
2014		Shuji Nakamura (USA citizen)	Physics	1954–	University of Tokushima	"for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources"
2012		Shinya Yamanaka	Physiology or Medicine	1962–	Kobe University	"for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent" shared with John B. Gurdon
2010		Akira Suzuki	Chemistry	1930–	Hokkaido University	"for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis" shared with Richard F. Heck and Ei-ichi Negishi
2010		Ei-ichi Negishi	Chemistry	1935–	University of Tokyo	"for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis" shared with Richard F. Heck and Akira Suzuki
2008		Osamu Shimomura	Chemistry	1928–	Nagasaki University	"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP" – shared with Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien, held American nationality.[3]
2008		Makoto Kobayashi	Physics	1944–	Nagoya University	"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature" – shared with Yoichiro Nambu and Toshihide Maskawa.[4]
2008		Toshihide Maskawa	Physics	1940–	Nagoya University	"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature" – shared with Yoichiro Nambu and Makoto Kobayashi.[4]
2008		Yoichiro Nambu (USA citizen)	Physics	1921–	Tokyo Imperial University	"for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics" – held American nationality, shared with Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa.[4]
2002		Masatoshi Koshiba	Physics	1926–	University of Tokyo	"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos" – shared with Raymond David Jr and Riccardo Giacconi.[5]
2002		Koichi Tanaka	Chemistry	1959–	Tohoku University	"for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules" and "for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules" – shared with John Fenn and Kurt Wüthrich.[6]
2001		Ryōji Noyori	Chemistry	1938–	Kyoto University	"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions" – shared with William Knowles and Barry Sharpless.[7]
2000		Hideki Shirakawa	Chemistry	1936–	Tokyo Institute of Technology	"for the discovery and development of conductive polymers" – shared with Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger.[8]
1994		Kenzaburō ?e	Literature	1935–	University of Tokyo	"who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today."[9]
1987		Susumu Tonegawa	Physiology or Medicine	1939–	Kyoto University, University of California, San Diego	"for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity."[10]
1981		Kenichi Fukui	Chemistry	1918–1998	Kyoto Imperial University	"for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions" – shared with Roald Hoffmann.[11]
1974		Eisaku Satō	Peace	1901–1975	Tokyo Imperial University	Shared with Seán MacBride.[12]
1973		Leo Esaki	Physics	1925–	Tokyo Imperial University	"for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively" – shared with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson.
1968		Yasunari Kawabata	Literature	1899–1972	Tokyo Imperial University	"for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind" – .[13]
1965		Sin-Itiro Tomonaga	Physics	1906–1979	Kyoto Imperial University	"for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles" – shared with Julian Schwinger and Richard Feynman.[14]
1949		Hideki Yukawa	Physics	1907–1981	Kyoto Imperial University	"for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces"[15]