- Imperial Prize (1940)
- Academic Noma Award (1941)
- Order of Culture (1943)
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1949)
- Foreign Member Royal Society of London (1963)
- Lomonosov Gold Medal (1964)
- Order of the Federal Republic of Germany, Medal of Merit (1967)
- Medal of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1967)
- Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1977)
Books written
"Tabitho" An autobiography of his life
- Signed the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, which called for nuclear disarmament after bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- First Japanese to win the Nobel Prize in 1949, which was not long after World War 2
- Was a professor at Columbia University, which was actually a Ivy League school
- He had a civic honor awarded to him after becoming the honorary citizen of Kyoto, Japan