decoration. For example: 勲一等旭日桐花大綬章 (literally: 1st Class, Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, Paulownia Flowers) 勲一等旭日大綬章 (literally: 1st Class...

of the Committee of Foreign Affairs for the House of Representatives. 勲一等旭日大綬章 Grand Cordon of the Order of Rising Sun. Kono,Masaru. Japan’s Postwar Party...

of the Rising Sun, were abolished, and the upper half of the 1st Class (勲一等, Kun-ittō) was separated as the Order of the Paulownia Flowers, which was...