Talk:Order of the Rising Sun
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[edit] Old Order of the Rising Sun page
Has been merged in as far as possible. There ia a diasagreement on date :
..was established in April 1875...
Rich Farmbrough 11:21, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
--- I added the name of Prof. Dr. Willy Vande Walle. http://www.be.emb-japan.go.jp/english/japbel/vandewalle.html
[edit] Paulownia
Seems like the Paulownia thing should be separate from the Rising Sun thing, judging by this: http://www8.cao.go.jp/intro/kunsho/eiyaku.html and also the Japanese version of Wikipedia. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 138.212.252.110 (talk) 02:12, 8 May 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Persons qualified for award
In the header of the article it is stated that before 1981 only Japanese males were qualified to receive the order. However, from the list of recipients it is clear that many foreign men received the order before 1981. Who can clarify this? I do not read Japanese. Michel Doortmont (talk) 12:36, 22 March 2008 (UTC)