Chieko Asakawa           

2013

Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon

2012

Japan Braille Library "Honma Kazuo Culture Award 2012"

2011

Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award in the Leadership category

The 2011 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Japan in the category of development (Chieko Asakawa, Takashi Itoh, Hironobu Takagi, Kentarou Fukuda)

2010

The Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award

2010 Information Processing Society of Japan Fellow

2009

Information Processing Society of Japan "Kiyasu Special Industrial Achievement Award" (Chieko Asakawa, Takashi Itoh, Hironobu Takagi, Kentarou Fukuda, Junji Maeda)

2006

Nagoya Light-House, "The first Kondo-Masaaki Award"

2005

Japan Advertisers Association INC "Web Creation Award"

2004

Nikkei BP "Japan Innovator Award"

The Society of Japanese Women Scientists (SJWS) "A merit award for the accessibility research"

2003

Nikkei WOMAN "Nikkei Woman of the Year 2004, The 2nd place synthesis"

Yamato City "The Mayor's Citizen Award"

The Women in Technology International (WITI) "The WITI Hall of Fame 2003"

2002

ACM SIGCAPH (ACM) "The Best Paper Award ACM ASSETS 2002" (Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa)

1999

The Minister of Health and Welfare "Award from (MHW) the Minister of Health and Welfare for accessibility research activities 1999"

1998

ACM SIGCAPH (ACM)　"The Best Presentation Award ACM ASSETS 1998"

1996

Information Processing Society of Japan "Best Paper Award for Young Researcher"