The Japan Academy is an honorary organisation and science academy founded in 1879 to bring together leading Japanese scholars with distinguished records of scientific achievements. The Academy is currently an extraordinary organ of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology with its headquarters located in Taito, Tokyo, Japan. Election to the Academy is considered the highest distinction a scholar can achieve, and members enjoy life tenure and an annual monetary stipend.
Japan Imperial Academy, presently "Japan Academy"
Founder of Meiroku Society, Keio University, and the First President of Tokyo Academy
An academy of sciences is a type of learned society or academy dedicated to sciences that may or may not be state funded. Some state funded academies are tuned into national or royal as a form of honor.
Main building of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm
The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters along the Mariankatu street in Helsinki
The Keck Center of the National Academies in Washington, D.C., one of several facilities where the National Academy of Sciences maintains offices
Slovak Academy of Sciences (Presidium Building)