Dear All,

It is my great pleasure to inform that Prof. Takashi Fujita,
co-founder of the GIS-IDEAS Conference [1] has been awarded
the "Order of the Sacred Treasure" [2] by the Japanese government
in autumn 2014.

It a very happy coincidence that the award comes in the same
year (2014 ) when the other co-founder Dr. Nghiem Vu Khai was bestowed
with the Order of the "Order of the Rising Sun" [3] by the Japan
Government earlier in 2014.

Hearty Congratulation to Prof. Fujita and Dr. Khai!!

Best

Venka
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Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan
Osaka City University, Japan

[1] http://www.gisideas.net/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Sacred_Treasure
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Rising_Sun