The government Nov. 3 released a list of recipients of this year's fall decorations, comprising 4,024 Japanese, including 318 women, and 61 foreign nationals for their contributions to society.

Among the 11 recipients of the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, the highest honor in the fall commemoration, will be Fujio Cho, 72, Toyota Motor Corp. chairman.

The government will bestow similar honors on 61 foreign recipients from 32 countries. Of them, Torsten Wiesel, 85, laureate of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and president emeritus of Rockefeller University, will receive the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun.

Other recipients include Saburo Kawabuchi, 72, honorary president of the Japan Football Association, who will receive the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star.

In the field of the arts, film director Nobuhiko Obayahi, 71, and National Living Treasure and Japanese doll maker Komao Hayashi, 73, will be honored with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette.