The Japanese authorities has conferred honors on two Georgians being embellished for his or her work selling cultural and financial exchanges between the state and Japan.
Lewis Holladay Lancaster III, identified to most Georgians as Day Lancaster, was introduced with The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette. Starting in 1875, the order is the oldest award in Japan’s system of decorations and medals.
The Consulate General of Japan in Atlanta, which covers the Southeast U.S., conferred the identical honor on Greg Canfield, the previous secretary of commerce for the state of Alabama. Their rank is 2 rungs under that of former Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, who was inducted into the order final yr with gold and silver stars.
For his half, Mr. Lancaster grew up in Japan and got here to Georgia for highschool. He later spent 4 years managing the Japan workplace of the Georgia Department of Economic Development (then referred to as the Department of Industry and Trade) within the Nineteen Eighties, a time when many firms had been starting to arrange operations within the U.S.
Moving again to Georgia in 1986, he finally chaired the Japan-America Society of Georgia and served because the envoy accountable for the Japanese delegation throughout the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996.
More just lately, Mr. Lancaster acquired the society’s Mansfield Award, which was introduced in 2020 however awarded to him throughout an in-person ceremony on the Piedmont Driving Club in August 2023.
Meanwhile, Robert Marsh, a former supervisor of worldwide accounts for United Parcel Service Inc. and present founding father of GlobalMesh Inc., was honored in August by the Japanese international ministry “for the promotion of economic and cultural relations between Japan and the U.S.A.”
Mr. Marsh is chairman emeritus of the Japan-America Society of Georgia and continues to serve on its board. He was one in all 146 people globally referred to as out by Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya for his or her contributions.
The conferments come because the consulate closes out a yr celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in Georgia.