The Golden Pheasant Award (きじ章, kiji-shō)^[1] is the highest award for adult leaders in the Scout Association of Japan. It is awarded by the Chief Scout of Japan, awarded for eminent achievement and meritorious service to the Association for a period of at least twenty years. It may be awarded to any member of a Scout Association affiliated with the World Organization of the Scout Movement.^[2]

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Golden Pheasant Award
Owner	Scout Association of Japan
Awarded for	Outstanding service to Scouting in Japan
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The award consists of a medallion depicting a stylized golden pheasant, suspended from a white ribbon with two red stripes worn around the neck. The attendant uniform emblem, worn over the pocket, consists of two red stripes on a white background with a 5 mm golden device of the Japanese Scout emblem.^[3]

This article is missing information about history. (November 2016)

The original Japanese list does not assign strict chronological numbering, rather by category. The first category is political, and in honorific order as number 1 is the Heisei emperor, although he received the award chronologically third in that category. The second category are Japanese Scouters, again starting with number 1 Michiharu Mishima. The third category are non-Japanese recipients, and again the list cycles back to 1, being Martin B. Williams. In addition, Akira Watanabe is out of numerical sequence.^[a]

Posthumously conferred are marked with (‡).^[a]

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• Silver Wolf of The Scout Association
• Silver Wolf of the Norwegian Guide and Scout Association
• Silver Wolf of Scouterna
• Silver Buffalo Award of the Boy Scouts of America
• Order of CúChulainn of Scouting Ireland
• Silver Fish
• Silver Kangaroo Award of Scouts Australia