Editing Akio Morita (section)

==Awards and honours==
In 1972, Morita received the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement|website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#business|access-date=July 27, 2020|archive-date=March 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326032022/https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#business|url-status=live}}</ref> Morita was awarded the [[Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts)|Albert Medal]] by the United Kingdom's [[Royal Society of Arts]] in 1982, the first Japanese to receive the honor. Two years later, he received the prestigious [[Legion of Honour]], and in 1991, was awarded the First Class [[Order of the Sacred Treasure]] from the [[Akihito|Emperor of Japan]]. He was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1992 and the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1993.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Akio+Morita&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=March 31, 2022 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Akio Morita |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/akio-morita |access-date=March 31, 2022 |website=[[American Academy of Arts & Sciences]]|language=en}}</ref> That same year, he was awarded an honorary [[Order of the British Empire|British knighthood (KBE)]]. Morita received the International Distinguished Entrepreneur Award from the [[University of Manitoba]] in 1987. In 1998, he was the only Asian person on ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's list of the 20 most influential business people of the 20th century as part of their [[Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century]].<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,26473,00.html|title=Builders & Titans|date=December 7, 1998|access-date=August 9, 2020|archive-date=May 23, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160523112333/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,26473,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was posthumously awarded the Grand Cordon of the [[Order of the Rising Sun]] in 1999. In 2003, [[Anaheim University]]'s Graduate School of Business was renamed the Akio Morita School of Business in his honor. The Morita family's support for the program led to the growth of the Anaheim University Akio Morita School of Business in Tokyo, Japan.