Skip to main content![[Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty exchanges gifts with unknown Japanese group, California, 1966?]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8742/thumbnail)
![[Father Michael McKillop receiving Fifth Class Order of the Rising Sun award on behalf of Father Hugh T. Lavery at office of Consul General of Japan, Los Angeles, California, June 15, 1966]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8702/preview)
![[Father Michael McKillop receiving Fifth Class Order of the Rising Sun award on behalf of Father Hugh T. Lavery at office of Consul General of Japan, Los Angeles, California, June 15, 1966]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8702/full)
[Father Michael McKillop receiving Fifth Class Order of the Rising Sun award on behalf of Father Hugh T. Lavery at office of Consul General of Japan, Los Angeles, California, June 15, 1966]
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Maker
Miyatake, Toyo
(1895 - 1979)
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Date1966
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.903
Description1 photographic print : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 2 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, June 16, 1966.;Consul General Toshiro Shimanouchi presents medal and certificate of the Japanese government's Fifth Class Order of the Rising Sun to Father Michael McKillop who receives it on behalf of Father Hugh T. Lavery at Consulate General office in Los Angeles, California, June 15, 1966. Older white-haired Caucasian man wearing eyeglasses and priest's collar holds medal in box and edge of certificate written in Japanese as Japanese man in suit holds left edge of certificate. Also includes Father McKillop holding medal next to Consul General and six other older Japanese men in same room.
![[Mrs. Tameji Eto receives Kunsho on behalf of her late husband at Japanese Consulate General's office, Los Angeles, California, January 8, 1959]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8401/thumbnail)
![[Kunsho award presentation at residence of Consul General of Japan, Los Angeles, California, June 27, 1968]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8830/thumbnail)
![[Kunsho award presentation at office of Consul General of Japan, Los Angeles, California, June 6, 1969]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8887/thumbnail)
![[Kunsho award presentation at Consul General of Japan's residence, Pasadena, California, May 22, 1970]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8968/thumbnail)
![[Father Bryce T. Nishimura officiating first Solemn High Mass at Maryknoll Church, Los Angeles, California, July 2, 1956]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8077/thumbnail)
Toyo Miyatake Studio
1962
![[Dr. Frank Buchman honored at Moral Re-armament (MRA) party, Los Angeles, California, March 20, 1957]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8156/thumbnail)
![[Kunsho award presentation at office of Consul General of Japan, Los Angeles, California, May 25, 1967 and banquet at Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, May 31, 1967]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8761/thumbnail)
![[Japanese Minister of International Trade and Industry, Takeo Miki's visit to Los Angeles, California, September 29-30, 1966 and October 1 and 3, 1966]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8708/thumbnail)
![[Mayor Kobayashi of Nagoya City, Japan and official Los Angeles-Nagoya sister city pact at City Hall, Los Angeles, California, March 31, 1959]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8413/thumbnail)
![[American Legion Award presentation at Berendo Junior High School, Los Angeles, California, June 13, 1958]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8359/thumbnail)
![[Japanese swim team at 1961 National AAU Swim Meet, Los Angeles, California, May 31, 1961]](/internal/media/dispatcher/8502/thumbnail)