[2] 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] The original Japanese list does not assign strict chronological numbering, rather by 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.