On November 4, 2022, Ambassador Tamaki Tsukada, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Japan in the United States, conferred the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon on U.S. CULCON’s Secretary-General Paige Cottingham-Streater. Ms. Cottingham-Streater received this Imperial award in recognition of her contributions to the promotion of people-to-people exchanges and mutual understanding between Japan and the United States