The Tawara Award, the best paper award of the journal Tetsu-to-Hagané, is given to the contributor of the most academically and technically useful paper published in Tetsu-to-Hagané over the past year.
The Paper Award for Young Researchers is given to a young author (first author) who has contributed a paper that is deemed to be particularly excellent academically and technically and has great potential for future development, based on a review of papers published in Tetsu-to-Hagané over the past year. This award was newly established in 2023.
The Distinguished Article Award has newly been instituted in 2019 to praise the most influential paper in academic and/or technical respects over the past ten years. The award-winning paper is to be chosen from among the articles published in Tetsu-to-Hagané and/or ISIJ International journals ten (± one) years ago as a general rule.