NO oxidation was conducted over cobalt oxides supported on various supports such as SiO 2 , ZrO 2 , TiO 2 , and CeO 2 . The N 2 physisorption, an inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES), X-ray diffraction (XRD), NO chemisorptions, the temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) with a mass spectroscopy after NO or CO chemisorptions were conducted to characterize catalysts. Among tested catalysts, Co 3 O 4 supported on ceria with a high surface area showed the highest catalytic activity. This catalyst showed superior catalytic activity to unsupported Co 3 O 4 with a high surface area and 1 wt% Pt/γ-Al 2 O 3 . For ceria-supported Co 3 O 4 , the catalytic activity, the NO uptake at 298 K and the dispersion of Co 3 O 4 increased with increasing the surface area of CeO 2 . The active participation of the lattice oxygen in NO oxidation could not be observed. On the other hand, the lattice oxygen participated in the CO oxidation over the same catalyst. The deactivation was observed over Co 3 O 4 /CeO 2 and 1 wt% Pt/γ-Al 2 O 3 in the presence of SO 2 in a feed. 1 wt% Pt/γ-Al 2 O 3 was deactivated by SO 2 more rapidly compared with Co 3 O 4 /CeO 2 .