Nobel Laureate Nakamura urges young Japanese to go abroad

Shuji Nakamura, professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and one of the three Nobel Physics Prize laureates in 2014, speaks at the Japan Society in New York on Oct. 14, 2015, urging young Japanese to go abroad and look at Japan from outside. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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