Omura returns home after winning Nobel medicine prize

Japanese biologist Satoshi Omura (C), a professor emeritus at Kitasato University, receives a warm welcome from students at the school in Tokyo on Oct. 6, 2015, a day after he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with two scientists from Ireland and China. The students lauded the 80-year-old Omura's achievement, saying that it inspires them to work harder in their own research. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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