Battledores of 2018 newsmakers

Battledores of 2018 newsmakers

Traditional Japanese "hagoita" battledores decorated with reliefs of newsmakers of the year 2018 are pictured in Tokyo on Dec. 5, 2018. Those featured include Tasuku Honjo (R), a Kyoto University professor and joint winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and Haruo Obata, a search volunteer who gained attention after finding a missing 2-year-old boy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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  • 2018/12/05 10:57:27
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