Mori plans awards for Shirakawa, Takahashi

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori plans to present Hideki Shirakawa (L), winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with the Order of Culture, and Naoko Takahashi (R), the marathon gold medalist in the Sydney Olympics, with the People's Honor Award.

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