Japanese painter Hirayama wins Magsaysay Award

Japanese painter Hirayama wins Magsaysay Award

TOKYO, Japan - Renowned Japanese painter Ikuo Hirayama (file photo) has won this year's Magsaysay Award, known as Asia's Nobel Prize and presented by the Manila-based Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation, the Foundation for Cultural Heritage in Tokyo said July 23.

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