Kan lauds Nobel laureates

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) chats with Nobel Prize winners in chemistry Akira Suzuki (C), a professor emeritus at Hokkaido University, and Eiichi Negishi, a professor at Purdue University, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2011. Kan handed them certificates of appreciation for their contributions in the field of science.

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