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Pritzker Prize-winning Japan architect Maki dies at 95

Photo taken in March 2014 in Tokyo shows Hillside Terrace, a building complex consisting of residences, shops and offices designed by renowned Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki. Maki, who in 1993 won the Pritzker Prize, dubbed the Nobel Prize of architecture, died at the age of 95 at his home in Tokyo on June 6, 2024.

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Pritzker Prize-winning Japan architect Maki dies at 95

Photo taken in March 2014 in Tokyo shows Hillside Terrace, a building complex consisting of residences, shops and offices designed by renowned Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki. Maki, who in 1993 won the Pritzker Prize, dubbed the Nobel Prize of architecture, died at the age of 95 at his home in Tokyo on June 6, 2024.

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Tokyo Skytree lit up in 4 colors

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest free-standing tower, is illuminated in the three primary colors of red, green and blue (from L) and their combined color of white (far R) with LED lighting in Tokyo on Dec. 11, 2014, in an event to celebrate three Japan-born winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 for developing an efficient blue LED.

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3 Japan-born Nobel laureates receive prize

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - (From L) Isamu Akasaki, a professor at Meijo University in Nagoya, Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Nagoya University, and Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, pose for photos with their medals after the award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in the Swedish capital on Dec. 10, 2014. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Nagoya landmarks lit by blue LEDs to hail Nobel prize

NAGOYA, Japan - The Nagoya TV Tower and the Oasis 21 complex (foreground) are illuminated in blue with light-emitting diodes in Nagoya on Dec. 10, 2014, in celebration of the winning of the Nobel Prize in Physics by Nagoya University professor Hiroshi Amano and Meijo University professor Isamu Akasaki for inventing the blue LED. Both universities are located in the central Japan city. Another Japanese scientist, University of California professor Shuji Nakamura, also shared the honor for the same invention.

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Chef of expressway restaurant speaks as contest winner

OSAKA, Japan - Master chef Hayato Kitahara (extreme R) at a restaurant in the Kawanobori Service Area on the Nagasaki Expressway in Takeo, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, speaks in Osaka on Dec. 10, 2014, after winning the first prize in the second contest for dishes offered in expressway parking areas in western Japan. The Kawanobori restaurant won the prize for the second consecutive year.

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Fixer helps Nobel laureate in blue LED invention

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Akio Ishida, a senior researcher at the Japan Science and Technology Agency, speaks after listening to commemorative lectures by three Japanese winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm on Dec. 8, 2014. Ishida played a leading role in linking the work of Isamu Akasaki, one of the three Nobel laureates and the world's first inventor of a blue light-emitting diode, with LED manufacturers.

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3 Nobel laureates get ready for award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - (From L) Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Isamu Akasaki, a professor at Japan's Meijo University, and Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Japan's Nagoya University, shake hands during a press conference on Dec. 8, 2014, in Stockholm, Sweden, prior to the award ceremony for the year's Nobel Prize in Physics on Dec. 10.

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3 Nobel laureates get ready for award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - (From L) Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Japan's Nagoya University, and Isamu Akasaki, a professor at Japan's Meijo University, attend a press conference on Dec. 8, 2014, in Stockholm, Sweden, prior to the award ceremony for the year's Nobel Prize in Physics on Dec. 10.

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6th grader wins grand prize for ESD nickname

TOKYO, Japan - Haruna Horinouchi (C) is awarded the grand prize in Tokyo on June 21, 2014, for coming up with the nickname chosen for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), a U.N. program. "Kyo yori ii earth e no manabi (Learning for the better earth than today)" was selected.

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Fukushima Univ. students' sake wins 1st prize at contest

AIZUWAKMATSU, Japan - Inokichi Shinjo (L), head of the association of sake brewers in Aizuwakamatsu in the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Fukushima, and a Fukushima University student hold bottles of newly developed sake in December 2014 in the prefecture. The sake produced based on the idea proposed by students including her won the first prize at a contest held by the association to seek plans to promote locally produced sake.

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Japan, China hold 1st gov't meeting since leaders' summit

BEIJING, China - Hiroshi Amano, one of the three Japan-born scientists to win this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing efficient blue light-emitting diodes, delivers a speech at the eighth Japan-China Energy Conservation Forum in China's capital Beijing on Dec. 28, 2014. The forum is the first major governmental meeting since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's first meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Nov. 10.

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People queue to buy lottery tickets at 'lucky' booth

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - People wait in line to buy lottery tickets at the Kotoshiba Chance Center in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, as seen in this file photo taken in November 2014. The center sold a first prize-winning ticket for the "Yearend Jumbo Lottery" in three of the last four years.

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Nishikori earns top prize at annual pro sports awards

TOKYO, Japan - Professional tennis player Kei Nishikori appears in a video message at the Japan Pro Sports Awards in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2014, after being named winner of the grand prize. Currently training in the United States, Nishikori said in the video, "This was a fulfilling year. I want to do my best so I can appear in more Grand Slam finals next year."

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Orix pitcher Kaneko wins outstanding performance prize

TOKYO, Japan - Orix Buffaloes pitcher Chihiro Kaneko speaks during a ceremony at the Japan Pro Sports Awards in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2014, after receiving an Outstanding Performance Award. He has also been named this year's most valuable player of the Pacific League.

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Yokozuna Hakuho wins outstanding performance prize

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo grand champion Hakuho speaks during a ceremony at the Japan Pro Sports Awards in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2014, after receiving an Outstanding Performance Award. He won his 32nd career grand sumo tournament this year to equal the total championships of legendary yokozuna Taiho.

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S. Korea's ex-bigwigs support Japan's pacifist constitution

SEOUL, South Korea - Former political, business and other leaders in South Korea attend a press conference in Seoul on Dec. 18, 2014, to support a campaign to nominate the Japanese Constitution's war-renouncing Article 9 as a candidate for the Noble Peace Prize.

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Japan's lunar explorer robot successfully runs on dunes

HAMAMATSU, Japan - A lunar explorer robot developed by Hakuto, the only Japanese team competing for the Google Luna XPrize that is led by Tohoku University Professor Kazuya Yoshida, makes a successful test run on the Nakatajima Sand Dunes in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Dec. 18, 2014. A total of 18 teams are competing in the contest, with a grand prize of 20 million dollars for the first team to land safely on the lunar surface, move 500 meters, and transmit high-definition images and video back to Earth.

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Nobel laureate Amano shows certificate upon return home

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya University professor Hiroshi Amano, one of the three Japanese physicists awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, shows his certificate at a press conference at Chubu Centrair International Airport near Nagoya, central Japan, on Dec. 16, 2014, upon returning home from an award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Nobel laureate Amano returns from Stockholm

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya University Professor Hiroshi Amano, who won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, holds his Nobel Prize medal as he arrived at the Chubu Centrair International Airport in the central Japan city of Tokonome on Dec. 16, 2014, from Stockholm, Sweden, where he attended the award ceremony. He said, "The entire week was like a dream."

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Nobel laureate Amano returns from Stockholm

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya University Professor Hiroshi Amano (L), who won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, holds up the Nobel Prize medal in his left hand and a medal made from chocolate in his right, while his wife Kasumi holds the Nobel Prize diploma, at Chubu Centrair International Airport in central Japan on Dec. 16, 2014, upon arrival from Stockholm, Sweden, where he attended the award ceremony. He said, "The entire week was like a dream."

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Nobel laureate Amano returns from Stockholm

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya University Professor Hiroshi Amano (L), who won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, and his wife Kasumi arrive at Chubu Centrair International Airport in the central Japan city of Tokonome on Dec. 16, 2014, from Stockholm, Sweden, where he attended the award ceremony. He said, "The entire week was like a dream."

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Skyscraper Abeno Harukas wins special prize for active firm

OSAKA, Japan - An aerial view of Abeno Harukas in Osaka, western Japan, is shown in a file photo taken in June 2014. The tallest skyscraper in Japan was awarded a special prize for 2014 by the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry for its huge attraction of visitors in Osaka and vicinity.

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Nobel laureate Amano gives lecture at Swedish university

UPPSALA, Sweden - Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Japan's Nagoya University and one of the three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, gives a lecture at Sweden's Uppsala University in Uppsala, north of Stockholm, on Dec. 13, 2014, following the Dec. 10 Nobel award ceremony.

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Nobel laureate Amano gives lecture at Swedish university

UPPSALA, Sweden - Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Japan's Nagoya University and one of the three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, gives a lecture at Sweden's Uppsala University in Uppsala, north of Stockholm, on Dec. 13, 2014, following the Dec. 10 Nobel award ceremony. In response to a question from the audience, Amano advised attendees to think deeply before making career decisions.

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Nobel laureate Akasaki returns home

TOKYO, Japan - Isamu Akasaki, a Meijo University professor who shared this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, shows off the Nobel medal at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Dec. 12, 2014, after returning from Stockholm, where he attended the award ceremony. He said the Nobel medal is "heavy."

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Nobel laureate Akasaki returns home

TOKYO, Japan - Isamu Akasaki, a Meijo University professor who shared this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, attends a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Dec. 12, 2014, after returning from Stockholm, where he attended the award ceremony. He said the Nobel medal is "heavy."

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3 Nobel laureates make commemorative speeches

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - (From R) Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Japan's Nagoya University, Isamu Akasaki, a professor at Japan's Meijo University, and Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, receive applause after making commemorative speeches for the year's Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 8, 2014, prior to the Dec. 10 award ceremony.

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Nobel laureate Amano makes speech in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Japan's Nagoya University and one of three scientists awarded the year's Nobel Prize in Physics, makes a commemorative speech in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 8, 2014, prior to the Dec. 10 award ceremony.

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Nobel laureate Akasaki makes speech in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Isamu Akasaki, a professor at Japan's Meijo University and one of three scientists awarded the year's Nobel Prize in Physics, makes a commemorative speech in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 8, 2014, prior to the Dec. 10 award ceremony.

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Oda gets Japanese pro golf tour money title

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese golfer Komei Oda (R) receives a trophy for his first money title on the men's Japan Golf Tour for 2014 from veteran Isao Aoki during an award ceremony in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2014. Oda also won for the first time the awards for most valuable player and stroke average as well as a golf press prize.

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Skater Hanyu wins top prize in Yahoo Search Awards

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu, who won the gold medal at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games, speaks in a video message as the winner of the top prize for the biggest overall increase in the number of searches on Yahoo Japan between Jan. 1 and Nov. 1, 2014, at the award ceremony in Tokyo on Dec. 8. Yahoo Japan Corp. handed out Yahoo Search Awards in the fields of people, culture and products.

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Nihon Elekiteru Rengo wins prize in Yahoo Search Awards

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese comedian duo Nihon Elekiteru Rengo poses after winning an award for the biggest increase in the number of search on Yahoo Japan between Jan. 1 and Nov. 1, 2014, at the award ceremony in Tokyo on Dec. 8. Yahoo Japan Corp. handed out Yahoo Search Awards in the fields of people, culture and products.

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Nobel laureate Amano in Stockholm for ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Japan's Nagoya University and one of the three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, gives an interview with Kyodo News at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Dec. 7, 2014, ahead of the Dec. 10 award ceremony.

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Nobel laureates meet the press prior to award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Shuji Nakamura (R), a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Hiroshi Amano (2nd from R), a professor at Japan's Nagoya University, attend an official press conference with other 2014 Nobel Prize winners at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Dec. 7, 2014, prior to the Dec. 10 award ceremony. Nakamura and Amano, along with Meijo University professor Isamu Akasaki, who did not attend the press conference, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing and developing the blue light-emitting diode.

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Nobel laureates meet the press prior to award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Shuji Nakamura (R), a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Japan's Nagoya University, share a lighthearted moment during a press conference with other 2014 Nobel Prize winners at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Dec. 7, 2014, prior to the Dec. 10 award ceremony. Nakamura and Amano, along with Meijo University professor Isamu Akasaki, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing and developing the blue light-emitting diode.

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Nobel laureates Amano, Nakamura donate items to Nobel Museum

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Items donated by two Japan-born winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics are seen at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm on Dec. 6, 2014. At front are experimental tools used by Hiroshi Amano, a professor at Nagoya University, while donations by Shuji Nakamura, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, are shown in back.

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French anthropologist Descola wins Japan's Cosmos Prize

TOKYO, Japan - French anthropologist Philippe Descola speaks in an undated interview as a winner of the 2014 International Cosmos Prize sponsored by Japan's Foundation for the International Garden and Greenery Exposition for his ethnographic studies in the Amazon region in South America.

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Nobel laureate Amano leaves for Stockholm

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya University Professor Hiroshi Amano, one of the three scientists awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, waves at Chubu Centrair International Airport in the central Japan city of Tokoname on Dec. 5, 2014, as he leaves for Stockholm to attend the Dec. 10 award ceremony. He said he hopes to encourage young people in his speech in the Swedish capital.

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Nobel laureate Amano to leave for Stockholm

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya University Professor Hiroshi Amano, one of the three scientists awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, attends a press conference on Dec. 5, 2014, at Chubu Centrair International Airport in the central Japan city of Tokoname before leaving for Stockholm to attend the Dec. 10 award ceremony. He said he hopes to encourage young people in his speech in the Swedish capital.

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Bakery produces hamburger using prickled plum sauce

WAKAYAMA, Japan - A worker at a Kawa bakery chain shop in Yuasa, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, shows off on Nov. 23, 2014, a hamburger using sauce made from prickled plums of the premier "Kishu Ume" brand, a local specialty. The hamburger won the first prize at the Tottori Burger Festa 2014 competition of hamburgers using local foodstuffs held in Daisen, Tottori Prefecture, on Nov. 8-9.

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Filipino director Pasion: winner of Tokyo film award

TOKYO, Japan - Filipino director Francis Xavier Pasion, winner of the Tokyo Filmex 2014 Grand Prize for his film "Crocodile," addresses the audience in this photo taken on Nov. 29, 2014.

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Japan's 2014 newsmakers featured on battledores

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo's doll maker Kyugetsu Co. displays on Dec. 3, 2014, traditional Japanese "hagoita" battledores decorated with reliefs featuring this year's newsmakers such as red-hot tennis player Kei Nishikori, female comic duo "Nippon Erekiteru Rengo" and scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Emperor, empress attend biology award ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attend the International Prize for Biology award ceremony at the Japan Academy's assembly hall in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2014. On the far left is this year's prize winner, Yale University professor Peter Crane.

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German student wins love letter contest in Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Quitz Anna Milena, a German university student, speaks after winning the first prize at the fifth love letter contest award ceremony in Kyoto on Nov. 29, 2014. She had studied in Japan for two years until September 2014.

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Trap-net fish firm in Ishikawa Pref. gets PM award

TOKYO, Japan - Hidenobu Sakai (L), head of the Kadoshima trap-net fishery in Nanao, a seaport on the Sea of Japan in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (C) pose for a photograph at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 26, 2014, after the firm was awarded the Prime Minister's prize for revitalizing the local community.

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Shiogama Port Festival in Miyagi Pref. gets PM award

TOKYO, Japan - Kankuro Abe (L), head of the executive committee of Shiogama Port Festival in Miyagi Prefecture, and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (C) pose for a photograph at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 26, 2014, after the festival was awarded the Prime Minister's prize for an event contributing to regional development.

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Japan footballer Sawa commended for playing 300 matches

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran women's soccer midfielder Homare Sawa (R) of INAC Kobe Leonessa gets a bouquet of flowers along with a special prize for having competed in 300 matches in her career at a Nadeshiko League annual award ceremony at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 25, 2014.

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Nobel winner Nakamura meets with U.S. Pres. Obama

WASHINGTON, United States - Shuji Nakamura, professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, delivers a lecture at the Embassy of Sweden in Washington on Nov. 24, 2014. Nakamura, one of the three Japan-born scientists awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, met U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House the same day along with three other U.S. winners of the 2014 Nobel prizes.

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Nobel winner Amano, previous laureates pose for photos

TOKYO, Japan - Nagoya University professor Hiroshi Amano (4th from L), one of the three Japan-born scientists to win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, poses for photos with previous Nobel laureates, Swedish Ambassador to Japan Magnus Robach (5th from L) and others at the Swedish ambassador's residence in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2014.