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Nobel laureate Osumi among Order of Culture recipients

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 28 Kyodo - Nobel Prize laureate Yoshinori Osumi attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2016, after being named as one of this year's Order of Culture recipients.

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Nobel laureate Osumi among Order of Culture recipients

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 28 Kyodo - Nobel Prize laureate Yoshinori Osumi attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2016, after being named as one of this year's Order of Culture recipients.

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Miyazaki to receive Academy's Honorary Award

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in February 2014 shows Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Aug. 28, 2014, it has picked Miyazaki as one of three recipients of its Honorary Award for the year.

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Japan Best Dresser award recipients

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 28, 2012 in Tokyo shows recipients of the 41st Best Dresser Award. Third from R is singer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, who attended the award ceremony wearing a fake moustache.

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Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize banquet

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Emperor Akihito (C) delivers an address at a banquet held at a Yokohama hotel on May 28 in honor of the first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize laureates, Prof. Miriam K. Were of Kenya and Dr. Brian Greenwood of Britain. The prize, awarded to the two recipients earlier in the day, is named after Japanese biologist Hideyo Noguchi, who died in Ghana in 1928 while carrying out research on yellow fever. (Pool photo)

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Comedy duo Bakusho Mondai, singer Nakajima to get cultural prize

TOKYO, Japan - Comedy duo Bakusho Mondai -- Yuji Tanaka (L) and Hikari Ota -- pose during a press conference in Tokyo on March 15 after they were chosen as one of 28 recipients of the Art Encouragement Prizes for fiscal 2005.

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Five artists win culture award

Five artists, including Academy Award-winning director Richard Attenborough from Britain, were named Oct. 28 as recipients of the 10th Prince Takamatsu Memorial Prize for outstanding cultural achievements. (from L to R) Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan, 67, American painter Robert Rauschenberg, 73, Attenborough, 75, and Russian musician Sofia Gubaidulina, 67. Another recipient, Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza, 65, is not in the photo.

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Chinese civil rights activist wins Int'l Women of Courage Award

Photo taken March 26, 2016, in Beijing shows Ni Yulan, a Chinese civil rights defender. The U.S. Department of State announced on March 28 that she is among the 14 recipients of the 2016 International Women of Courage Award. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chinese civil rights activist wins Int'l Women of Courage Award

Photo taken in March 2015 in Beijing shows Ni Yulan, a Chinese civil rights defender. The U.S. Department of State announced on March 28, 2016, that she is among the 14 recipients of the 2016 International Women of Courage Award. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese scientists awarded for nanofibrillated cellulose research

Akira Isogai (2nd from R), a professor at the University of Tokyo, receives the Marcus Wallenberg Prize from Carl XVI Gustaf, the King of Sweden, in Stockholm on Sept. 28, 2015. Co-recipients are Tsuguyuki Saito (L), an associate professor at the University of Tokyo, and Yoshiharu Nishiyama (2nd from L) of the Centre de recherches sur les macromolecules vegetales in France. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize banquet

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Emperor Akihito (C) delivers an address at a banquet held at a Yokohama hotel on May 28 in honor of the first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize laureates, Prof. Miriam K. Were of Kenya and Dr. Brian Greenwood of Britain. The prize, awarded to the two recipients earlier in the day, is named after Japanese biologist Hideyo Noguchi, who died in Ghana in 1928 while carrying out research on yellow fever. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Comedy duo Bakusho Mondai, singer Nakajima to get cultural prize

TOKYO, Japan - Comedy duo Bakusho Mondai -- Yuji Tanaka (L) and Hikari Ota -- pose during a press conference in Tokyo on March 15 after they were chosen as one of 28 recipients of the Art Encouragement Prizes for fiscal 2005. (Kyodo)

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Miyazaki to receive Academy's Honorary Award

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in February 2014 shows Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Aug. 28, 2014, it has picked Miyazaki as one of three recipients of its Honorary Award for the year. (Kyodo)

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Miyazaki to receive Academy's Honorary Award

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2014 shows Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki at Studio Ghibli in Koganei, Tokyo. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Aug. 28, 2014, it has picked Miyazaki as one of three recipients of its Honorary Award for the year. (Kyodo)

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Mori named recipient of Order of Culture

TOKYO, Japan - Pathologist Wataru Mori (in file photo) is one of five persons named by the government on Oct. 28 as recipients of the Order of Culture for 2003. (Kyodo)

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Recipient of 1st heart transplant meets press

OSAKA, Japan - The man with his back to the camera received a heart in Japan's first legal transplant from a brain-dead donor last February. Speaking to reporters on Feb. 25 ahead of the one-year anniversary of his operation, the man in his 40s said, ''I am really happy living together with my family.'' Other recipients received the liver, kidneys and corneas of the same donor in a series of operations conducted from Feb. 28 to March 1 under a 1997 law permitting organ transplants from brain-dead donors.

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Five artists win culture award

Five artists, including Academy Award-winning director Richard Attenborough from Britain, were named Oct. 28 as recipients of the 10th Prince Takamatsu Memorial Prize for outstanding cultural achievements. (from L to R) Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan, 67, American painter Robert Rauschenberg, 73, Attenborough, 75, and Russian musician Sofia Gubaidulina, 67. Another recipient, Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza, 65, is not in the photo.