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Harvard University holds graduation ceremony

Law School graduates march to the venue of commencement ceremonies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 29, 2025.

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Harvard University holds graduation ceremony

Graduates celebrate during commencement ceremonies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 29, 2025.

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Exhibit on history of abortion in U.S.

Photo taken on Jan. 6, 2023, shows an exhibit held at a Harvard University research library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion.

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Exhibit on history of abortion in U.S.

Photo taken on Jan. 6, 2023, shows an exhibit held at a Harvard University research library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion.

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Japan PM Abe makes speech at Harvard Univ.

CAMBRIDGE, United States, April 27 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe makes a speech at Harvard University in the United States on April 27, 2015. Abe is scheduled to meet with President Barack Obama a day later in Washington. (Pool photo)

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Banana peel slickness study nets Japanese team Ig Nobel award

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Kiyoshi Mabuchi (L front), a professor of Japan's Kitasato University, holds a banana speaking about the work by a group of researchers, including himself, measuring the friction that occurs when someone steps on a banana peel, which led to the winning of the spoof Ig Nobel Prize for physics in 2014, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 18, 2014.

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Banana peel slickness study nets Japanese team Ig Nobel award

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Kiyoshi Mabuchi, a professor of Japan's Kitasato University, holds a bunch of bananas during an interview with Kyodo News at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 18, 2014. The work by a group of researchers, including himself, measuring the friction that occurs when someone steps on a banana peel, led to the winning of the spoof Ig Nobel Prize for physics in 2014, which was awarded the same day at the university.

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Joseph Nye

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Joseph Nye, distinguished service professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, is interviewed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Nov. 13, 2013.

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Ig Nobel award

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Shinsuke Imai (C), a senior researcher at Japan's House Foods Corp., and Ishikawa Prefectural University President Hidehiko Kumagai (L) attend an award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 12, 2013. Their group won the spoof Ig Nobel chemistry prize for researching the possibility of a tear-free, yet flavorful, onion.

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Ig Nobel award

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Teikyo University School of Medicine Associate Professor Masanori Niimi (C) poses for photos with co-awardees during an award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 12, 2013. Their group won the spoof Ig Nobel medicine prize for studying how opera music affects mice heart transplants.

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Ig Nobel prize

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Japanese researchers Kazutaka Kurihara (C) and Koji Tsukada (R) speak during an award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 20, 2012. They won the spoof Ig Nobel acoustic prize for developing the SpeechJammer, a device that confuses and stifles a person speaking by sending the speaker a delayed recording of their own voice.

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Ig Nobel prize

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Japanese researchers Koji Tsukada (L) and Kazutaka Kurihara (C) receive the spoof Ig Nobel acoustic prize for developing the SpeechJammer, a device that confuses and stifles a person speaking by sending the speaker a delayed recording of their own voice, during an award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 20, 2012.

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'Wasabi fire alarm' wins Ig Nobel prize

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Yukinobu Tajima (L), head of the Fragrance Marketing Association, and Makoto Imai, assistant professor of Shiga University of Medical Science, speak with reporters at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Sept. 29, 2011 shortly before attending the award ceremony there for the 2011 Ig Nobel prizes. Seven Japanese researchers including Tajima and Imai were awarded the prize in chemistry for inventing a fire alarm device which informs people with hearing impediments of a fire by emitting a pungent ''wasabi'' horseradish smell.

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'Wasabi fire alarm' wins Ig Nobel prize

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Yukinobu Tajima, head of the Fragrance Marketing Association, in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, in April 2009 holding a fire alarm device that informs people with hearing impediments of a fire by emitting a pungent ''wasabi'' horseradish smell. Tajima, together with six other Japanese researchers, were awarded the 2011 Ig Nobel prize in chemistry at the award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 29, 2011, for inventing the device.

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Japanese among Ig Nobel winners

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Toshiyuki Nakagaki (C), professor at Future University Hakodate, jointly receives the Ig Nobel Prize at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre on Sept. 30, 2010, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The professor, along with Atsushi Tero, researcher at the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and Ryo Kobayashi, professor at Hiroshima University, and two British scholars, won the prize for using slime molds to determine optimal routes for railroad tracks.

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Japanese among Ig Nobel winners

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Toshiyuki Nakagaki, professor at Future University Hakodate, waves from the podium after jointly receiving the Ig Nobel Prize at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre on Sept. 30, 2010, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The professor, along with Atsushi Tero, researcher at the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and Ryo Kobayashi, professor at Hiroshima University, and two British scholars, won the prize for using slime molds for determining optimal routes for railroad tracks.

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Japanese among Ig Nobel winners

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Toshiyuki Nakagaki (L), professor at Future University Hakodate, jointly receives the Ig Nobel Prize at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre on Sept. 30, 2010, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The professor, along with Atsushi Tero, researcher at the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and Ryo Kobayashi, professor at Hiroshima University, and two British scholars, won the prize for using slime molds to determine optimal routes for railroad tracks.

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Taguchi wins Ig Nobel Prize for cutting waste using panda feces

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Fumiaki Taguchi, professor emeritus at the graduate school of medical sciences in Kitasato University, makes a speech during the Ig Noble awards ceremony at Harvard University's historic Sanders Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Oct. 1, 2009. Taguchi is among this year's winners of the Ig Nobel Prize for developing a method to cut kitchen refuse using bacteria derived from giant panda feces.

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Japanese win Ig Nobel Prize for for Cognitive Science Prize

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Toshiyuki Nakagaki (2nd from L), associate professor at Hokkaido University, Ryo Kobayashi (2nd from R), professor at Hiroshima University, and Atsushi Tero (L), a researcher at the Japan Science and Technology Agency, pose after they were awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for Cognitive Science at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Oct. 2. They discovered that a unicellular amoeboid organism can work out the shortest distance in a maze.

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1,221 bird species threatened with extinction

TOKYO, Japan - The Okinawa rail, a nearly flightless bird endemic to Okinawa island, is among 1,221 bird species considered threatened with extinction in a report released by BirdLife International, a bird conservation group based in Cambridge, England. The population of Okinawa rail is estimated at between 1,200 and 1,680, confined to the Yambaru area in northern Okinawa. According to BirdLife, 83 bird species in Japan are threatened or near threatened with extinction out of approximately 10,000 bird species in the world.

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Toyota to begin overseas production of Lexus

CAMBRIDGE, Canada - Toyota Motor Corp. will start producing a Lexus luxury model (in photo) overseas for the first time on Sept. 26 in Canada. Lexus models have so far been manufactured only in Japan as they require a large number of parts and advanced production know-how.