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2000 Nobel prize laureate in chemistry Shirakawa dies at 90

File photo shows Hideki Shirakawa meeting the media after receiving the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry at the award ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10, 2000. Shirakawa, a professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba, died at age 90 on Aug. 24, 2026.

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Illuminations in Yamanashi

MINOBU, Japan - Sightseers look at illuminated houses in Minobu, Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 10, 2011. Residents of two houses in the mountainous town started the illuminations in December 2000 to entertain their grandchildren. The custom, which is observed every December, has spread to 38 houses, drawing visitors from as far away as Tokyo.

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Yoshii, Sosa attend press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa (R) puts his arm around New York Mets pitcher Masato Yoshii at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 10 to announce that the Cubs and the Mets will open the 2000 regular season with official games in Japan next March.

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Osaka_RedCross_Hospital-Press_Conference

Osaka Red Cross - Press Conference : March 10, 2000 (March 11, 2000) Police on Saturday raided the Osaka Red Cross Hospital over the death last year of a cancer patient who was accidentally given an incorrect dosage of an anticancer agent. The hospital in Osaka's Tennoji Ward is accused of professional negligence resulting in death. Following the instructions of a 27-year-old male intern who was the patient's attending physician, a nurse administered 80 milligrams of an anticancer agent intravenously to the patient on the morning on Dec. 27 last year, investigators said. By the evening of the same day, the 63-year-old patient was suffering stomach pains, diarrhea and other side affects. He died of multiple organ failure on Jan. 13, the investigators said. The doctor had intended the patient to receive 10 mg of an anticancer agent but accidentally prescribed a different agent and gave incorrect guidance to the nurse on the adequate dosage, the investigators said.

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Illuminations in Yamanashi

MINOBU, Japan - Sightseers look at illuminated houses in Minobu, Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 10, 2011. Residents of two houses in the mountainous town started the illuminations in December 2000 to entertain their grandchildren. The custom, which is observed every December, has spread to 38 houses, drawing visitors from as far away as Tokyo. (Kyodo)

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Yoshii, Sosa attend press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa (R) puts his arm around New York Mets pitcher Masato Yoshii at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 10 to announce that the Cubs and the Mets will open the 2000 regular season with official games in Japan next March.