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Emperor and empress at Japan's Cosmos Prize ceremony

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attend a ceremony in Tokyo for the 30th anniversary of the International Cosmos Prize sponsored by Japan's Expo '90 Foundation on Nov. 14, 2023.

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Emperor and empress at Japan's Cosmos Prize ceremony

Japan's Emperor Naruhito (L) and Empress Masako (R) attend a ceremony in Tokyo for the 30th anniversary of the International Cosmos Prize sponsored by Japan's Expo '90 Foundation on Nov. 14, 2023.

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Emperor at Japan's Cosmos Prize ceremony

Japan's Emperor Naruhito speaks at a ceremony in Tokyo for the 30th anniversary of the International Cosmos Prize sponsored by Japan's Expo '90 Foundation on Nov. 14, 2023.

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Emperor at Japan's Cosmos Prize ceremony

Japan's Emperor Naruhito speaks at a ceremony in Tokyo for the 30th anniversary of the International Cosmos Prize sponsored by Japan's Expo '90 Foundation on Nov. 14, 2023.

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Thai historian Thongchai Winichakul given prize

Thailand's historian Thongchai Winichakul receives the Fukuoka Prize's "Grand Prize" in the city of Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 12, 2023. The prize was established by Fukuoka City and the Fukuoka City International Foundation to honor the outstanding work of individuals or organizations in preserving or creating Asian culture.

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No winner in lunar probe contest

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 24 Kyodo - File photo taken in Tokyo in November 2017 shows members of Japanese team Hakuto (on the left) posing with officials of the X Prize Foundation behind a replica of the team's entry for the foundation's lunar probe contest.

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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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3 Kyoto Prize winners attend award ceremony

KYOTO, Japan - Three Kyoto Prize winners (from L) -- Robert Samuel Langer, a biomedical engineer and institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Edward Witten, a theoretical physicist and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, and Fukumi Shimura, a Japanese dyeing and weaving artist, pose for photographs during an award ceremony in Kyoto, western Japan, on Nov. 10, 2014. The prize awarded by the Inamori Foundation honors those who have contributed to scientific, cultural and spiritual betterment.

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Japan Prize winners

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2014, shows Yasuharu Suematsu (L), honorary professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and C. David Allis, professor at The Rockefeller University in New York. The Japan Prize Foundation said that day the 2014 Japan Prize, recognizing scientific achievement with the betterment of society in mind, will be awarded to Suematsu and Allis. Suematsu won in the field of electronics, information and communication for his development of semiconductor lasers for telecommunications, and Allis won the prize for life sciences for his pioneering work in epigenetics, the study of the effect of structures other than DNA in the expression of genes.

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3 U.S. researchers given Japan Prize

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows John Frederick Grassle, professor emeritus at Rutgers University. The Japan Prize Foundation said on Jan. 30, 2013, the 2013 Japan Prize will be awarded to three U.S. researchers. The prize in the area of biological production and biological environment was given to Grassle for his findings on the biodiversity of deep-sea organisms, the foundation said.

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3 U.S. researchers given Japan Prize

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Jean M. J. Frechet, vice president for research at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. The Japan Prize Foundation said on Jan. 30, 2013, the 2013 Japan Prize will be awarded to three U.S. researchers. Frechet is one of the joint winners in the field of materials and production for developing materials that contributed to an innovative semiconductor manufacturing process.

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3 U.S. researchers given Japan Prize

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows C. Grant Willson, chemistry professor at the University of Texas at Austin. The Japan Prize Foundation said on Jan. 30, 2013, the 2013 Japan Prize will be awarded to three U.S. researchers. Willson is one of the joint winners in the field of materials and production for developing materials that contributed to an innovative semiconductor manufacturing process.

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Scholarship fund for children affected by March 11 disaster

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Masatoshi Koshiba, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, architect Tadao Ando and Fast Retailing Co. President Tadashi Yanai attend a press conference at the education ministry in Tokyo on May 18, 2011. They and others established a scholarship foundation the same day for children affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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2011 Japan Prize winners

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Prize laureates (from L) Toshio Hirano, dean of the Graduate School of Medicine at Osaka University, Tadamitsu Kishimoto, professor emeritus at Osaka University, and Kenneth Thompson, an engineer at Google Inc., pose for a photo in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2011, as the year's winner of the Japan Prize Foundation award. Kishimoto and Hirano discovered interleukin 6, leading to the development of treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, while Thompson, together with fellow award recipient Dennis Ritchie, developed the UNIX operating system.

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Professor Yamanaka receives Kyoto Prize

KYOTO, Japan - Shinya Yamanaka, a Kyoto University professor known for developing technologies to generate induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, receives a thread ball as a memento at the award ceremony in Kyoto on Nov. 10, 2010, for the 2010 Kyoto Prize, an international prize presented by the Inamori Foundation. Yamanaka was recognized for his contributions in the field of biotechnology and medical technology.

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3 men receive Kyoto Prize

KYOTO, Japan - 2010 Kyoto Prize laureates (from L) Shinya Yamanaka, a Kyoto University professor known for developing technologies to generate induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, Hungarian mathematician Laszlo Lovasz and South African artist William Kentridge pose with the award at a press conference in Kyoto on Nov. 10, 2010. The international prize is annually presented by the Inamori Foundation to those who have made significant contributions in the field of advanced technology, basic sciences, as well as arts and philosophy.

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Japan social activist Kagawa was Nobel literature prize nominee

TOKYO, Japan - The late Japanese social activist Toyohiko Kagawa (in this undated file photo) was on the nominee lists for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1947 and 1948, according to the Nobel Foundation website.

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Kyoto Prize awarded to 3 researchers from Canada, U.S.

KYOTO, Japan - (From L to R) Richard Karp, professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Anthony Pawson, professor at the University of Toronto, and Charles Taylor, professor emeritus at McGill University, pose for photos during a press conference in Kyoto on Nov. 10 after receiving the 2008 Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation for their contributions to information science, life science and philosophy, respectively.

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2 U.S. scholars named winners of Japanese environment award

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show Joseph Sax (R), professor emeritus at the University of California in Berkeley and a prominent environmental legal scholar, and Amory Lovins, chairman and chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an organization that mainly studies the efficient use of energy, who were named on June 21 by the Asahi Glass Foundation as the recipients of the 2007 Blue Planet Prize for their contributions to environmental conservation.

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3 European scientists receive Japan science awards

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attend an award ceremony for the Japan Prize in Tokyo on April 19. Three scientists -- Peter Ashton of Britain, Albert Fert of France and Peter Grunberg of Germany -- received the prize from the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan.

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3 European scientists receive Japan science awards

TOKYO, Japan - Albert Fert (L), 69, from France, a professor at Paris-Sud University with expertise in physics, receives the Japan Prize from the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan in Tokyo on April 19. Peter Ashton, 72, from Britain, a forestry professor at Harvard University, and Peter Grunberg, 67, of Germany's Research Center of Solid State Physics in Julich, also received the prize.

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3 European scientists get awards from Japan's science foundation

TOKYO, Japan - (From left to right) Peter Grunberg from Germany, Albert Fert from France and Peter Ashton from Britain who were named by the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan on Jan. 11 the winners of the government-backed Japan Prize for their scientific achievements. The ceremony to award them the prize will take place in Tokyo April 19.

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Prince Akishino attends Blue Planet Prize award-ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Prince Akishino (2nd from R) and his wife Princess Kiko (R) attend an award-ceremony of the Blue Planet Prize, the international environmental award sponsored by the Asahi Glass Foundation, in Tokyo on Nov. 15. (Pool photo)

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Prince Akishino attends Blue Planet Prize award-ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Prince Akishino speaks during an award-ceremony of the Blue Planet Prize, the international environmental award sponsored by the Asahi Glass Foundation, in Tokyo on Nov. 15.

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American PC developer Kay, 2 others win Kyoto Prize

KYOTO, Japan - The Inamori Foundation said June 11 it will award the 2004 Kyoto Prize to two Americans, Alan Curtis Kay (L) and Alfred George Knudson (C), and a German, Juergen Habermas (R). Kay, 64, will be awarded for developing personal computers, Knudson, 81, for helping establish the theory of the tumor suppressor gene in the mechanism of human carcinogenesis, and Habermas, 74, for contributions in the field of social philosophy.

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Ando, Hood, Gromov awarded Kyoto Prize

KYOTO, Japan - French mathematician Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov (L), U.S. biologist Leroy Edward Hood (C) and Japanese architect Tadao Ando (L) are awarded the 2002 Kyoto Prize, an annual international prize for contribution to science and the arts, by Inamori Foundation at a ceremony in Kyoto on Nov. 10.

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Winners of 2002 Kyoto Prize

KYOTO, Japan - Acclaimed Japanese architect Tadao Ando (top left), U.S. biologist Leroy Edward Hood (top right) and French mathematician Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov (lower left) have been named winners of 2002 Kyoto Prize in recognition of their contributions to mankind's scientific, cultural and spiritual betterment, the Inamori Foundation, the awarding body, said June 21.

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3 researchers win Japan Prize for 2002

TOKYO, Japan - The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan announces in Tokyo on Dec. 13 that the Japan Prize for 2002 will be awarded to Anne McLaren (L) of Britain, Andrzej Tarkowski (C) of Poland and Tim Berners-Lee of Britain. Mclaren, 74, a principal research associate at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Campaign Institute, and Tarkowski, 68, director of the Institute of Zoology at Warsaw University, share the prize in the field of health care and therapeutic science and technology for their contribution to the research of developmental biology of mammals. Berners-Lee, a senior researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Computer Science, is selected in the field of system science and technology for his invention of the World Wide Web.

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Japanese painter Hirayama wins Magsaysay Award

TOKYO, Japan - Renowned Japanese painter Ikuo Hirayama (file photo) has won this year's Magsaysay Award, known as Asia's Nobel Prize and presented by the Manila-based Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation, the Foundation for Cultural Heritage in Tokyo said July 23.

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McHarg awarded Japan Prize

TOKYO, Japan - Ian McHarg (L), 79, a professor emeritus in landscape architecture and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania, receives this year's Japan Prize in Tokyo on April 28 from the Tokyo-based Science and Technology Foundation of Japan. McHarg, who formulated his theories on ecological city planning in the 1960s, said ''unity with nature'' is essential in city planning.

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3 researchers win Japan Prize for 2002

TOKYO, Japan - The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan announces in Tokyo on Dec. 13 that the Japan Prize for 2002 will be awarded to Anne McLaren (L) of Britain, Andrzej Tarkowski (C) of Poland and Tim Berners-Lee of Britain. Mclaren, 74, a principal research associate at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Campaign Institute, and Tarkowski, 68, director of the Institute of Zoology at Warsaw University, share the prize in the field of health care and therapeutic science and technology for their contribution to the research of developmental biology of mammals. Berners-Lee, a senior researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Computer Science, is selected in the field of system science and technology for his invention of the World Wide Web.

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3 European scientists get awards from Japan's science foundation

TOKYO, Japan - (From left to right) Peter Grunberg from Germany, Albert Fert from France and Peter Ashton from Britain who were named by the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan on Jan. 11 the winners of the government-backed Japan Prize for their scientific achievements. The ceremony to award them the prize will take place in Tokyo April 19. (Kyodo)

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3 European scientists receive Japan science awards

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attend an award ceremony for the Japan Prize in Tokyo on April 19. Three scientists -- Peter Ashton of Britain, Albert Fert of France and Peter Grunberg of Germany -- received the prize from the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan. (Kyodo)

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3 European scientists receive Japan science awards

TOKYO, Japan - Albert Fert (L), 69, from France, a professor at Paris-Sud University with expertise in physics, receives the Japan Prize from the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan in Tokyo on April 19. Peter Ashton, 72, from Britain, a forestry professor at Harvard University, and Peter Grunberg, 67, of Germany's Research Center of Solid State Physics in Julich, also received the prize. (Kyodo)

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2 U.S. scholars named winners of Japanese environment award

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show Joseph Sax (R), professor emeritus at the University of California in Berkeley and a prominent environmental legal scholar, and Amory Lovins, chairman and chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an organization that mainly studies the efficient use of energy, who were named on June 21 by the Asahi Glass Foundation as the recipients of the 2007 Blue Planet Prize for their contributions to environmental conservation. (Kyodo)

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Ando, Hood, Gromov awarded Kyoto Prize

KYOTO, Japan - French mathematician Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov (L), U.S. biologist Leroy Edward Hood (C) and Japanese architect Tadao Ando (L) are awarded the 2002 Kyoto Prize, an annual international prize for contribution to science and the arts, by Inamori Foundation at a ceremony in Kyoto on Nov. 10. (Kyodo)

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Founder of Okinawa school for mixed-race kids talks about experience

Midori Thayer speaks in Tokyo on March 5, 2015, about her experience in founding and managing the AmerAsian School in Okinawa, southwestern Japan, for the education of children born to American and Asian parents. The school received the Japan Foundation Prize for Global Citizenship in February this year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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NPO brings Israeli, Palestinian students together in Japan

Photo taken March 3, 2016 shows Mari Murahashi, who has spent the last nine years bringing Israeli and Palestinian students together for an exchange program in Japan as an executive board member of Peace Field Japan. The Tokyo-based nonprofit organization was granted the Japan Foundation's Prize for Global Citizenship for fiscal 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Three men receive Kyoto Prize

(From L) Chemist Toyoki Kunitake, president of the Kitakyushu Foundation for the Advancement of Industry, Science and Technology in Japan, astrophysicist Michel Mayor, a professor emeritus at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, and choreographer John Neumeier, artistic director at the Hamburg Ballet in Germany, pose for photos on Nov. 10, 2015, in Kyoto after they received the Kyoto Prize for their contributions to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese scientists awarded for nanofibrillated cellulose research

Akira Isogai, a professor at the University of Tokyo, speaks at an award ceremony for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize in Stockholm on Sept. 28, 2015. Isogai, along with other researchers from Japan and France, won the prize from Sweden's Marcus Wallenberg Foundation for their research that contributes to the efficient production of nanofibrillated cellulose. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan social activist Kagawa was Nobel literature prize nominee

TOKYO, Japan - The late Japanese social activist Toyohiko Kagawa (in this undated file photo) was on the nominee lists for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1947 and 1948, according to the Nobel Foundation website. (Kyodo)

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Prince Akishino attends Blue Planet Prize award-ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Prince Akishino (2nd from R) and his wife Princess Kiko (R) attend an award-ceremony of the Blue Planet Prize, the international environmental award sponsored by the Asahi Glass Foundation, in Tokyo on Nov. 15. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Prince Akishino attends Blue Planet Prize award-ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Prince Akishino speaks during an award-ceremony of the Blue Planet Prize, the international environmental award sponsored by the Asahi Glass Foundation, in Tokyo on Nov. 15. (Kyodo)

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Kyoto Prize awarded to 3 researchers from Canada, U.S.

KYOTO, Japan - (From L to R) Richard Karp, professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Anthony Pawson, professor at the University of Toronto, and Charles Taylor, professor emeritus at McGill University, pose for photos during a press conference in Kyoto on Nov. 10 after receiving the 2008 Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation for their contributions to information science, life science and philosophy, respectively. (Kyodo)

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Professor Yamanaka receives Kyoto Prize

KYOTO, Japan - Shinya Yamanaka, a Kyoto University professor known for developing technologies to generate induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, receives a thread ball as a memento at the award ceremony in Kyoto on Nov. 10, 2010, for the 2010 Kyoto Prize, an international prize presented by the Inamori Foundation. Yamanaka was recognized for his contributions in the field of biotechnology and medical technology. (Kyodo)

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3 men receive Kyoto Prize

KYOTO, Japan - 2010 Kyoto Prize laureates (from L) Shinya Yamanaka, a Kyoto University professor known for developing technologies to generate induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, Hungarian mathematician Laszlo Lovasz and South African artist William Kentridge pose with the award at a press conference in Kyoto on Nov. 10, 2010. The international prize is annually presented by the Inamori Foundation to those who have made significant contributions in the field of advanced technology, basic sciences, as well as arts and philosophy. (Kyodo)

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Scholarship fund for children affected by March 11 disaster

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Masatoshi Koshiba, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, architect Tadao Ando and Fast Retailing Co. President Tadashi Yanai attend a press conference at the education ministry in Tokyo on May 18, 2011. They and others established a scholarship foundation the same day for children affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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3 Kyoto Prize winners attend award ceremony

KYOTO, Japan - Three Kyoto Prize winners (from L) -- Robert Samuel Langer, a biomedical engineer and institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Edward Witten, a theoretical physicist and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, and Fukumi Shimura, a Japanese dyeing and weaving artist, pose for photographs during an award ceremony in Kyoto, western Japan, on Nov. 10, 2014. The prize awarded by the Inamori Foundation honors those who have contributed to scientific, cultural and spiritual betterment. (Kyodo)

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2011 Japan Prize winners

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Prize laureates (from L) Toshio Hirano, dean of the Graduate School of Medicine at Osaka University, Tadamitsu Kishimoto, professor emeritus at Osaka University, and Kenneth Thompson, an engineer at Google Inc., pose for a photo in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2011, as the year's winner of the Japan Prize Foundation award. Kishimoto and Hirano discovered interleukin 6, leading to the development of treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, while Thompson, together with fellow award recipient Dennis Ritchie, developed the UNIX operating system. (Kyodo)