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Japan's Nobel laureate in medicine Tonegawa dies

Susumu Tonegawa receives a congratulatory phone call after being named the winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine at his home in the Boston suburbs on Oct. 12, 1987. Tonegawa, Japan's first recipient of the prize and a longtime professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died on July 11, 2026, aged 86.

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Japanese actress Kumiko Goto

Photo taken on July 11, 1987, shows Japanese actress Kumiko Goto.

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Japanese actress to read A-bomb victims' poems in U.S.

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actress Sayuri Yoshinaga has been invited by a U.S. peace group to read half a dozen poems, written by survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in Port Townsend, a town near Seattle, Washington State, on July 11 (local time). She has been traveling across Japan to read poems for peace since 1987.

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Japanese actress to read A-bomb victims' poems in U.S.

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actress Sayuri Yoshinaga has been invited by a U.S. peace group to read half a dozen poems, written by survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in Port Townsend, a town near Seattle, Washington State, on July 11 (local time). She has been traveling across Japan to read poems for peace since 1987.