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Ramon Magsaysay Award

Kenichi Yoda (C), director of Studio Ghibli, co-founded by Japanese anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, attends a ceremony of the Ramon Magsaysay Award on behalf of Miyazaki, one of the five recipients in 2024, in Manila on Nov. 16, 2024. The organization behind the award -- named after the Philippines' seventh president and known as "Asia's Nobel Prize" -- said in August that the 83-year-old makes complex issues like environmental destruction and conflict understandable to children in his works, including the Oscar-winning films "The Boy and the Heron" and "Spirited Away."

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Magsaysay award recipient watches over Thai slum children

BANGKOK, Thailand - Prateep Ungsongtham Hata (2nd from L), winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 1978, poses with children she watches over in the slum of Khlong Toei in Bangkok in this file photo taken on Sept. 24, 2014.

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Magsaysay award recipient watches over Thai slum children

BANGKOK, Thailand - Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 1978 for her contribution to helping raise Thai slum children, is photographed on Sept. 24, 2014, during an interview with Kyodo News in Bangkok.

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Statue of ex-Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay

MANILA, Philippines - A statue of former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay (1907-1957) stands in front of a wall bearing inscriptions of his ideals in Manila on Aug. 18, 2014. For 57 years, the Ramon Magsaysay award, touted as Asia's counterpart to the Nobel Prize, has commended individuals and organizations contributing to Asian society.

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Hiroshima Mayor receives Magsaysay Award

MANILA, Philippines - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (L) chats with Philippine President Benigno Aquino III during a ceremony for the Ramon Magsaysay Award in Manila on Aug. 31, 2010. Akiba received the prestigious award for his role in the global campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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Hiroshima Mayor receives Magsaysay Award

MANILA, Philippines - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba delivers a speech during a ceremony for the Ramon Magsaysay Award in Manila on Aug. 31, 2010. Akiba received the prestigious award for his role in the global campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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Hiroshima Mayor receives Magsaysay Award

MANILA, Philippines - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (R) receives a medal for the Ramon Magsaysay Award from Philippine President Benigno Aquino III in Manila on Aug. 31, 2010. Akiba received the prestigious award for his role in the global campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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Hiroshima mayor at Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation

MANILA, Philippines - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba delivers a speech at the head office of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation in Manila on Aug. 26, 2010. Akiba, one of the winners of the annual award, called for action to abolish nuclear weapons.

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Hiroshima mayor at Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation

MANILA, Philippines - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba delivers a speech at the head office of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation in Manila on Aug. 26, 2010. Akiba, one of the winners of the annual award, called for action to abolish nuclear weapons.

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Hiroshima mayor wins Ramon Magsaysay Award

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hiroshima City Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, who was announced as one of the recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay awards, known as Asia's version of the Nobel Prize, on Aug. 2, 2010.

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Physician Iwamura who devoted 18 years to Nepal's sick dies at 78

KOBE, Japan - Noboru Iwamura (in file photo), a physician who devoted 18 years of his life to offering medical services for the sick of Nepal, died of an acute respiratory failure at a Hyogo Prefecture hospital on Nov. 27, his family said. He was 78. Iwamura, a former professor at Kobe University School of Medicine, was awarded the 1993 Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding for his overseas service.

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Japanese painter Hirayama wins Magsaysay Award

MANILA, Philippines - Renowned Japanese painter Ikuo Hirayama (L) receives a medal for this year's Magsaysay Award, known as Asia's Nobel Prize, from Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in a ceremony at the Philippine Cultural Center near Manila on Aug. 31.

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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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Physician Iwamura who devoted 18 years to Nepal's sick dies at 7

KOBE, Japan - Noboru Iwamura (in file photo), a physician who devoted 18 years of his life to offering medical services for the sick of Nepal, died of an acute respiratory failure at a Hyogo Prefecture hospital on Nov. 27, his family said. He was 78. Iwamura, a former professor at Kobe University School of Medicine, was awarded the 1993 Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding for his overseas service. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima mayor wins Ramon Magsaysay Award

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hiroshima City Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, who was announced as one of the recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay awards, known as Asia's version of the Nobel Prize, on Aug. 2, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima Mayor receives Magsaysay Award

MANILA, Philippines - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba delivers a speech during a ceremony for the Ramon Magsaysay Award in Manila on Aug. 31, 2010. Akiba received the prestigious award for his role in the global campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima Mayor receives Magsaysay Award

MANILA, Philippines - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (L) chats with Philippine President Benigno Aquino III during a ceremony for the Ramon Magsaysay Award in Manila on Aug. 31, 2010. Akiba received the prestigious award for his role in the global campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima Mayor receives Magsaysay Award

MANILA, Philippines - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (R) receives a medal for the Ramon Magsaysay Award from Philippine President Benigno Aquino III in Manila on Aug. 31, 2010. Akiba received the prestigious award for his role in the global campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima mayor at Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation

MANILA, Philippines - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba delivers a speech at the head office of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation in Manila on Aug. 26, 2010. Akiba, one of the winners of the annual award, called for action to abolish nuclear weapons. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima mayor at Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation

MANILA, Philippines - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba delivers a speech at the head office of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation in Manila on Aug. 26, 2010. Akiba, one of the winners of the annual award, called for action to abolish nuclear weapons. (Kyodo)

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Magsaysay award recipient watches over Thai slum children

BANGKOK, Thailand - Prateep Ungsongtham Hata (2nd from L), winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 1978, poses with children she watches over in the slum of Khlong Toei in Bangkok in this file photo taken on Sept. 24, 2014. (Kyodo)

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2018 Magsaysay award

An official announces the winners of the 2018 Ramon Magsaysay Award in Manila, the Philippines, on July 26, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese scholar receives 2017 Magsaysay Award

Japan's Yoshiaki Ishizawa holds a commemorative gift after receiving the Ramon Magsaysay Award, one of Asia's highest honors, in Manila, the Philippines, on Aug. 31, 2017. Ishizawa, 79, a former president of Sophia University who spent decades helping to restore Cambodia's Angkor Wat, is one of the year's six recipients of the prestigious honor regarded as Asia's Nobel Prize. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese doctor Nakamura wins Magsaysay Award

FUKUOKA, Japan - Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura speaks to reporters in Fukuoka on July 30 after he won this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for his work in medical relief in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Kyodo)

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Japanese painter Hirayama wins Magsaysay Award

MANILA, Philippines - Renowned Japanese painter Ikuo Hirayama (L) receives a medal for this year's Magsaysay Award, known as Asia's Nobel Prize, from Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in a ceremony at the Philippine Cultural Center near Manila on Aug. 31.