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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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Kanagawa Cancer Center announces new sepsis treatment

Makoto Akaike (R), chief of the Kanagawa Cancer Center, and Kozo Imai, director of the center's clinical research institute, announce a new treatment method for sepsis at a press conference in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, on March 24, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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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. (Kyodo)

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Order of Culture ceremony

(From L) Information engineering researcher Makoto Nagao, composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, tax law expert Hiroshi Kaneko, pottery artist Masayuki Imai, and playwright and critic Masakazu Yamazaki pose for photos after receiving the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo