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Japan's Africa medical award

TOKYO, Japan - Peter Piot, a medical doctor from Belgium, receives the Japanese government's Hideyo Noguchi Africa award during a ceremony at a hotel in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on June 1, 2013. Piot co-discovered the Ebola virus while leading a worldwide response action against AIDS. (Pool photo)

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Conferment ceremony of Japanese decoration

Peter Piot (R), former executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), receives the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun from Japanese Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2018. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Recipients of Japanese decorations

Recipients of Japanese grand cordons, including Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad (5th from R), former House of Councillors President Juro Saito (4th from R) and Peter Piot (R), a former executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), attend a photo session after a ceremony of conferment at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo