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Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel and Princess Takamado at a reception at Hotel Okura organized by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. The Crown Princess poses for a photograph together with Nobel laureates Simon Sakaguchi, Susumu Kitagawa and Ryoji Noyori. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel and Princess Takamado at a reception at Hotel Okura organized by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. The Crown Princess poses for a photograph together with Nobel laureates Simon Sakaguchi, Susumu Kitagawa and Ryoji Noyori. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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Obokata failed to replicate "STAP cell" creation

TOKYO, Japan - Riken President Ryoji Noyori, a 2001 Nobel laureate in chemistry, is surrounded by reporters at the science ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2014, as the Japanese research institute announced that embattled scientist Haruko Obokata has failed in experiments to produce the cells that she previously claimed to have created.

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Riken to halve scale of Center for Developmental Biology

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori, the Nobel chemistry laureate and president of the government-backed Riken research institute, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2014, after submitting a plan to Hakubun Shimomura, minister in charge of science and technology, to halve the scale of the Center for Developmental Biology after it failed to prevent researcher Haruko Obokata's misconduct.

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Riken to halve its size following STAP cell scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Riken President Ryoji Noyori meets with reporters on Aug. 27, 2014, at the science ministry in Tokyo, Japan, after reporting to science minister Hakubun Shimomura that the government-affiliated research institute will halve its size in the wake of the STAP cell scandal.

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RIKEN chief Noyori meets wife of former Qatar emir

KOBE, Japan - Ryoji Noyori (R), a Nobel laureate and president of RIKEN, Japan's largest scientific think tank, speaks during a meeting with Her Highness Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of Qatar's former emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, at the government-funded research institute in Kobe, western Japan, on April 24, 2014.

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Wife of former Qatar emir visits RIKEN

KOBE, Japan - Her Highness Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned, wife of Qatar's former emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, exchanges views with RIKEN leaders, including President Ryoji Noyori, a Nobel laureate, at the government-funded research institute in Kobe, western Japan, on April 24, 2014.

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STAP cell papers

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori, Nobel Prize laureate and president of the Japanese government-backed Riken institute, holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 1, 2014. Riken acknowledged as fraudulent earlier in the day some portions of purportedly trailblazing stem cell papers by its researchers and others, saying that the papers' lead author, Haruko Obokata, both manipulated and fabricated data underpinning their findings on the so-called STAP cells.

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STAP cell papers

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori, Nobel Prize laureate and president of the Japanese government-backed Riken institute, holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 1, 2014. Riken acknowledged as fraudulent earlier in the day some portions of purportedly trailblazing stem cell papers by its researchers and others, saying that the papers' lead author, Haruko Obokata, both manipulated and fabricated data underpinning their findings on the so-called STAP cells.

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STAP cell papers

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori, Nobel Prize laureate and president of the Japanese government-backed Riken institute, holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 1, 2014. Riken acknowledged as fraudulent earlier in the day some portions of purportedly trailblazing stem cell papers by its researchers and others, saying that the papers' lead author, Haruko Obokata, both manipulated and fabricated data underpinning their findings on the so-called STAP cells.

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Stem cell papers

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori, Nobel Prize laureate and president of the Japanese government-backed Riken institute, holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 1, 2014. Riken acknowledged as fraudulent earlier in the day some portions of purportedly trailblazing stem cell papers by its researchers and others, saying that the papers' lead author both manipulated and fabricated data underpinning their findings.

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Riken admits malpractice in STAP papers

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori (2nd from R), Nobel Prize laureate and president of the government-affiliated Riken institute, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2014, to provide an interim report on the institute's investigation into allegations concerning two recent papers on potentially groundbreaking stem cell research. Riken admitted that the papers on so-called STAP cells show aspects of serious malpractice.

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Riken admits malpractice in STAP papers

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori (2nd from R), Nobel Prize laureate and president of the government-affiliated Riken institute, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2014, to provide an interim report on the institute's investigation into allegations concerning two recent papers on potentially groundbreaking stem cell research. Riken admitted that the papers on so-called STAP cells show aspects of serious malpractice.

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Riken admits malpractice in STAP papers

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori, Nobel Prize laureate and president of the government-affiliated Riken institute, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2014, to provide an interim report on the institute's investigation into allegations concerning two recent papers on potentially groundbreaking stem cell research. Riken admitted that the papers on so-called STAP cells show aspects of serious malpractice.

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Riken admits malpractice in STAP papers

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori (2nd from R), Nobel Prize laureate and president of the government-affiliated Riken institute, and other institute officials apologize during a press conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2014, to provide an interim report on the institute's investigation into allegations concerning two recent papers on potentially groundbreaking stem cell research. Riken admitted that the papers on so-called STAP cells show aspects of serious malpractice.

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Riken admits malpractice in STAP papers

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori, Nobel Prize laureate and president of the government-affiliated Riken institute, listens to a reporter's question at a press conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2014, to provide an interim report on the institute's investigation into allegations concerning two recent papers on potentially groundbreaking stem cell research. Riken admitted that the papers on so-called STAP cells show aspects of serious malpractice.

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CORRECTED Allegations over stem cell papers

TOKYO, Japan - CORRECTING NAME OF INSTITUTE LED BY NOYORI Ryoji Noyori (2nd from R), president of the government-affiliated Riken institute, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 14, 2014, to provide an interim report on the institute's investigation into allegations concerning two recent papers on potentially groundbreaking stem cell research. Haruko Obokata of the institute and other researchers said in the papers they have found a simple way to produce STAP cells, which are named for stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency.

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Abe meets Nobel laureates

KOBE, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (front) visits a laboratory belonging to Riken, a company that deals with the research of induced pluripotent stem cells in Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 11, 2013. At left is Shinya Yamanaka, who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine for the research of iPS cells. At center is Ryoji Noyori, Riken president and Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate. (Pool photo)

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Japanese supercomputer becomes world's No. 1 in computing speeds

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori (2nd from L), a 2001 Nobel laureate in chemistry and president of Riken, a Japanese state-backed major research institute, and others pose during a press conference in Tokyo on June 20, 2011, at which they announced that a supercomputer, nicknamed ''K,'' being jointly developed in Kobe, western Japan, by Riken and Fujitsu Ltd. has been ranked the world's No. 1 in current computing speeds, the first time since 2004 that a Japanese supercomputer has captured the top position.

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Gov't plan to cut tech budget sparks criticism from scientists

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Reona Esaki, the 1973 Nobel laureate in physics, Susumu Tonegawa, the 1987 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, Shigefumi Mori, the 1990 winner of the Fields Medal, Ryoji Noyori, the 2001 Nobel laureate in chemistry, and Makoto Kobayashi, the 2008 Nobel laureate in physics, hold a joint news conference at the University of Tokyo in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2009. They severely criticized a government body's recent instruction to slash science and technology-related budget allocations.

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Nobel winner Noyori raps drive to cut science budget

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel chemistry laureate Ryoji Noyori (2nd from R), speaks about a government working group's recommendation to cut the science and technology budget at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2009. Noyori said the recommendation lacks insight and will leave Japan trailing behind in scientific fields.

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Education panel seeks new gov't body to follow up on proposals

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel chemistry laureate Ryoji Noyori (R), who heads a panel on educational reform, submits its final report to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Jan. 31 at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 31. The report asks the government to create a new body to follow up on its recommendations for improving Japan's public education system.

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Panel proposes holding school classes on Saturday

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shizo Abe (L) receives a proposal report for educational reforms from Ryoji Noyori, a Nobel chemistry laureate who heads the government education reform panel, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 1.

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Educational panel proposes longer classroom hours

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel Prize laureate chemist Ryoji Noyori (R), who heads an educational reform panel, hands to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a report, featuring proposals to prolong classroom hours and allow teachers to rely on now-banned punitive behaviors, as part of efforts to review the school system in Japan.

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Gov't panel formulates draft report on revitalizing education

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel Chemistry Prize laureate Ryoji Noyori (2nd L) addresses a governmental panel tasked with revitalizing education at a meeting at the Prime Minister's Official Residence on Jan. 19. The panel formulated its draft first report featuring four emergency measures and seven proposals, including a review of education with a so-called latitude policy, to boost the declining academic performance of Japanese students.

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Panel formulates draft 1st report on revitalizing education

TOKYO, Japan - The Education Rebuilding Council under Nobel Chemistry Prize laureate Ryoji Noyori meets at the Prime Minister's Official Residence on Jan. 19. The panel formulated its draft first report featuring four emergency measures and seven proposals, including a review of education with a so-called latitude policy, to boost the declining academic performance of Japanese students.

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Education panel mulls ways to rebuild Japan's education system

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (3rd from R) speaks during the first meeting of the Education Rebuilding Council, the newly created expert panel on education, at the prime minister's office on Oct. 18. The council aims to discuss specific ways to spur education reform, a key policy of Abe. Education minister Bummei Ibuki (R) and the panel head and Nobel Prize laureate Ryoji Noyori attended the meeting.

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(2)Emperor, empress listen to year's first lectures

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Noyori, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and president of RIKEN, gives a lecture Jan. 12 before Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko and other imperial family members for the year's first lecture meeting at the Imperial Palace. (Pool photo)

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Japanese scientists create heaviest ever element

TOKYO, Japan - Kosuke Morita, a researcher at Riken, an independent administrative corporation formerly known as the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, briefs reporters on the heaviest-ever new element, created by his team in Tokyo on Sept. 28. Riken President Ryoji Noyori, a 2001 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, sits at left.

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Nobel Prize laureate to lead top gov't laboratory

NAGOYA, Japan - Ryoji Noyori, co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, speaks at Nagoya University on July 22 about being appointed president of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Riken).

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Nobel laureate Noyori evaded taxes on 32 mil. yen

NAGOYA, Japan - Nobel chemistry laureate Ryoji Noyori speaks to reporters in front of his house in Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture, on April 23 about reports he evaded takes on 32 million yen in income in the seven years through 2000.

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Noyori returns home from Stockholm

NARITA, Japan - Japanese chemist Ryoji Noyori, co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, arrives at Narita airport, accompanied by his wife Hiroko (R), on Dec. 16 after attending an awards ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10.

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Japan's Noyori attends dinner party for Nobel prizewinners

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Ryoji Noyori (L), who won this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with two Americans, and his wife Hiroko are greeted by members of the Sweden's royal family as they arrive for a dinner party for Nobel laureates hosted by King Carl Gustav and Queen Silvia at the royal palace in Stockholm on Dec. 11.

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(3)Ryoji Noyori awarded Nobel chemistry prize

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Ryoji Noyori (L), a chemistry professor at Nagoya University who received this year's Nobel chemistry prize, shake hands with Leo Esaki, the 1973 Nobel physics prize winner, at a concert hall in Stockholm on Dec. 10 after the award ceremony there. Noyori's wife Hiroko stands between them.

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(2)Ryoji Noyori awarded Nobel chemistry prize

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 10 Kyodo - Ryoji Noyori, one of this year's winners of the Nobel chemistry prize, shows off his medal in Stockholm on Dec. 10 after the award ceremony. Noyori, a chemistry professor from Nagoya University, received the prize along with two U.S. chemists -- William Knowles and K. Barry Sharpless.

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(1)Ryoji Noyori awarded Nobel chemistry prize

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Ryoji Noyori (L), a chemistry professor from Nagoya University, receives the Nobel chemistry prize from Sweden's King Carl Gustav in Stockholm on Dec. 10, 2001. Noyori, 63, shared the accolade with two U.S. scientists -- William Knowles, 84, a former scientist at Monsanto Co., and K. Barry Sharpless, 60, a professor at the Scripps Research Institute in California.

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Noyori 'deeply moved' to be named Nobel prize laureate

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese chemist Ryoji Noyori makes a speech at Stockholm University Dec. 8, saying he is ''deeply moved'' to have been named a joint recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Noyori shared the Nobel chemistry prize with two American chemistry researchers -- K. Barry Sharpless and William Knowles. The Nobel prize awards ceremony is scheduled for Dec. 10.

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Noyori says chemistry is 'beautiful'

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese chemist Ryoji Noyori (R), who shared the Nobel chemistry prize with two American chemistry researchers -- K. Barry Sharpless (L, foreground) and William Knowles (R, background) -- poses for photographers after giving a news conference in Stockholm on Dec. 7. Noyori said, ''Chemistry is beautiful and exciting. Besides, it is beneficial to humankind.''

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Noyori heads to Stockholm for Nobel Prize ceremony

NARITA, Japan - Japanese chemist Ryoji Noyori, who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with two other scientists, prepares to leave Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 5 to attend an award ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10.

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Noyori with students for 1st time since winning Nobel prize

NAGOYA, Japan - Japanese chemist Ryoji Noyori, who along with two other scientists won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, makes his first public appearance before students Oct. 13 at a Nagoya University academic venue, since being proclaimed a winner of the coveted prize. During the session, Noyori, 63, listened to students read their research papers.

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Nobel winner Noyori says resolve key to research

NAGOYA, Japan - Ryoji Noyori, who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, speaks in an exclusive interview with Kyodo News at Nagoya University in Nagoya on Oct. 11. The interview took place a day after Noyori was named winner of the coveted prize along with two others.

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Japanese chemist Noyori awarded Nobel Prize

NAGOYA, Japan - Japanese chemist Ryoji Noyori, a Nagoya University professor, smiles at a news conference at the university Oct. 10 after being named the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Japan's Ryoji Noyori wins 2001 Nobel chemistry prize

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Ryoji Noyori (file photo), a professor at Nagoya University in Japan, was named a winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Oct 10. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Noyori shares the prize with William Knowles and Barry Sharpless of the United States.

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Shirakawa, 5 others awarded Order of Culture by emperor

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel laureate Hideki Shirakawa (Far L) and five others sit in a photo session Nov. 3 at the Imperial Palace after they were awarded this year's Order of Culture by Emperor Akihito. Next to Shirakawa is leather craftswoman Fukuko Okubo, 81, followed by calligrapher Kason Sugioka, 87, actress Isuzu Yamada, 83, sinologist Tadao Ishikawa, 78, and organic chemist Ryoji Noyori, 62. At the ceremony, which started at 10:30 a.m., the emperor decorated each of the recipients, who then received a certificate from Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori.

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Nobel laureate Shirakawa gets cultural order

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show the six winners of this year's Order of Culture named Oct. 24. (Upper, from L to R) sinologist Tadao Ishikawa, leather craftswoman Fukuko Okubo and Nobel laureate Hideki Shirakawa, (lower, from L to R) calligrapher Kason Sugioka, organic chemist Ryoji Noyori and actress Isuzu Yamada. They will receive their order from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace on Culture Day on Nov. 3.

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Japanese named recipient of U.S. chemistry award

NAGOYA, Japan - Ryoji Noyori, a professor at Nagoya University, is named Sept. 11 as the first Japanese recipient of the Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry, a prestigious U.S. award recognizing outstanding contributions to research in the field. The American Chemical Society will hold a presentation ceremony next June for the award, established in 1959.

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Noyori heads to Stockholm for Nobel Prize ceremony

NARITA, Japan - Japanese chemist Ryoji Noyori, who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with two other scientists, prepares to leave Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 5 to attend an award ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10.

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Noyori 'deeply moved' to be named Nobel prize laureate

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese chemist Ryoji Noyori makes a speech at Stockholm University Dec. 8, saying he is ''deeply moved'' to have been named a joint recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Noyori shared the Nobel chemistry prize with two American chemistry researchers -- K. Barry Sharpless and William Knowles. The Nobel prize awards ceremony is scheduled for Dec. 10.

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Noyori says chemistry is 'beautiful'

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese chemist Ryoji Noyori (R), who shared the Nobel chemistry prize with two American chemistry researchers -- K. Barry Sharpless (L, foreground) and William Knowles (R, background) -- poses for photographers after giving a news conference in Stockholm on Dec. 7. Noyori said, ''Chemistry is beautiful and exciting. Besides, it is beneficial to humankind.''

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Japan's Noyori attends dinner party for Nobel prizewinners

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Ryoji Noyori (L), who won this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with two Americans, and his wife Hiroko are greeted by members of the Sweden's royal family as they arrive for a dinner party for Nobel laureates hosted by King Carl Gustav and Queen Silvia at the royal palace in Stockholm on Dec. 11.