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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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'Wasabi fire alarm' wins Ig Nobel prize

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Yukinobu Tajima, head of the Fragrance Marketing Association, in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, in April 2009 holding a fire alarm device that informs people with hearing impediments of a fire by emitting a pungent ''wasabi'' horseradish smell. Tajima, together with six other Japanese researchers, were awarded the 2011 Ig Nobel prize in chemistry at the award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 29, 2011, for inventing the device.

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Koizumi samples durian

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, taking a break from a whirlwind tour of five ASEAN countries, samples durian, a pungent fruit native to Southeast Asia, during a visit to a press room at a hotel in Jakarta on Jan. 13. The fruit was presented to him from Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

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Firefighters investigate smoke from package

TOKYO, Japan - Firefighters on Sept. 11 investigate an area in the Nihombashi Post Office in central Tokyo where pungent-smelling smoke escaped from a package. The smoke, which came from a package mailed to a Tokyo medical company from China, irritated the eyes of 45 people who were later treated at a hospital.

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Koizumi samples durian

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, taking a break from a whirlwind tour of five ASEAN countries, samples durian, a pungent fruit native to Southeast Asia, during a visit to a press room at a hotel in Jakarta on Jan. 13. The fruit was presented to him from Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

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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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'Wasabi fire alarm' wins Ig Nobel prize

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Yukinobu Tajima, head of the Fragrance Marketing Association, in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, in April 2009 holding a fire alarm device that informs people with hearing impediments of a fire by emitting a pungent ''wasabi'' horseradish smell. Tajima, together with six other Japanese researchers, were awarded the 2011 Ig Nobel prize in chemistry at the award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 29, 2011, for inventing the device. (Kyodo)

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Firefighters investigate smoke from package

TOKYO, Japan - Firefighters on Sept. 11 investigate an area in the Nihombashi Post Office in central Tokyo where pungent-smelling smoke escaped from a package. The smoke, which came from a package mailed to a Tokyo medical company from China, irritated the eyes of 45 people who were later treated at a hospital.