and Gordon Hisashi Sato, winners of the 2005 Blue Planet Prize, congratulate each other Wednesday at a news conference in Tokyo.

The Asahi Glass Foundation gave Briton Nicholas Shackleton, professor emeritus of the department of earth sciences at the University of Cambridge, and American Gordon Hisashi Sato, director emeritus of the W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center in the United States, 50 million yen prizes for their work on the environment.

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The Gas Pavilion had welcomed around 500,000 visitors by the end of August, making it one of the most popular exhibits at the Osaka Expo.
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The byzantine process for converting a foreign driver’s license into a Japanese one entails mountains of paperwork and significant stamina — unless you're a lucky license holder from a country or region where these requirements are waived.
Driving in Japan isn’t hard. Getting the license is.