CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Kyodo) A Japanese researcher was among this year's winners of the Ig Nobel Prize on Thursday for developing a method to cut kitchen refuse by using bacteria derived from the feces of giant pandas.
Fumiaki Taguchi, professor emeritus at the graduate school of medical sciences in Kitasato University, shared the prize in the biology category with two Chinese researchers who were graduate students at the university.
Taguchi, Song Guofu and Zhang Guanglei were honored for their idea for reducing kitchen waste by more than 90 percent by using panda feces.