The government on Friday said Nobel laureates Satoshi Omura and Takaaki Kajita are among the seven individuals this year who will receive the Order of Culture, Japan’s top award for contributions to culture.
Omura, 80, was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and Kajita, 56, was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physics earlier this month.
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