Japan's Yoshiaki Ishizawa on Thursday received the Ramon Magsaysay Award, one of Asia's highest honors, with a vow to carry on his advocacy for cultural heritage preservation and promotion.
Ishizawa, 79, a former president of Sophia University who spent decades helping to restore Cambodia's Angkor Wat, is one of this year's six recipients of the prestigious honor regarded as Asia's Nobel Prize.
The others are Abdon Nababan of Indonesia, Gethsie Shanmugam of Sri Lanka, Tony Tay of Singapore, and Lilia de Lima and the Philippine Educational Theater Association of the Philippines.