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Marilyn Monroe's Golden Globe sells for record $250,000 at auction
Marilyn Monroe's Golden Globe Award sold for a record-breaking $250,000 at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, California, auction officials said late Saturday. The 1961 award statue for World Film Favorite Female from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made history as the highest selling Golden Globe ...
Ministry selects 150 leading master craftspeople for annual award
The labor ministry said Sunday it had picked out 150 contemporary master craftspeople, praising them as leaders in their respective professions with outstanding skills. The contemporary masters award ceremony was held in Tokyo on Monday. The list of masters included Masahiro Koizumi, 73, from Kyoto Prefecture, ...
The government said Saturday it will bestow honors at its annual fall event on 4,079 citizens and 135 foreign nationals for their achievements in various fields.
Japan selects five recipients for prestigious Order of Culture
The government said Friday it has selected five people to receive the country's top cultural award this year, including 84-year-old playwright and critic Masakazu Yamazaki. The other four who will receive the Order of Culture, which is also given to prominent researchers and scientists, are ...
Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo calls for a better environment in Japan for life science research
Nobel laureate and immunologist Tasuku Honjo on Tuesday called for a better environment in Japan for conducting research in the life sciences, saying more efforts are needed by both the private and public sectors in enabling researchers to come up with medical cures for ...
When Canadian scientist Donna Strickland got the early morning call informing her she just won the Nobel Prize in physics, she could barely hide her amazement. Not just that she had clinched one of science's most prestigious honors — her pioneering work on laser pulses ...
American, Canadian and French scientists win Nobel Prize for work in laser physics
Three scientists on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize, including the first woman in 55 years, for inventing optical lasers that have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in corrective eye surgery, the jury said. Arthur Ashkin of the United States won one ...
Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo hopes Japan invests more in science
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Tasuku Honjo voiced hope on Tuesday that Japan would invest more in science, a day after he was chosen for this year's award in physiology or medicine along with American James Allison for their studies on cancer therapy. "I was able to ...
Japanese scientist Tasuku Honjo was awarded on Monday this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, for his discovery of a protein that contributed to the development of an immunotherapeutic drug against cancer. Honjo, a 76-year-old professor at Kyoto University, won the prize with U.S. ...
Japan's Hirokazu Kore-eda wins lifetime achievement award at prestigious San Sebastian film festival
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda added to his growing list of accomplishments Sunday, becoming the first Asian to win the lifetime achievement award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain. Kore-eda won the Donostia Award at the prestigious film festival in recognition of his works ...
Japan's Haruki Murakami withdraws from consideration for alternative Nobel award
Japanese author Haruki Murakami asks that his nomination for an alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature be withdrawn as he wants to concentrate on writing.
Do-it-yourself colonoscopy wins Japanese doctor one of 10 2018 Ig Nobels
A Japanese doctor was recognized Thursday with an Ig Nobel prize, which honor comical but practical scientific studies, for devising the most comfortable colonoscopy technique by using himself as a test subject. Akira Horiuchi, a 57-year-old head of the digestive disease center at Showa Inan ...
