Novelists Makoto Furukawa and Soichi Kawagoe to receive Japan's Akutagawa and Naoki literary prizes
The winners of the prestigious Akutagawa and Naoki literary awards were selected Wednesday, with two novelists earning acclaim for their respective works about the past and present lives of a family in Kyushu and the history of the indigenous Ainu ethnic group in the ...
Japan to recognize doctor killed in Afghanistan with Order of the Rising Sun
The government said Monday it will award a decoration to Tetsu Nakamura, a Japanese aid worker who was killed in a shooting earlier this month in Afghanistan. The 73-year-old physician will be awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, Chief Cabinet ...
Taiwanese family drama 'A Sun' wins Golden Horse for best Chinese-language film
Taiwanese family drama "A Sun" won top prizes at the Golden Horse film awards Saturday in a year marked by the conspicuous absence of talent from China amid plummeting ties between Taipei and Beijing. Dubbed the Chinese-language "Oscars," Golden Horse got into trouble with Beijing ...
Sweden honors detained political writer Gui Minhai despite Chinese threats
Sweden's culture minister on Friday defied a Chinese threat by awarding a Swedish rights prize to detained Chinese-Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai. Known for publishing gossipy titles about Chinese political leaders out of a Hong Kong book shop, Gui disappeared while on vacation in Thailand ...
Nobel laureate Akira Yoshino among six selected for Japan's top cultural award
Akira Yoshino, one of three winners of this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, and five other people were selected as this year's recipients of the Order of Culture, the government said Tuesday. Others receiving Japan's top cultural award are kyogen actor Nomura Man, 89, political ...
Greta Thunberg tipped for Nobel Peace Prize, but media freedom or migration may throw up a surprise
Bookmakers seem confident that Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is a shoo-in for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, but some experts are more cautious. The 16-year-old has already received Amnesty International's top honor and the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes dubbed the "alternative Nobel." Online ...
Scandal-hit Swedish Academy to award two Nobel literature prizes
The Swedish Academy will crown two Nobel literature laureates this year, making up for lost time after it skipped last year's prize over a sexual harassment scandal. Experts say the academy will seek to avoid ruffling any feathers with this year's choice of laureates as ...
Two scientists from U.S. and one from Britain share Nobel medicine prize
Two scientists from the United States and one from the U.K. won the 2019 Nobel medicine prize on Monday for discovering how cells adapt to fluctuating oxygen levels, paving the way for new strategies to fight diseases such as anaemia and cancer. The Nobel award-giving ...
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg wins Amnesty's top human rights award
Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future youth movement received Amnesty International's "Ambassadors of Conscience" award on Monday for their work highlighting the need for urgent action to avert climate disaster. The 16-year-old, who is taking a year out of high school, ...
For any parents wondering how much saliva their 5-year-old produces, a Japanese team has the answer: about 500 ml per day. The discovery landed the team of five a "prestigious" Ig Nobel chemistry award, a spoof prize that aims to "celebrate the unusual, honor the ...
Team behind world's first black hole image wins 'Oscar of science'
The 347 scientists who collaborated to produce the world's first image of a black hole were honored Thursday with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, winning $3 million for what is known as the "Oscars of science." The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration grabbed global headlines ...
Filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda was recognized as Asian filmmaker of the year at a major festival in South Korea on Wednesday, where his latest work will be screened, according to a Japanese movie distributor. The director received the award, which is given to individuals and groups ...
