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NOBEL PRIZE

Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 7, 2017
World's first method for mass-producing platelets from iPS cells unveiled by Kyoto startup
A Kyoto startup unveils a way to mass-produce platelets, a key component in clotting, that could reduce doctors' dependency on donated blood to minimize bleeding.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 19, 2017
China 'murdered' Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo: Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres), which advocates freedom of information around the world, on Tuesday accused Chinese authorities of having "murdered" Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo by denying him proper medical care during his incarceration.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 16, 2017
Australia urges China to release dissident Liu Xiaobo's widow
Australia on Sunday called for China to lift curbs on the widow of Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo, who died of liver cancer in custody last week.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 9, 2017
Chinese Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo in final stages of cancer, hospital says
Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo's has final stage terminal liver cancer, the hospital treating the 61-year-old said Saturday, after doctors from Germany and the United States visited him.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Apr 3, 2017
Bob Dylan finally takes receipt of Nobel in literature
American musician Bob Dylan has finally received his Nobel Prize in literature, nearly four months after the award presentation ceremony.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 14, 2017
Nobel economist's ideas seen giving justification to delay Japan's consumption tax hike
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration has a habit of co-opting Nobel Prize-winning economists when it lays the groundwork for contentious policy decisions.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 6, 2017
Researcher soars to second most popular job for Japanese boys
Researcher is now the second most popular job among Japanese boys, a nationwide survey of 1,100 elementary school and preschool children said Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 19, 2016
Norway and China normalize ties after Nobel Peace Prize flap
Norway and China on Monday normalized diplomatic and political ties that were frozen since 2010 when Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 8, 2016
Nobel laureate Ohsumi urges youth to ask fundamental questions
Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi, who won this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his study on cell recycling, encouraged young people Wednesday to pursue fundamental questions, however "naive" they may appear.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2016
Nobel laureate Ohsumi wins Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi, winner of this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the prize foundation said Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 27, 2016
Nobel-winning Belarusian writer Alexievich speaks on nuclear disasters and the future of human hubris
Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in literature, called the nuclear catastrophes at Chernobyl and Fukushima events that people cannot yet fully fathom and warned against the hubris that humans have the power to conquer nature.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Nov 14, 2016
Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in literature
U.S. music legend Bob Dylan is the first songwriter to win the Nobel Prize in literature in the award's 115-year history.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Oct 24, 2016
Tokyo cell scientist gets Nobel prize
Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for explaining the processes whereby proteins are degraded and recycled.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Oct 24, 2016
Let's discuss Ohsumi's medicine Nobel prize
Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the Nobel for unlocking key mysteries of autophagy, the process by which cells in animals and plants get rid of damaged proteins.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Oct 24, 2016
Nobel laureates raise prestige of Nagoya chemistry medals
The annual Nagoya Medal of Organic Chemistry is gaining wider prominence now that it has been recognized that two of the three recipients of this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry were previous winners of the award.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2016
Bob Dylan and the wind of literary idiocy
The 'Bard of Hibbing' is a poetico-musical revolution in one man and one body of work. It is this tour de force that the Nobel committee has recognized in its selection.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Oct 23, 2016
Swedish Academy says it's up to Dylan if he wants to come to receive Nobel Prize
The committee that awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Bob Dylan said on Saturday it was up to the American singer-songwriter whether to attend the prize-giving ceremony later this year or not.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Oct 22, 2016
Ig Nobel perception prize winner Atsuki Higashiyama: 'Psychology teaches us to be scientific and skeptical'
Psychology professor on perserverance, doubt and the influence of his teachers
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 18, 2016
A Nobel that helps explain the hole in a bagel
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics rewarded work that is merely one more step in the study of ordinary matter that has been going on for centuries.
EDITORIALS
Oct 17, 2016
The times they are a-changin'
Throughout his career, Bob Dylan's songs have struck a chord with the young and young at heart around the world. It is hard to imagine a 'purer' or more deserving form of literature.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Yen swings stir talk that Japan is in the FX market once again
An electronic screen in Tokyo displays the yen exchange rate against the U.S. dollar and the graph showing its recent swings, on Thursday.
Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it
Laforet Harajuku, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last year, has been a witness to the district's evolution over the years.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Japan's May 1 intervention may have cost ¥3.66 trillion, BOJ data suggests
An electronic screen displays a graph showing Japanese yen exchange rates surging against the dollar amid signs of intervention by authorities, in Tokyo on Thursday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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