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JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 1, 2015
Nobel physicists inspire Thai students with Bangkok lectures
Hiroshi Amano, the 2014 Nobel laureate in physics, and Toshihide Masukawa, who won the same award in 2008, gave Thai high school and university students some advice at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University on Saturday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 30, 2015
Laser's co-inventor, Nobel laureate Charles Townes, dead at 99
Charles Townes, who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in physics for invention of the laser, a feat that revolutionized science, medicine, telecommunications and entertainment, has died at age 99, the University of California at Berkeley reported.
JAPAN
Jan 3, 2015
Four Japanese were nominees for '64 Nobel literature prize: documents
Novelists Junichiro Tanizaki and Yukio Mishima were among those nominated for the 1964 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy reveals after 50 years of secrecy.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 11, 2014
Physics trio collect Nobel prize at gala
The three Japan-born physicists who won this year's Nobel Prize in physics for inventing energy-efficient blue light-emitting diodes received their prize at a ceremony in Stockholm on Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 9, 2014
Blue LED inventors speak about their work ahead of Nobel awards ceremony
The three Japan-born physicists awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics have been speaking in Stockholm about their work and how they succeeded in developing the blue light-emitting diode, the breakthrough that led to the white LEDs now commonly used worldwide.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Nov 21, 2014
Translator moved to action by Malala
Malala Yousafzai, who at 17 became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, has influenced countless people all over the world as an activist for female education. One of those is Yoshiko Nishida.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Nov 8, 2014
Finding Murakami in his own weird worlds
Consider this hypothetical conundrum: Haruki Murakami is (finally) awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, but what does the author have to say for himself on Japanese television?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2014
Nobel winner Nakamura extends olive branch to former employer Nichia
Shuji Nakamura, one of the three Japan-born scientists awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics, said Monday he wants to rebuild ties with his former employer, Nichia Corp., despite suing the chemical maker over patent rights to his groundbreaking blue LED technology.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 23, 2014
Nobel laureate Amano asks Abe to boost support for young researchers
Hiroshi Amano, one of the three Japan-born scientists to win this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, has asked Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to boost support for fledgling researchers in the country.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 14, 2014
Japan's Nobel win should spur Abe to action
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been quiet on one reform that truly would encourage the risk-taking culture Japan needs so badly: making sure employees get paid for their inventions.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2014
Article 9 campaigners disappointed by Nobel decision
The Nobel Committee disappoints those who backed war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution for the 2014 peace prize, but the campaigners promise to return stronger next year.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2014
Nobel laureate says Japan's business culture stifles innovation
One of the three co-laureates of this year's Nobel Prize in physics said he fled Japan for the United States because of the stifling environment for entrepreneurs in his native country.
EDITORIALS
Oct 8, 2014
Ingenuity key to Nobel success
The achievements of Nobel winners Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura highlight why scientific freedom and daring research should be encouraged in Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 4, 2014
Peace prize pundit bets on Article 9 guardians to win Nobel
A Nobel Peace Prize observer speculates that the Japanese people who uphold the war-renouncing Constitution are the most likely candidate to win this year's award.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Sep 20, 2014
Nip the Bud, Shoot the Kids
Fiercely lyrical and tenderly dark, Kenzaburo Oe's "Nip the Bud, Shoot the Kids" marked the literary ascent of a Japanese writer whose star continues to shine internationally and at home. Written when he was just 23 years old, the 1958 novel can be read as existential coming-of-age, an indictment of war-time cruelty and a consideration of society and the outsider, uniting Oe's roots as a boy raised under World War II militarism and as a student of French literature at Tokyo University.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 16, 2014
Yemeni journalist devoted to bringing democracy, women's rights to her country
Japan is an ideal model for countries racked by conflict and poverty because of how it resurrected itself from the devastation of war and achieved peace, the first Arab woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize says.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2014
Japanese lawmakers say war-renouncing Constitution deserves Nobel Peace Prize
A group of lawmakers callfor the Nobel Committee to award Article 9 of the Constitution this year's Nobel Peace Prize, saying it would greatly encourage Japanese people as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pushes to expand the nation's military capacity.
JAPAN
May 22, 2014
Japanese politicians recommend Article 9 for Nobel Peace Prize
A group of 60 Japanese lawmakers submitted a petition at the Norwegian Embassy in Tokyo on Thursday requesting that the Nobel Committee award war-renouncing Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution with the Nobel Peace Prize.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 12, 2014
China's elite 'princelings' quietly push for Nobel laureate's freedom
A group of "princelings," children of China's political elite, has quietly urged the Communist Party leadership to release jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo on parole to improve the country's international image, two sources said.
JAPAN
Apr 11, 2014
Article 9 nominated as candidate for Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Prize Committee officially nominates war-renouncing Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
As visitors surge, Japan seeks ways to make tourism eco-friendly
Much like other hot spots across Okinawa, Onna has diligently strived to captivate both domestic and international tourists, while at the same time grappling with the environmental strain induced by the influx of visitors.
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Kishida talks up bolstered Latin American ties as China cements position
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida holds a news conference in Sao Paulo on Saturday.
As visitors surge, Japan seeks ways to make tourism eco-friendly
Much like other hot spots across Okinawa, Onna has diligently strived to captivate both domestic and international tourists, while at the same time grappling with the environmental strain induced by the influx of visitors.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.

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