{"id":323201,"date":"2026-01-27T10:08:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323201"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:08:04","slug":"2026-japan-prize-two-u-s-scientists-and-one-japanese-scientist-awarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323201","title":{"rendered":"2026 Japan Prize: Two U.S. Scientists And One Japanese Scientist Awarded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>TOKYO, Jan 27 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) &#8212;&nbsp;<\/strong>The Japan Prize Foundation announced the winners of the 2026 Japan Prize at 1:00 p.m. on 21 January 2026. Prof. Cynthia Dwork (USA) has been awarded the Japan Prize in the field of&nbsp;<em>Electronics, Information, and Communication<\/em>. Prof. Shizuo Akira (Japan) and Prof. Zhijian &#8220;James&#8221; Chen (USA) have been awarded the Japan Prize in the field of&nbsp;<em>Life Sciences.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this year\u2019s Japan Prize, Prof. Dwork is being recognized for her\u00a0<em>Contribution to leading research for building an ethical digital society, including differential privacy and fairness<\/em>. Prof. Akira and Prof. Chen are being recognized for their\u00a0<em>Discovery of the nucleic acid sensing mechanism by the innate immune system.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=53347\">https:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=53347<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, Jan 27 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) &#8212;&nbsp;The Japan Prize Foundation announced the winners of the 2026 Japan Prize at 1:00 p.m. on 21 January 2026. Prof. Cynthia Dwork (USA) has been awarded the Japan Prize in the field of&nbsp;Electronics, Information, and Communication. Prof. Shizuo Akira (Japan) and Prof. Zhijian &#8220;James&#8221; Chen (USA) have been awarded the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[315],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323202,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323201\/revisions\/323202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}