{"id":325868,"date":"2026-04-15T10:38:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=325868"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:38:47","slug":"the-2026-japan-prize-award-ceremony-is-held-with-their-majesties-the-emperor-and-empress-of-japan-in-attendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=325868","title":{"rendered":"The 2026 Japan Prize Award Ceremony Is Held With Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan in Attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>TOKYO, April 15 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) &#8212;&nbsp;<\/strong>The Japan Prize Foundation (President: Ryozo Nagai) held an award ceremony on Tuesday, April 14, at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in Tokyo&#8217;s Shibuya Ward to confer the Japan Prize on scientists who have made creative and dramatic achievements in the global scientific and technological fields and who have contributed significantly to realizing peace and prosperity for all humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cynthia Dwork, Ph.D. (USA), the winner in the field of Electronics, Information, and Communication, and Shizuo Akira, Ph.D. (Japan) and Zhijian \u201cJames\u201d Chen, Ph.D. (USA), the winners in the field of Life Science, were in attendance at the award ceremony, and each field was awarded 100 million Yen together with a certificate and a medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=54002\">https:\/\/mrem.bernama.com\/viewsm.php?idm=54002<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, April 15 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) &#8212;&nbsp;The Japan Prize Foundation (President: Ryozo Nagai) held an award ceremony on Tuesday, April 14, at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in Tokyo&#8217;s Shibuya Ward to confer the Japan Prize on scientists who have made creative and dramatic achievements in the global scientific and technological fields and who have contributed [&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\/325868"}],"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=325868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325869,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325868\/revisions\/325869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}