Address by His Majesty the Emperor
Commemorative Lectures
"Invention of semiconductor-laser pumped EDFA and future of ICT made of optical fibers" Prof. Masataka Nakazawa
"半導体レーザ励起光増幅器の開発を中心とする光ファイバ網の長距離大容量化" Mr. Kazuo Hagimoto
"Optogenetics: Causes, Connections, Mechanisms" Prof. Gero Miesenböck
"The inner workings of channelrhodopsins and nervous systems" Prof. Karl Deisseroth
2023 Japan Prize Laureates Announced
Distinguished Professor/Specially Appointed Professor, Tohoku University
Principal Researcher, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Waynflete Professor of Physiology, Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford
Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Psychiatry,
and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Stanford University
Commemorative Lectures
"From Information Theory to the Information Age" Prof. Robert G. Gallager
"An Ancient DNA View of Human Origins" Dr. Svante Pääbo
"High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells: Invention, Development & Commercialisation" Prof. Martin A. Green
"Developing mRNA for therapy" Prof. Katalin Karikó
"Nucleoside Modified mRNA-LNP Therapeutics" Prof. Drew Weissman
"Nature's Role in Climate Change Solutions" Prof. Christopher Field
2022 Japan Prize Laureates Announced
Senior Vice President, BioNTech SE
Adjunct Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Professor, University of Szeged
Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Director Penn Institute for RNA Innovation
Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University
I regret to inform you that the board of directors of Japan Prize Foundation has decided to postpone the 36th Japan Prize Award Ceremony and all of the associated events that were scheduled for April 2020. We will hold the 36th Award Ceremony together with the 37th one year later in April 2021. The associated events of the 36th will be held together with those of the 37th.
Because of the COVID-19 virus outbreak, it is extremely difficult for the Laureates to come in and go out of Japan. As you have already known, the Japanese government requests cancellation or postponement of large scale events to avoid risks of infection. Considering those situations, we had to postpone all the events of the 36th Award.
2020 Japan Prize Laureates Announced
February 4, 2020, Press Conference, announcing the 2020 (36th) Japan Prize
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2019 Japan Prize Presentation Ceremony Photos
2019 Japan Prize Honors Japanese and American Scientists in Fields of Chemistry and Agriculture
January 16, 2019, Press Conference, announcing the 2019 (35th) Japan Prize
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Yoshio Yazaki
Hiroshi Komiyama
For the past nine years, I have had the honor of serving as the Chairman of the Japan Prize Selection Committee. While selecting just one achievement for the prize from among many excellent researches was quite a challenging task, I thoroughly enjoyed the tense but pleasurable exchange of honest opinions with the expert members of the Selection Subcommittee and Selection Committee.
As the next president of the foundation, I feel very privileged to have served the cause of honoring not only advancements in science and research but also its social contribution, the direction that many science awards are currently heading towards, and would like to further dedicate myself to the mission of Japan Prize.
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2018 (34th) Japan Prize Commemorative Lectures "Resources, Energy, Environment and Social Infrastructure" field
