List of Japanese Nobel laureates

The Japanese Nobel Prize Laureate (2010) Akira Suzuki and Ei-ichi Negishi

Since 1949, there have been 29 Japanese laureates of the Nobel Prize . The Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. It was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. An associated prize, thus far, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, also sometimes known as the Nobel Prize in Economics, has yet to be awarded to a Japanese national.

The Nobel Prizes in the above specific sciences disciplines and the Prize in Economics, which is commonly identified with them, are widely regarded as the most prestigious award one can receive in those fields. ^{[1] [2]} Of Japanese winners, twelve have been physicists, eight chemists, three for literature, five for physiology or medicine, and one for efforts towards peace. ^[2]

In the 21st century, in the field of natural science, the number of Japanese winners of the Nobel Prize has been second behind the U.S.

Summary

Number of Nobel laureates by category

Category	Japanese citizens	Others born as Japanese citizens	Total	Remarks
Physics	9	3	12	Yoichiro Nambu, Shuji Nakamura, and Syukuro Manabe became an American citizen.
Chemistry	8	-	8	Ei-ichi Negishi was born in Manchuria
Physiology or Medicine	5	-	5
Literature	2	1	3	Kazuo Ishiguro became a British citizen in 1983. [3] [4]
Peace	1	-	1
Total	25	4	29

Laureates

Year	Image	Laureate	Born	Died	Field	Citation
Citizens
1949		Hideki Yukawa	23 January 1907 Tokyo, Japan	8 September 1981 Kyoto, Japan	Physics	"for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces." [5]
1965		Sin-Itiro Tomonaga	31 March 1906 Tokyo, Japan	8 July 1979 Tokyo, Japan	Physics	"for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles." [6] (jointly with American theoretical physicists Julian Schwinger and Richard Feynman)
1968		Yasunari Kawabata	11 June 1899 Osaka, Japan	16 April 1972 Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan	Literature	"for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind." [7]
1973		Leo Esaki	12 March 1925 Takaida, Higashiōsaka, Osaka, Japan	—	Physics	"for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively." [8] (jointly with Norwegian-American physicist Ivar Giaever and shared with Welsh theoretical physicist Brian David Josephson)
1974		Eisaku Satō	27 March 1901 Tabuse, Yamaguchi, Japan	3 June 1975 Tokyo, Japan	Peace	"for his contribution to stabilize conditions in the Pacific rim area and for signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty." [9] (shared with Irish politician Seán MacBride)
1981		Kenichi Fukui	4 October 1918 Ikoma, Nara, Japan	9 January 1998 Kyoto, Japan	Chemistry	"for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions." [10] (jointly with Polish-American theoretical chemist Roald Hoffmann)
1987		Susumu Tonegawa	5 September 1939 Nagoya, Aichi, Japan	—	Physiology or Medicine	"for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity." [11]
1994		Kenzaburō Ōe	31 January 1935 Ōse, Ehime, Japan	—	Literature	"who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." [12]
2000		Hideki Shirakawa	20 August 1936 Tokyo, Japan	—	Chemistry	"for their discovery and development of conductive polymers." [13] (jointly with American chemist Alan MacDiarmid and physicist Alan J. Heeger)
2001		Ryōji Noyori	3 September 1938 Ashiya, Hyōgo, Japan	—	Chemistry	"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions." [14] (jointly with American chemist William S. Knowles and shared with American chemist K. Barry Sharpless)
2002		Masatoshi Koshiba	19 September 1926 Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan	12 November 2020 Tokyo, Japan	Physics	"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos." [15] (jointly with American chemist Raymond Davis Jr. and shared with Italian-American Riccardo Giacconi)
		Koichi Tanaka	3 August 1959 Toyama, Japan	—	Chemistry	"for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules... [and] for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules." [16] (jointly with American analytical chemist John B. Fenn and Swiss chemist Kurt Wüthrich)
2008		Makoto Kobayashi	7 April 1944 Nagoya, Aichi, Japan	—	Physics	"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature." [17] (shared with Japanese-American physicist Yoichiro Nambu)
		Toshihide Maskawa	7 February 1940 Nagoya, Aichi, Japan	23 July 2021 Kyoto, Japan
		Osamu Shimomura	27 August 1928 Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, Japan	19 October 2018 Nagasaki, Japan	Chemistry	"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP." [18] (jointly with American neurobiologist Martin Chalfie and biochemist Roger Y. Tsien)
2010		Ei-ichi Negishi	14 July 1935 Changchun, Jilin, China	6 June 2021 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States	Chemistry	"for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis." [19] (jointly with American chemist Richard F. Heck)
		Akira Suzuki	12 September 1930 Mukawa, Hokkaido, Japan	—
2012		Shinya Yamanaka	4 September 1962 Higashiōsaka, Osaka, Japan	—	Physiology or Medicine	"for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent." [20] (jointly with British developmental biologist John B. Gurdon)
2014		Isamu Akasaki	30 January 1929 Chiran, Kagoshima, Japan	1 April 2021 Nagoya, Aichi, Japan	Physics	"for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources." [21] (jointly with Japanese-born American Shuji Nakamura)
		Hiroshi Amano	11 September 1960 Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan	—
2015		Satoshi Ōmura	12 July 1935 Nirasaki, Yamanashi, Japan	—	Physiology or Medicine	"for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites." [22] (jointly with Irish-American parasitologist William C. Campbell and shared with Chinese pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou)
		Takaaki Kajita	9 March 1959 Higashimatsuyama, Saitama, Japan	—	Physics	"for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass." [23] (jointly with Canadian astrophysicist Arthur B. McDonald)
2016		Yoshinori Ohsumi	9 February 1945 Fukuoka, Japan	—	Physiology or Medicine	"for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy." [24]
2018		Tasuku Honjo	27 January 1942 Kyoto, Japan	—	Physiology or Medicine	"for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation." [25] (jointly with American immunologist James P. Allison)
2019		Akira Yoshino	30 January 1948 Osaka, Japan	—	Chemistry	"for the development of lithium ion batteries." [26] (jointly with American materials scientist John B. Goodenough and British-American chemist M. Stanley Whittingham)
Diaspora [lower-alpha 1]
1987		Charles J. Pedersen [lower-alpha 2]	3 October 1904 Busan, South Korea	26 October 1989 Salem, New Jersey, United States	Chemistry	"for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity." [27] (jointly with American chemist Donald J. Cram and French chemist Jean-Marie Lehn)
2008		Yoichiro Nambu	18 January 1921 Tokyo, Japan	5 July 2015 Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan	Physics	"for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics." [17] (jointly with Japanese physicists Toshihide Maskawa and Makoto Kobayashi)
2014		Shuji Nakamura	22 May 1954 Ikata, Ehime, Japan	—	Physics	"for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources." [21] (jointly with Japanese physicists Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano)
2017		Kazuo Ishiguro	8 November 1954 Nagasaki, Japan	—	Literature	"who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world." [28]
2021		Syukuro Manabe	21 September 1931 Uma, Ehime, Japan	—	Physics	"for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming." [29] (jointly with German climate modeller Klaus Hasselmann and shared with Italian theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi)

Nominees

Image	Nominee [30]	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Citation	Nominator(s)
Physics
	Kotaro Honda	24 March 1870 Okazaki, Aichi, Japan	12 February 1954 Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan	1932	"for his invention of KS steel which had 250 oersteds magnetic resistance and developed through rigorous basic research on steel and alloys." [31]	Seiji Nakamura (1869–1960)   Japan
						Junzo Okubo (?)   Japan
						Hikoo Saegusa (1890–1948)   Japan
	Hideki Yukawa	23 January 1907 Tokyo, Japan	8 September 1981 Kyoto, Japan	1940	"for his research on elementary particles, particularly for the prediction of a new particle called mesons based on a proposed theory on strong and weak nuclear forces." [32]	Hantaro Nagaoka (1865–1950)   Japan
						Dirk Coster (1889–1950)   Netherlands
				1941		Toshizo Matsumoto (?)   Japan
				1943, 1944		Louis de Broglie (1892–1987)   France
				1945		Maurice de Broglie (1875–1960)   France
				1946		Jean Thibaud (1901–1960)   France
				1946, 1948		Gregor Wentzel (1898–1978)   Germany
				1948		Marcel Schein (1902–1960)   United States
				1949		Theodor Svedberg et al. [lower-alpha 3] (1884–1971)   Sweden
						Otto Stern (1888–1969) et al.   Germany
				1950		Harold Urey (1893–1981)   United States
						Harald Wergeland (1912–1987)   Norway
	Shin'ichirō Tomonaga	31 March 1906 Tokyo, Japan	8 July 1979 Tokyo, Japan	1951	"for his fundamental contributions in the development of quantum electrodynamics and for discovering the renormalization method." [33]	Takahiko Yamanouchi (1902–1986)   Japan
						Samuel Devons (1914–2006)   United Kingdom
				1952		Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981)   Japan
				1955		Isao Imai (1914–2004)
				1956		Carl D. Anderson (1905–1991)   United States
						Robert Bacher (1905–2004)   United States
						Robert F. Christy (1916–2012)   United States
				1957		Helmut Hönl (1903–1981)   Germany
						Leonard I. Schiff (1915–1971)   United States
				1960		Norman F. Ramsey Jr. (1915–2011)   United States
				1962		A. K. Dutta (?)   India
				1963		Sidney Drell (1926–016)   United States
				1964		Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller (born 1933)   Germany
						W. Wessel (?)   Germany
				1965		Alfred K. Mann (1920–2013)   United States
	Kazuhiko Nishijima	4 October 1926 Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan	15 February 2009 Tokyo, Japan	1960	"for his contributions to particle physics, particularly on his work on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, and the concept of strangeness, which he called the "eta-charge" or "η-charge", after the eta meson." [34]	Marian Günther (1928–?)   Poland
				1961		Frederick Seitz (1911–2008)   United States
				1964		G. Höhler (?)   Germany
				1966		W. Theis (?)   Germany
				1967		Sergio DeBenedetti (?)   United States
						F. Cap (?)   Austria
				1968		Yoichiro Nambu (1921–2015)   Japan
						Jun John Sakurai (1933–1982)   United States
				1969		H. Pierre Noyes (born 1923)   France
						Bunji Sakita (1930–2002)   Japan
						Haakon A. Olsen (1923–2010)   Norway
				1970		Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981)   Japan
	Tadao Nakano	1926 Tokyo, Japan	15 August 2004	1961	"his collaborative work with Nishijima on the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula and quark model." [35]	Frederick Seitz (1911–2008)   United States
				1970		Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981)   Japan
	Susumu Okubo	20 February 1930 Tokyo, Japan	17 July 2015 Rochester, New York, United States	1965	"for the Gell-Mann–Okubo mass formula for mesons and baryons in the quark model whichpredicts the relations of masses of the members of SU(3) multiplets in terms of hypercharge and isotopic spin." [36]	Robert Marshak (1916–1992)   United States
	Yoshio Ōnuki	7 November 1928 Tochigi, Japan	—	1965, 1966	"for his research on the Sakata model based on the Yamaguchi-Ogawa-Ohnuki symmetry determining that hidden particles are equivalent to each other." [37]	Gordon Sutherland (1907–1980)   United Kingdom
	Sigenori Miyamoto	20 October 1931 Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan	31 December 2017 Japan	1966	[38]	Y. Nogami (?)   Japan
	Shuji Fukui	19 August 1923 Osaka, Japan	4 May 2018 Japan	1966	"for developing a "discharge chamber" (later called "spark chamber") that observes the tracks of high-energy charged particles." [39]
	Leo Esaki	12 March 1925 Takaida, Higashiōsaka, Osaka, Japan	—	1968	"for his work in electron tunneling in semiconductor materials which finally led to his invention of the Esaki diode, which exploited that phenomenon." [40]	John Bardeen (1908–1991)   United States
	Hiroomi Umezawa	20 September 1924 Kuki, Saitama, Japan	24 March 1995 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada	1968	"for his fundamental contributions to quantum field theory and for his work on quantum phenomena in relation to the mind." [41]	Eduardo R. Caianiello (1921–1993)   Italy
	Jun Kondō	6 February 1930 Tokyo, Japan	11 March 2022 Suginami, Tokyo, Japan	1969	"for his research on the Kondo effect, a scattering of conduction electrons in a metal due to magnetic impurities, resulting in a characteristic change." [42]	Osmund Dorenfeldt Jenssen (1923–2009)   Norway
	Ryogo Kubo	15 February 1920 Tokyo, Japan	31 March 1995 Tokyo, Japan	1970	"for his works in statistical physics, particularly on non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and the theory of fluctuation phenomena." [43]	Yoshio Yamaguchi (1926–2016)   Japan
	Shoichi Sakata	18 January 1911 Tokyo, Japan	16 December 1970 Nagoya, Aichi, Japan	1970	"for his research on subatomic particles and the two meson theory: the Sakata model and the Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata neutrino mixing matrix." [44]	Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981)   Japan
Literature
	Toyohiko Kagawa	10 July 1888 Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan	23 April 1960 Tokyo, Japan	1947	A Shooter at the Sun (1925) Love - The Law of Life (1930) Meditations on the Cross (1935) Songs from the Slums (1935) Brotherhood Economics (1936) [45]	Knut B. Westman (1881–1967)   Sweden
				1948		Sven Hedin (1865–1952)   Sweden
	Jun'ichirō Tanizaki	24 July 1886 Tokyo, Japan	30 July 1965 Yugawara, Kanagawa, Japan	1958	Naomi (1925) Some Prefer Nettles (1929) Quicksand (1928–1930) Arrowroot (1931) In Praise of Shadows (1933) The Makioka Sisters (1943–48) The Key (1956) Childhood Years: A Memoir (1957) Diary of a Mad Old Man (1961) [46]	Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973)   United States
				1960		Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970)   Sweden
				1961		The Japanese Authors' Union
				1962		Howard Hibbett (1920–2019)   United States
				1963		Donald Keene (1922–2019)   United States
				1964, 1965		Harry Martinson (1904–1978)   Sweden
	Junzaburō Nishiwaki	20 January 1894 Ojiya, Niigata, Japan	5 June 1982 Ojiya, Niigata, Japan	1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967	Spectrum (1925) Ambarvalia (1933) No Traveler Returns (1947) Modern Fables (1953) [47] [48]	Naoshirō Tsuji (1899–1979)   Japan
				1961		The Japanese Authors' Union
				1963		Japan Academy
				1968
	Yasunari Kawabata	11 June 1899 Osaka, Japan	16 April 1972 Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan	1961, 1963	Snow Country (1948) Thousand Cranes (1952) The Master of Go (1954) The Sound of the Mountain (1954) The House of the Sleeping Beauties (1961) The Old Capital (1962) Dandelions (1972) [49]	Henry Olsson (1896–1985)   Sweden
				1962		The Japanese P.E.N. Club
				1964, 1965		Harry Martinson (1904–1978)   Sweden
				1966		Karl Ragnar Gierow (1904–1982)   Sweden
				1967		Howard Hibbett (1920–2019)   United States
				1968		Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976)   Sweden
	Yukio Mishima	14 January 1925 Tokyo, Japan	25 November 1970 Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan	1963	Confessions of a Mask (1949) The Sound of Waves (1954) The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956) The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963) Sun and Steel (1968) The Sea of Fertility (1969–1971) [50]	Johannes Rahder (1898–1988)   Netherlands
				1964, 1965, 1967		Harry Martinson (1904–1978)   Sweden
				1968		Henry Olsson (1896–1985)   Sweden
	Yasushi Inoue	6 May 1907 Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan	29 January 1991 Tokyo, Japan	1969	The Bullfight (1949) Hyōheki (1956) The Roof Tile of Tempyō (1957) Tun-huang (1959) [51]	Erich Ruprecht (1906–1997)   Germany
	Sei Itō (posthumously nominated)	16 January 1905 Matsumae, Hokkaido, Japan	15 November 1969 Tokyo, Japan	1970	Snow-lit Road (1926) Streets of Fiendish Ghosts (1937) Senkichi Narumi (1948) History of Japanese Literary Circles (1955–1969) [52]	Kōjirō Serizawa (1897–1993)   Japan
	Tatsuzō Ishikawa	2 July 1905 Yokote, Akita, Japan	31 January 1985 Tokyo, Japan	1970	Sōbō (1935) Soldiers Alive (1945) Kinkanshoku (1966) [53]

Notes

Physics

Shoichi Sakata reported the "Sakata model" - a model of hadrons in 1956, that inspired Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig's quark model. Moreover, Kazuhiko Nishijima and Tadao Nakano originally given the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula in 1953. ^[54] However, 1969 physics prize was only awarded to Murray Gell-Mann. Afterward, Ivar Waller, the member of Nobel Committee for Physics was sorry that Sakata had not received a physics prize. ^[55]

Yoji Totsuka was leading the experiment that the first definitive evidence for neutrino oscillations was measured, via a high-statistics, high-precision measurement of the atmospheric neutrino flux. His Super-K group also confirmed, along with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), the solution to the solar neutrino problem. The Nobel Prize winning physicist Masatoshi Koshiba was told that if Totsuka could extend his lifespan by eighteen months, he would receive the physics prize. ^[56]

Chemistry

Eiji Osawa prediction of the C₆₀ molecule at Hokkaido University in 1970. ^{[57] [58]} He noticed that the structure of a corannulene molecule was a subset of an Association football shape, and he hypothesised that a full ball shape could also exist. Japanese scientific journals reported his idea, but it did not reach Europe or the Americas. ^{[59] [60]} Because of this, he was not awarded the 1996 chemistry prize.

Seiji Shinkai invented the first molecular machine in 1979, ^[61] but he was not awarded the 2016 chemistry prize. On the contrary, Ben Feringa, one of the 2016 Nobel laureates, made a special trip to Japan in the 1980s to ask Shinkai for advice in the research. ^[62]

Physiology or Medicine

Kitasato Shibasaburō and Emil von Behring working together in Berlin in 1890 announced the discovery of diphtheria antitoxin serum; Von Behring was awarded the 1901 prize because of this work, but Kitasato was not. Meanwhile, Hideyo Noguchi ^[63] and Sahachiro Hata, ^[64] those who missed out on the early Nobel Prize for many times.

Katsusaburō Yamagiwa and his student Kōichi Ichikawa successfully induced squamous cell carcinoma by painting crude coal tar on the inner surface of rabbits' ears. Yamagiwa's work has become the primary basis for research of cause of cancer. ^[65] However, Johannes Fibiger was awarded the 1926 medicine prize because of his incorrect Spiroptera carcinoma theory, while the Yamagiwa group was snubbed by Nobel Committee. In 1966, the former committee member Folke Henschen claimed "I was strongly advocate Dr. Yamagiwa deserve the Nobel Prize, but unfortunate it did not realize". ^[66] In 2010, the Encyclopædia Britannica 's guide to Nobel Prizes in cancer research mentions Yamagiwa's work as a milestone without mentioning Fibiger. ^[67]

Umetaro Suzuki completed the first vitamin complex was isolated in 1910. ^[68] When the article was translated into German, the translation failed to state that it was a newly discovered nutrient, a claim made in the original Japanese article, and hence his discovery failed to gain publicity. Because of this, he was not awarded the 1929 medicine prize.

Satoshi Mizutani ^[69] and Howard Martin Temin jointly discovered that the Rous sarcoma virus particle contained the enzyme reverse transcriptase, and Mizutani was solely responsible for the original conception and design of the novel experiment that confirmed Temin's provirus hypothesis. ^[70] However, Mizutani was not awarded the 1975 medicine prize along with Temin.

As of 2015, there have been seven Japanese who have received the Lasker Award and twelve Japanese who have received the Canada Gairdner International Award, but only three Japanese who have received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Others

A number of important Japanese native scientists were not nominated for early Nobel Prizes, such as Yasuhiko Kojima and Yasuichi Nagano (jointly discovered Interferon), Jōkichi Takamine (first isolated epinephrine), ^[71] Kiyoshi Shiga (discovered Shigella dysenteriae ), Tomisaku Kawasaki (Kawasaki disease is named after him), and Hakaru Hashimoto. After World War II, Reiji Okazaki and his wife Tsuneko were known for describing the role of Okazaki fragments, but he died of leukemia (sequelae of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima) in 1975 at the age of 44.

Masahiko Aoki, seen as the most likely candidate to become the first Japanese to win the Nobel Prize for economics, for developing the Institutional Comparative Analysis, he taught at Kyoto University and Stanford University. Unfortunately, he died in Palo Alto, California, in July, 2015. He was 77.

See also

• List of Japanese people
• List of Nobel laureates
• List of Asian Nobel laureates
• List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Tokyo
• List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Kyoto University
• List of Nobel laureates by country

Notelist

1. Nobel laureates of Japanese birth and origin but subsequently acquired foreign citizenship.
2. The 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Charles J. Pedersen has a Japanese mother and his Japanese first name was Yoshio (良男). Born in Busan, Korea, Japanese protectorate, he moved to Japan with his family at the age of 8 years to attend a convent school in Nagasaki. When he was 10 years old, he moved to Yokohama and entered an international school, called Saint Joseph College in Yamate, Naka-ku.
3. Other nominators include: Bruno Rossi (1905–1993), John C. Slater (1900–1976), Victor Weisskopf (1908–2002), Jerrold R. Zacharias (1905–1986), Philip M. Morse (1903–1985), Albert G. Hill (1910–1996), Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963) and Peter Kruger (?).

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• All Nobel Laureates from the Nobel Foundation
• Japanese Nobel Laureates — Kyoto University (in English)
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• Nominees from JAPAN - Nomination Database (in English)