His Nobel Prize-winning research is widely used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, due in large part to Negishi and his colleagues’ wise decision not to patent...
Black ink flowing from the wood-and-horsehair brush onto the starch-white page, calligraphic artist Shoko Kanazawa inscribed, stroke by stroke, the kanji for “katsu” — “victory”.
Most people living in Tokyo rarely have a chance to go to Hiratsuka - a city in the outskirts of the metropolis -...