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SUSUMU KITAGAWA

Susumu Kitagawa, distinguished professor at Kyoto University and the winner of 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry, holds a compact gas container using a technology he developed during an event in Jakarta on Thursday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 8, 2026
Gas container using Nobel Prize winner’s technology draws attention
The container, named CubiTan, enables more efficient gas transport than conventional gas cylinders due to its design.
Nobel laureate in chemistry Susumu Kitagawa (left), and Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine Shimon Sakaguchi smile during a news conference in Stockholm on Thursday.
JAPAN
Dec 12, 2025
‘A great honor’: Japanese Nobel winners fondly recall award ceremony
“It was a great honor,” said Shimon Sakaguchi, one of the three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Nobel laureate in chemistry Susumu Kitagawa poses with his award during the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2025
Japanese scientists Sakaguchi and Kitagawa receive Nobel Prizes
The total number of Japanese-born Nobel laureates, including those with U.S. nationality, is now 30.
Japanese chemist Susumu Kitagawa, a Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 laureate, speaks at a news conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Sunday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 9, 2025
Nobel co-winner Susumu Kitagawa calls for funds for basic research
It takes around 25 years for basic research to produce results and put them to practical use, says the Kyoto University professor.
Doll-maker Kyugetsu unveiled its 2025 wooden paddles, featuring Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, on Wednesday in Tokyo’s Taito Ward.
JAPAN
Dec 3, 2025
Hagoita paddles depicting newsmakers of 2025 unveiled
Wooden paddles featuring Shohei Ohtani, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and 10 others were unveiled by Tokyo-based doll-maker Kyugetsu on Wednesday.
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Chairman Sadaharu Oh speaks during an interview in Fukuoka on Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2025
Baseball legend Sadaharu Oh and seven others to receive Order of Culture
Susumu Kitagawa, 74, a special professor at Kyoto University and recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry, is among the other recipients.
University of Osaka professor Shimon Sakaguchi (right), and Susumu Kitagawa, special professor at Kyoto University, attend a reception for Swedish Crown Princess Victoria hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo on Monday.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2025
Japanese Nobel winners attend reception in Tokyo
It was the first time Shimon Sakaguchi and Susumu Kitagawa had appeared together in public since being named Nobel laureates last week.
Susumu Kitagawa speaks to reporters at Kyoto University on Wednesday after receiving the news that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry the same day.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 9, 2025
Chemistry Nobel winner Kitagawa says downtime helped him think up new material
Waiting on a supercomputer to analyze the structure of a new crystal gave him time to come up with the idea for a kind of material that could, for example, capture carbon dioxide.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Man arrested over theft of watch that was returned days later to Tokyo mall
A 30-year-old man who is believed to have stolen a luxury wristwatch in Tokyo last month reportedly told police he was the one who had sent it back with a handwritten apology.
Japan not immune to public backlash against data centers, experts say
An apartment resident displays a model of a data center currently in development next door in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, in May.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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