Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro is being celebrated around the world for winning this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy cited his "novels of great emotional force".

The Nobel Prize committee has awarded a winner in ... Back in 2017, no one was expecting the widely read English-Japanese ...

A team of Japanese researchers has been honored with an Ig Nobel prize ... analyzes the substances that humans excrete. The literature prize went to a team from France, the UK, Malaysia and ...

said Sara Danius Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japanese-born British novelist best known for “The Remains of the Day,” won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday. The selection of the 62-year-old ...

He became the second Japanese person to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994 and was named to receive the Order of Culture but declined it the same year. “It’s an award connected to ...

Renowned philosopher Kojin Karatani, whose influential books include “The Structure of World History,” has been awarded this year's Berggruen Philosophy and Culture Prize, regarded as the ...

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo ... physiology or medicine, and literature. A prize for economics was later created in his name.

The 2016 Nobel Prize season continues this week and next with other science awards and those for peace, literature and economics being awarded. Predicting the winners is a game of chance — fans of ...

This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to a Japanese organisation of atomic ... He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.

That concern drove the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award this year's prize to the Japanese organization, though it had honored other nuclear non-proliferation work in the past. Jørgen Watne ...

The prize, according to the will by Alfred Nobel, is given to ... Canadian author Margaret Atwood, Russian novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, Canadian poet Carson ...

A Japanese and a Canadian scientist won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for ... awarded in 1901 to honor achievements in science, literature and peace in accordance with the will ...