Two Nobel Prize winners from Japan to attend award ceremony in Stockholm

Shimon Sakaguchi, (left), and Susumu Kitagawa show their signatures on chairs in Stockholm on Tuesday. - Photo: Pool photo / The Yomiuri Shimbun

STOCKHOLM: This year’s Nobel Prize winners from Japan, Shimon Sakaguchi and Susumu Kitagawa, both aged 74, will attend the award ceremony at a concert hall in Stockholm on Wednesday (Dec 10) evening.

Sakaguchi, a distinguished honorary professor at the University of Osaka, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and Kitagawa, a distinguished professor at Kyoto University, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.