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On 24 October, the Japanese government announced that it has named 15 individuals, including three Kyoto University Professors Emeritus -- Shimon Sakaguchi, Shuh Narumiya, and Michio Muramatsu -- as FY2017 Persons of Cultural Merit.
Professors Narumiya and Muramatsu are active members of the KU faculty; the former is a visiting professor at the Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences (IFLMS), and the latter is director and specially appointed professor at the Graduate School of Medicine's Medical Innovation Center.
Professor Sakaguchi currently serves as deputy director of the Osaka University Immunology Frontier Research Center.
The award ceremony was held 6 November in Tokyo.
