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!!World Heritage
* [Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/660]
* [Himeji-jo|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/661]
* [Shirakami-Sanchi|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/663]
* [Yakushima|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/662]
* [Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/688]
* [Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/734]
* [Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/775]
* [Itsukushima Shinto Shrine|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/776]
* [Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/870]
* [Shrines and Temples of Nikko|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/913]
* [Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/972]
* [Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1142]
* [Shiretoko|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1193]
* [Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine and its Cultural Landscape|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1246]
* [Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1277]
* [Ogasawara Islands|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1362]
* [Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1418]
* [Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1449]
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!!Nobel Prize Winners (28)
Here persons are counted  for the country they born in or if their affiliation is with this country.
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| [Isamu Akasaki|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2014/akasaki/facts]|Physics|2014|"for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources"
| [Hiroshi Amano|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2014/amano/facts]|Physics|2014|"for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources"
| [Leo Esaki|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1973/esaki/facts]|Physics|1973|"for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively"
| [Kenichi Fukui|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1981/fukui/facts]|Chemistry|1981|"for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions"
|[Tasuku Honjo|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2018/honjo/facts]|Medicine|2018|Research on cancer therapy by inhibiting negative immune reactions
| [Kazuo Ishiguro|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2017/ishiguro-facts/facts]|Literature|2017|"who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world"
| [Takaaki Kajita|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2015/kajita-facts/facts]|Physics|2015|"for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass"
| [Yasunari Kawabata|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1968/kawabata/facts]|Literature|1968|"for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind"
| [Makoto Kobayashi|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2008/kobayashi/facts]|Physics|2008|"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"
| [Syukuro Manabe|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2021/manabe/facts] |Physics|2021|"for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming." 
| [Masatoshi Koshiba|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2002/koshiba/facts]|Physics|2002|"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"
| [Toshihide Maskawa|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2008/maskawa/facts]|Physics|2008|"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"
| [Shuji Nakamura|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2014/nakamura/facts]|Physics|2014|"for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources"
| [Yoichiro Nambu|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2008/nambu/facts]|Physics|2008|"for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"
| [Ryoji Noyori|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2001/noyori/facts]|Chemistry|2001|"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"
| [Kenzaburo Oe|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1994/oe/facts]|Literature|1994|"who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today"
| [Yoshinori Ohsumi|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2016/ohsumi-facts/facts]|Medicine|2016|"for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy"
| [Satoshi Ōmura|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2015/omura-facts/facts]|Medicine|2015|"for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites"
| [Eisaku Sato|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1974/sato/facts]|Peace|1974|
| [Osamu Shimomura|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2008/shimomura/facts]|Chemistry|2008|"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
| [Hideki Shirakawa|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2000/shirakawa/facts]|Chemistry|2000|"for the discovery and development of conductive polymers"
| [Akira Suzuki|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2010/suzuki/facts]|Chemistry|2010|"for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"
| [Koichi Tanaka|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2002/tanaka/facts]|Chemistry|2002|"for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"
| [Sin-Itiro Tomonaga|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1965/tomonaga/facts]|Physics|1965|"for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"
| [Susumu Tonegawa|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1987/tonegawa/facts]|Medicine|1987|"for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity"
| [Shinya Yamanaka|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2012/yamanaka/facts]|Medicine|2012|"for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent"
|[Akira Yoshino|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2019/yoshino/facts]|Chemistry|2019|inventor of lithium-ion batteries
| [Hideki Yukawa|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1949/yukawa/facts]|Physics|1949|"for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces"
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