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...prize, which is presented annually by the Inamori Foundation, includes a diploma, a gold medal and 50 million yen (approximately $460,000), to be presented in November in Kyoto, Japan...
...Kyoto Prizes are given in three areas: Advanced Technology, Basic Sciences, and Creative Arts and Moral Sciences. Each year these general areas are narrowed to more specific subfields. This year the subfields are the information sciences, life sciences and philosophy...
...statement of the philosophy of the Kyoto Prizes, Kazuo Inamori, president of the Inamori Foundation, explained the qualities the foundation seeks to recognize...
...Recipients of the Kyoto Prizes must be...people who are sensitive to their own human fallibility, and who have a deeply rooted reverence for the universal spirit," wrote Inamori...
Once nominated for the Kyoto Prize, a candidate must undergo a rigorous two-and-a-half year selection process with four tiers of committees...