LETTER: Japan, SA ties run deep
Scientists and academic were awarded Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun
Emma Ruiters mentions in her article what SA has to offer Japan and the little the Japanese know about SA (“SA needs to use its noodle to boost Japanese ties (../../2020-11-29-sa-needs-to-use-its-noodle-to-boost-japanese-ties/)”, November 29). Many Japanese might be surprised to learn of SA’s outstanding scientific contributions to Japan.
In August 2017 two scientists of South African origin, Sydney Brenner (Nobel prize for medicine, 2003) and the famous physicist Jonathan Dorfan, were respectively awarded Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun 1st Class and 2nd Class for their role in establishing the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan’s flagship institute of science and technology...
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