Osamu Shimomura won The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 was awarded jointly to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.

Osamu Mizutani has written:

'Nihongo notes 2'

'Situational Japanese 1'

'An introduction to newspaper Japanese'

'How to be polite in Japanese'

Japanese composer Yoko Shimomura.

Mitsuo Fuchida died on March 30, 1976, in Kashihara, Japan of diabetes.