Yoshiaki Ishizawa erhält den Ramon Magsaysay Award

Japanese scholar receives 2017 Magsaysay Award Japan s Yoshiaki Ishizawa holds a commemorative gift after receiving the Ramon Magsaysay Award, one of Asia s highest honors, in Manila, the Philippines, on Aug. 31, 2017. Ishizawa, 79, a former president of Sophia University who spent decades helping to restore Cambodia s Angkor Wat, is one of the year s six recipients of the prestigious honor regarded as Asia s Nobel Prize.