While Japan's competitors, such as China, often prioritize profit above all else, Tokyo could leverage the country's post-crisis reconstruction experience in Fukushima to inspire development recipients to find hope for the future.
We asked survey recipients what inspired them about their colleagues.
The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage.
In his elegiac piece about two men who inspired him, Doug Wright, the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for "I Am My Own Wife" in 2004, describes the blessing of great art emerging from great suffering.
KEN SOLOMON The logistical triumph of transporting by hand, land, sea, or air a folded piece of paper covered with messages from almost any sender to nearly any recipient has often inspired artists.
I have given this book to many, many people in the course of my life and all the recipients have been as inspired by it as I have been.
Dr. Paul Farmer, a recipient of a MacArthur award [ 1], was inspired as a medical student and resident working in Haiti.
The Dean of Research office established the Marsh O'Neill Award in 1990, inspired by the extraordinary career of Marshall D. O'Neill, its first recipient.
Fans enjoyed dishes by Izard, a James Beard Best Chef: Great Lakes recipient, and Top Chef and Iron Chef Gauntlet winner, inspired by her renowned Chicago restaurants Girl & the Goat, Little Goat and Duck Duck Goat in early June.
Training instructors in Aberdeen, Md., recite the individual citations from Medal of Honor recipients to inspire recruits.
