was a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese biologist, medical doctor and professor of medicine. He was a survivor of the 1945 Hiroshima bomb. He spent eighteen years practicing medicine in the Nepal mountains, as a "barefoot doctor".

Back in Japan, Iwamura founded the Peace, Health, and Human Development Foundation in 1980. He founded the International Human Resources Institute in 1985. Iwamura was awarded the 1993 Ramon Magsaysay Award

Ramon Magsaysay Award

The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society. The Ramon Magsaysay Award is often considered Asia's Nobel...

for Peace and International Understanding.