Shutaro Takeda, a 33-year-old associate professor at Kyushu University, received his knighthood from the Knights of Malta. The international organization with more than 900 years of history recognized his humanitarian works in Bangladesh, Hong Kong, and so on. Shutaro is the only Japanese knight member. Source: Mainichi
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