A Japanese biologist, medical doctor and professor of medicine who was the only survivor, amongst eighty high school classmates, of the 1945 Hiroshima bombing

An Indian physician and activist in family planning andpopulation control and pioneered programmes of community health workers in rural areas of Maharashtra, the third largest state in India

A Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who founded the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance

An Indonesian social worker who established a national movement that mobilized volunteers and who institutionalized social services

The founding Managing Director of the International House of Japan and a pioneer in building constructive relations between Japanese and others through shared knowledge of their diverse histories, needs and national aspirations

A social worker from Bangladesh who championed the role of women, especially from rural areas, in improving their families' livelihoods

As a creative social historian of contemporary trends who encouges both Asians and outsiders to look more carefully at the village folkways they would modernize

A committed humanitarian, pediatrician, administrator, educator, researcher, author, public health advocate, whose pioneering spirit in fostering health and preventing sickness particularly among children helped not only in reducing infant morbidity and mortality in the country but also in establishing health, research, and educational institutions

A Japanese pioneer in rural health care who contributed to medical activities in agricultural communities in Japan