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Royalty Feud with Nobel Laureate Takes Center Stage at Ono Shareholder Meeting
Shareholders of Ono Pharmaceutical on June 20 shot a flurry of questions at the company on its ongoing dispute with Tasuku Honjo, a professor at Kyoto University and a winner of last year’s Nobel Prize in medicine, who is demanding…
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