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Tokyo, Japan - Monday, December 3, 2001 - The Takeda Foundation of Japan has named Richard M. Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation and founder of the GNU project, as co-recipient of the 2001 Takeda Award. As part of this honor, Stallman will receive a monetary award of approximately 33 million yen (currently about US$268,000).