Welcome to the MASAYOSHI OHIRA Memorial Foundation

［The Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize］

The main prize consists of a commemorative shield and an award of \1,000,000.
The special prize consists of a commemorative shield and an award of \500,000.

Criteria

(１)The award is targeted to works by individual authors, collaborations or compilations, which contribute to the development of “the Pacific Basin Community Concept” and also regional studies of the Pacific Basin region.
(２) In selecting the awarded works, priority will be given in the following order: first the books by individual authors; second collaborative books; and the third compilations.
(３) The publication date of the awarded book, as a rule, must be within two years preceding the award date.
(４) Works which have already received another award will not, as a rule, be eligible for the prize.
(５) The Special Prize will be awarded to works that contribute to broadening the public knowledge on the Pacific Basin Community Concept, such as bibliographic or encyclopedic books, enlightening books etc..
(６) Up to five or six works will be selected, two or three preferably by non-Japanese authors.
(７) Authors must, as a rule, be under the age of fifty.

Recommendation and Application for the prize

Recommendation for the prize is restricted, in principle, to those organizations or individuals that the foundation asks of, but recommendation by other parties is possible. Free application by an author or publisher is also possible, in which case a copy of the book must be sent to the foundation. The term for collecting recommendation is from the beginning of September to the end of November. The Selection Committee decide on the awarded works around March and inform the recipients of the news. Those who fail shall not be informed of the results nor shall their application documents be returned.

[The Pacific Basin Academic Grant]

A Grant for group research is within \5,000,000.
A Grant for individual research is within \ 2,000,000.

Criteria

(１) The grant will be awarded to group and individual researches on politics, economics, culture, science or technology, which serve to further the Pacific Basin Community concept; researches on the Pacific Regions are also eligible.
(２) Researches must be completed within two years at longest and when completed, their outcome must be reported to the foundation in some way.
(３) The number of researches to be awarded the grant is preferably one or two for group researches and three or four for individual researches, half of which are by foreign researchers.
(４) Researchers must, as a rule, be under the age of fifty.

Application

In applying for the grant, recommendation by someone concerning the foundation is necessary in principle, but application without it is also possible. The term for application is from the beginning of August to the end of October. The Selection Committee decide on the awarded works around March and inform the recipients of the news. Those who fail shall not be informed of the results nor shall their application documents be returned. Those wishing to apply for the grant may inquire of the foundation. The application form for the academic grant will be sent in reply.

"The Power Structure of Burma:Civil-Military Relations in Ne Win Regime,1962-1988"
(Kyoto University Press. 2009)

Yoshihiro Nakanishi
(Research Fellow, Area Studies Center, JETRO-IDE)

Profile
Research Fellow, Area Studies Center, Institute of Developing Economies (2008-)
Date of Birth: 28 Dec 1977 (Hyogo, JAPAN)
Ph.D. Kyoto University (2007)
B.A. Tohoku University (2001)
Junior Research Fellow, CSEAS, Kyoto University (2007-2008)
Visiting Research Fellow of SEAMEO-CHAT in Myanmar (Burma) (2003-2005)

"Currency and Contest in East Asia
：The Great Power Politics of Financial Regionalism"
(Cornell University Press 2009)

William W. Grimes
(Associate Professor of International Relations & Director of the Center for the Study of Asia)

Profile
William W. Grimes is associate professor of international relations at Boston University and the founding director of the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia. He is the author of Currency and Contest in East Asia: The Great Power Politics of Financial Regionalism (Cornell University Press, 2009) and Unmaking the Japanese Miracle: Macroeconomic Politics, 1985-2000 (Cornell University Press, 2001), as well as co-editor (with Ulrike Schaede) of Japan's Managed Globalization: Adapting to the 21st Century (M.E. Sharpe, 2002). He has also published articles on the impacts of financial globalization in Japan, monetary policy making in Japan, Japanese economic policy in the bubble and post-bubble periods, East Asian financial regionalism, and Japan's relations with the United States and East Asia. He has been a visiting researcher in the research institutes of both the Japanese Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan.

"Asian regionalism and U.S. Asian policy : international relations in the Asia-Pacific during the Vietnam War"
(Tkyo University Shuppankai, 2009)

Jo Yanghyeon
(Assistant Professor, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Korea)

Profile
He is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Korea since 2006. He obtained BA at Seoul National University, MA and Ph.D. at Tokyo University. His Ph.D. dissertation has been published as Asian Regionalism and U.S. Asian Policy: International Relations in the Asia-Pacific during the Vietnam War in 2009. His area of specialization is Japanese foreign policy, Korea-Japan relations and international relations of Asia and Pacific.

"Chinese Rural Society and Revolution
: The Historical Transformation of Villages in Jinggangshan"
(Keio University Shuppankai, 2009)

Zheng 　Haolan
(Ferris University, Faculty of Global and Inter-cultural Studies,Associate professor)

Profile
1994-1998 Department of International Politics, Fudan University
1998-2001 Master course, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University
2002-2006 Doctoral course, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University
2004-2007 Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
2006-2007 Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University
2007-2009 Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
2009-present Associate Professor, Faculty of Global and Inter-Cultural Studies, Ferris University

"Rural-Urban Migration in China"
(Iwanami-shoten, 2009)

Yan　Shanping　
(Professor, Faculty of Economics,Momoyama Gakuin University)

Profile
I was born in 1963 in Anhui, China. I graduated from the department of agricultural economics, Nanjing Agricultural University in 1984. I came to Japan, and entered the graduate school of Kyoto University in 1985, as a Chinese government scholarship student. I finished the doctoral course in 1991, and the doctor of agriculture was granted at the same time. I was installed as the present post in 2000, and participate in some projects conducted in Toyo Bunko and Waseda University as a joint researcher also now. I have won the Society Prize of The Association for Regional Agricultural & Forestry Economics (1994), the Encouragement Prize of The Agricultural Economics Society of Japan (1998) and the Japanese Agriculture Progress Prize (2002).

＜Individual Research-amount of the grant :￥1,000,000＞

The tracks of normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations by the pro-Chinese factions in the Liberal Democratic Party－in the focus of Furui Yoshimi

Lu　Xueying
(Part-time Instructor of Kyoto University , Kobe Women's University)

Profile
Born in 1975 in Shandong Province, China. Graduated from the Japanese language Department, Tianjin Foreign Language University, China, 1997. Served as a Japanese teacher in the Foreign Language Department, Qufu Normal University, 1997-2003. The master's degree of the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, 2006. ph.D. of Literature, Kyoto University, 2010. Specializes in postwar history of Sino-Japanese　relations and Japanese diplomatic history.　
Major publications in "Furui Yoshimi and the Sino-Japanese LT Trade Negotiations in 1968" The Shirin,Vol.91,No.5,2008/9
"Furui Yoshimi and the Sino-Japanese MT Trade Negotiations in 1970"
Twentieth Century Studies,No.9,2008/12
"Furui Yoshimi and the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations: Laying eyes on the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations from the extension line of the LT/MT trade route" The Shirin,Vol.93,No.2,2010/3,and so on.

＜Publishing Grant-amount of the grant :￥1,000,000＞

Income Inequality and Growth Sustainability in China－ Analyzing Social Direction from the Viewpoint of Health, Education and Pension Policy

Yuji　Miura
(Senior Economist, Center for Asia Pacific Business, The Japan Research Institute, Limited)

Profile
Born in Shimane Prefecture in 1964. He graduate in Social Science from Waseda University in 1989, entered Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and has held a succession of posts such as Researcher of Asia-Pacific Division of Research Deportment, Chief Representative of Hanoi Office and Promoter Asia Business of Planning Department. He joined Asia Pacific Center of The Sakura Research Institute in 1999 and Asia Pacific Business Center of The Japan Research Institute in 2001.His Research interests includes Economics in Asia and Social Protection Policy in China. His recent books are "ODA What Japan can do" (co-editor, Chuoukouronshinsha, 2003), "Internal Economic Disparity in ASEAN" in Co-editor Tkatoshi Ito and Policy Research Institute of Ministry Finance Economic Development of ASEAN and Japan "(Nihonhyouronsha , 2004).