Introduction

The Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Foundation was established on 29th of May 1985, five years after the late Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira’s unexpected death, donated by Mrs. Shigeko Ohira and his second son Hiroshi Ohira, with the support of the economic world such as Gaishi Hiraiwa, Chairman of Keidanren (Japan Federation of Economic Organizations). The ministry in charge of the foundation is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the main activities are related to the development of the Pacific Basin Community Concept

Purpose of the Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to commemorate the achievement of late Prime Minister Ohira, to support academic studies and other activities on Pacific Basin Community Concept which forms an important part of Japan’s foreign policy, and thereby to contribute to development of the concept and the spread of the thought.

Main activities of the Foundation

The foundation’s main activities are as follows:

(1)	To award “the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize” for excellent books on politics, economics, culture, and technology, which contribute to the development of the Pacific Basin Community Concept.
(2)	To support group or individual researches which are qualified to contribute to the development of the Pacific Basin Community Concept.
(3)	To establish and manage the Ohira Memorial Hall which exhibits prime minister Ohira’s mementos and concerned materials, by remodeling the Ohira Library in his hometown, Kanonji in Kagawa.
(4)	To publish late Prime Minister Ohira’s biographies, books of his own writings and studies on him in order to commemorate his achievements, character and so on.
(5)	To do other activities necessary to fulfill the purpose written above.

Board of Directors

President	Hiroshi Ohira
Executive Director	Hiroshi Ohira
Directors	Eiji Toyoda	Shoji Uehara
	Koichi Kato	Kazuo Wada
	Takaichi Mabuchi	Junji Ogura
	Seiichi Saida

Auditors

Kenji Manabe

Shinji Fukukawa

Trustees	Jiro Ushio	Masataka Kataoka
	Kazunori Fujita	Michio Kondo
	Seiji Tsutsumi	Minoru Nagaoka
	Hajime Morita	Atsushi Abe
	Yoshiyasu Sato	Yuichiro Nagatomi
	Hajime Tsutsui	Shusuke Takenaka
	Yukiyoshi Ozaki	Shinichiro Shiranishi
	Takashi Mabuchi	Yuzo Ishibashi
	Masaaki Taira	Tomonori Ohira

The Selection Committee

The General Committee

Chairman	Akio Watanabe	Vice President, Research Institute for Peace and Security
Members	Sueo Sekiguchi	Professor emiritus, Seikei University
	Masaki Moritani	Vice President, LCA Institute of Business
	Toshio Watanabe	President, Takushoku University
	Katsuji Nakagane	Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
	Susumu Yamakage	Professor, Tokyo University
	Ippei Yamazawa	Professor emeritus, Hitotsubashi University
	Akira Suehiro	Professor, Tokyo University
	Kazuko Mohri	Professor, Waseda University
	Junko Kato	Professor, Tokyo University