The award ceremony for the 23rd Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and the 21st Pacific Basin Academic Grant was held with 400 people present at Grand and Middle Rooms of Nihon Kougyou Club, Marunouchi, Tokyo, at noon on 12th June 2007, after the general meeting of the board of directors.
The commemorative shot of President Hiroshi Ohira and the recipients

　

A Speech by Mr. Seiji Tsutsumi


［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 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. 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 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and the Recipients' Names
＜Main Prize: Commemorative Shield
and Supplementary Prize:￥1,000,000 (\500,000 for a special prize)＞

"An Ethnography of Poverty: Socioeconomic Life of Five Sama Families in Davao City, Philippines"
Waka Aoyama(Associate Professor, Department of International Development Studies, College of Bioresource Sciences)

Profile
Waka Aoyama was born in Hokkaido in 1968. After receiving her B.A.(1992) and M.A. in commerce from Keio University(1995), she obtained her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Tokyo in 2002. She held several posts including Visiting Research Associate at Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University (1997-2001), Research Associate at the Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo(2001-2004), and Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities, Wayo Women’s University(2004-2007). Currently serving as Associate Professor at the College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, she is at work on her new ethnography on the lives of the diverse peoples in the Philippines.

　





















 "Market and Economic Development for Poverty Reduction"
Yasuyuki Sawada (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo)
Tetsushii Sonobe (Senior researcher at the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development)

Professor Yasuyuki Sawada's Profile
Yasuyuki Sawada was born in Hyogo prefecture, Japan in 1967. After graduation from Department of Economics of Keio University in 1990, he obtained a MA degree in economics from Osaka University in 1992, a MA degree in international relations from the University of Tokyo in 1994, and a MA degree in international development policy from Stanford University in 1996. He has received an economics Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1999. He also served as a visiting researcher at Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) and a consultant at World Bank’s Development Research Group (DECRG). From 1999 to 2003, he was an associate professor at Graduate School of Advanced Social and International Studies of the University of Tokyo and from 2002, he has been an associate professor of economics at Graduate School of Economics at the University of Tokyo. He also serve as a faculty fellow of Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) since 2006. He is the author of International Economics (Shinseisha, 2003, in Japanese).

Professor Tetsushi Sonobe's Profile
Tetsushi Sonobe graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo and entered the Graduate School of the university in 1984. He moved to Yale University in 1987 for postgraduate study and received a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale in 1992. He taught as a lecturer, associate professor, and professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University from 1987 to 2001 and was a visiting research fellow at the Asian Development Bank and the University of the Philippines at Diliman. Since 2003, he has been a senior researcher at the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID) and a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). He is the co-author of Sangyo Hatten no Rutsu to Senryaku: Nicchutai no Keiken ni Manabu (Roots and Strategies of Industrial Development: Lessons from the East Asian Experience, Chisen Shokan, 2004) and Cluster-based Industrial Development: An East Asian Model (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

　




















 "The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy"
Yoshiro Miwa(Professor, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo), J. Mark Ramseyer (the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard University)

Professor Yoshiro Miwa's Profile
Born in 1948 in Aichi Prefecture, Yoshiro Miwa holds a B.A. (1970) and Ph.D. (1976) in Economics from the University of Tokyo. After serving as an Instructor and Assistant Professor at Shinshu University, he became an Assistant Professor (1986) and Professor (1989) at the University of Tokyo. A specialist in industrial organization, regulation, and law & economics, his books include "The Economics of Antitrust Law" (Nihon keizai shimbunsha, 1982), "Firms and Industrial Organization in Japan" (Macmillan, 1996), and "State Competence and Economic Growth in Japan" (RoutledgeCurzon, 2004).

Professor J. Mark Ramseyer's Profile
Born in 1954 in Chicago but raised in Miyazaki Prefecture, Mark Ramseyer holds a B.A. (1976) in History from Goshen College, an M.A. (1978) in Japanese Studies from the University of Michigan, and a J.D. (1982) from Harvard University. After practicing law in Chicago and teaching at UCLA and the University of Chicago, he became the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies (1998) at Harvard University. A specialist in corporate law, law & economics, and Japanese law, his books include "Measuring Judicial Independence" (with Rasmusen, University of Chicago Press, 2003), "Japanese Law: An Economic Approach" (with Nakazato, University of Chicago Press, 1998), and "Odd Markets in Japanese History" (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Miwa and Ramseyer's co-authored works include "Misunderstandings about the Japanese Economy: Liberation from the Spell of the 'Keiretsu'" and "Misunderstandings about Industrial Policy: The Truth about High Growth" (both from Toyo keizai shimpo sha, 2001 and 2002) and "Using Economics: Introduction to the Empirical Study of the Japanese Economy" (Nihon hyoron sha, 2007).


　

"The Political Economy of China’s Reform and Opening-Up"
Yasuyuki Miyake(Associate Professor, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Aichi Prefectural University)

Profile
Yasuyuki Miyake was born in Hyogo in 1969. He obtained B.A. in 1993, M.A. in 1995, and Ph.D in 2003, all from Kyoto University. He was also conferred M.P.I.A. from the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego in 1998. He was a Research Assistant at Graduate School of Law of Kyoto University from 2000 to 2003. He has been an Associate Professor at Faculty of Foreign Studies of Aichi Prefectural University since 2003. He is specialized in China’s Politics and Foreign Relations. His latest publications is Introduction to the Political Economy of Asia (co-authored, 2006).

<Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize - Special Prize>

"The City and the Architecture in Modern China－Cuangzhou・Huangbu・Shanghai・Nanjing・Wuhan・Chongqing・Taibei－"
Shigemitsu Tanaka(Inc. Tokyu-Architecture Design and Consultant)

Profile
He was born in Yanagawa City, Fukuoka in 1951.He obtained B.A.in History Course of Literature and Science Department, in 1990., M.Eng.in Traffic Civil Engineering of Science and Technology Department, in 1994., and Research worker in 1997 all from Nihon University. Ph.D (Eng) in 1997. First-class Architect. He is Member of Shanghai History Seminar in Japanese. The joint work " Shanghai Occupations' being Various " Bensei publishing, in 2002.His paper, the multitude about the Chinese recent times city planning and the Architecture. At present in Research-Exchange, The Shanghai Huadong Technology University of the Public Society Management Academy.




The Theme of the Awarded Research and the Recipient's Name
＜Individual Research-amount of the grant :￥1,100,000＞

"Australia’s Security and Regional Cooperation in the Cold War Era: Searching for Regional Security through Multiple Alignments"
Nana　Yamamoto(Research Student (Ph.D. Candidate), Dept. of Advanced Social and International Relations, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo)

Profile
1997 B.A. from College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo (Dept. of Social and International Relations). 1999 M.A. from Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo (Dept. of Advanced Social and International Studies). 2007 Completed doctoral course and currently a research student (Ph.D. candidate) at the Graduate School.
2003-04 Assistant Research Fellow at the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Seikei University. 2006 Professional Practicum Student at the University of New South Wales / the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW/ADFA). Research interests include International Relations Studies, security cooperation in the Asia Pacific region and Australian foreign policy. Main publications include “Asia Pacific Multilateral Security Cooperation and Australia,” Studies of International Relations (Kokusai Kankeiron Kenkyu), 17(2001), “Australian Security and Regional Cooperation in the Era of the British Withdrawal 1967-1974,” Australian Studies (Australia Kenkyu), 20( 2007).

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


"Telecommunications and the Transformation of U.S. Policy Networks in the Internet Age"
Shoko　Kiyohara(Consultant, InfoCom Research, Inc., Visiting Assistant Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo)

Profile
Born in Tokyo in 1975. Received B.A. in political science from Keio University in 1999. Received M.A. in political science from Keio University in 2001.
Research Associate, and Project Assistant Professor at Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at University of Tokyo (October 2003 – March 2007)
Researcher at InfoCom Research, Inc from April 2007.
Major in American Politics and Telecommunications Policy.
Studied at Georgetown University as a Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellow from July, 2005 to March, 2006.

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