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The award ceremony for the 20th Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and the 18th Pacific Basin Academic Grant was held with 500 people present at Akebono Room of Hotel Okura, Toranomon, Tokyo, at noon on 11th June 2004, after the general meeting of the board of directors |
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| The commemorative shot of President Hiraiwa, Executive Director, recipients and those concerned |
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| A Speech by Mr. Ushio |
| ［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 |
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＜Main Prize: Commemorative Shield and
Supplementary Prize: \1,000,000＞
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"History of Maritime
Islam Society: Mindanao Ethno-history" Shinzo Hayase (Professor, Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka City University) Profile Shinzo Hayase was born in Okayama in 1955. He graduated from the Department of Oriental History at Tokyo University in 1980 and received Ph.D. in History from Murdoch University, Western Australia in 1984. He is now a professor at the Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka City University. He has researched on the maritime Southeast Asian history and the history of Japan-Philippine relations. Among his books are Iwanami Series, Southeast Asian History, Supplement (co-ed., Iwanami-shoten, 2003); Reprinted Firippin Joho (The Philippine Information Bulletin, published by the Philippine Society of Japan in 1936-44) (ed. and annotated, Ryukei-shosha, 2003); Encyclopedia of the Philippines (co-ed., Dohosha, 1992); The Myth and the Reality of the Japanese "Benguet Emigrants" in the Philippines, 1903-1905 (Dobunkan, 1989). |
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"The British Empire and the International
Order of Asia: From the Hegemonic State to the 'Imperial Structural Power'" Shigeru Akita (Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University) Profile Shigeru Akita was born in Hiroshima in 1958. He graduated from Dep.of Western History, Hiroshima University in 1981. He got MA from Hiroshima University and Ph.D in Western History from Osaka University in 2003. After working at Osaka University of Foreign Studies from 1985-2003, he is now Professor of World History, Graduate School of Letters at Osaka University. He has been Visiting Professor at London School of Economics and Political Science in 2001-02. He edited "International Order of Asia in the 1930s"(Keisuisha, 2001), "Gentlemanly Capitalism, Imperialism and Global History"(Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002) and "Pax Britannica and the British Empire"(Mineruva, 2004). His collaborations include "A Study of Empire"(Nagoya University Press, 2003). |
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"Democratization in
Thailand: Grappling with Realities" Yoshifumi Tamada (Associate professor, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University) Profile Yoshifumi Tamada was born in Gifu in 1958. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, Kyoto University in 1981 and finished master program (political science) at the same university in 1983. His major is Thai politics. He worked for Ehime University from 1987 to 1990 and for Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University from 1990 to 1997. He has been associate professor of Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies of the same university since 1997. Among his academic essays are "Formation of Modern State in Thailand", "The Modernization of Bureaucracy and Education in Thailand, 1892-1932", "The Emergence of a National Bureaucracy in Thailand", "Nationalism and the Formation of a Nation in Thailand, 1938-1941" and "Coups in Thailand, 1980-1991". He translated Thak Chaloemtiarana's Thailand: Politics of Despotic Paternalism(Imura Bunka Jigyosha). His "Itthiphon and Amnat: An Informal Aspect of Thai Politics" was translated into Thai language in 1994. |
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"The February 28 Incident:
The Formation of Taiwanese Ethnopolitics" HO I-LIN (Assistant Professor, Department of Social Education, National Taipei Teachers College) Profile Ho I-Lin was born in Taiwan in 1962. He graduated from the Department of Japanese Language and Literature at Soochow University in 1984,and he finished doctor course of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo University, and obtained PhD in 1999. He is now an assistant professor at the Department of Social Studies Education, National Taipei Teachers College. His major is History of Modern Taiwan. The followings are among his most important writings. "The politicization of Taiwanese ethnicity in the course of national language change "（NIHON TAIWAN GAKKAIHOU,1999）, "The real and virtual image of the Japan-Taiwan affinity"（IMPACTION,2000）, "The historial consciousness of the Taiwanese people"（Intriguing ASIA,2003）,"The problem of language in mass media of Taiwan during wartime"（Modern Taiwan and Japan,2003）,"The formation of Taiwanese ethnicity and Austronesia culture"（tohokugaku,2003）. |
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"Unfinished Business-Ayukawa
Yoshisuke and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1937-1953" Haruo Iguchi (Associate Professor, at the Nagoya University Graduate School of Environmental Studies) Profile Born in 1964 in Manila, Haruo Iguchi received his B.A. in Business Economics from Brown University in 1986. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago in 1995. From 1995 to 1996 Dr. Iguchi was a post-doctoral fellow at the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. Afterwards, Doshisha University appointed him as a faculty, first as Assistant Professor (1996-1999) and then as Associate Professor (1999-2001); he taught American History at that University's Graduate School of American Studies. Since 2001 Dr. Iguchi has been Associate Professor in the Law and Politics Program in the Division of Social and Human Environment at the Nagoya University Graduate School of Environmental Studies. He teaches U.S.-East Asia Relations and International Studies in that program as well as in the Department of Informatics and Sciences at Nagoya University. Dr. Iguchi's recent works include "Sengo Nihon no Kunshusei to Amerika (The Postwar Japanese Monarchy System and the U.S.)" in Ito Yukio and Kawada Minoru, eds., Nijyuseiki Nihon no Tenno to Kunshusei: Kokusai Hikaku no Shiten kara 1867-1947 (Japanese Emperors in the Twentieth Century and the Monarchy System: International Comparisons, 1867-1947) (Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 2004); "Taiheiyo Senso Shuketsu o Meguru Rekishi Ronso-Bonner Fellers no Henry Stimson moto Rikugun Chokan Hihan (History Wars regarding How the Pacific War Ended: Bonner Fellers's Criticism of former Secretary of Army Henry Stimson)" in Chihiro Hosoya, Akira Iriye and Ryo Oshiba, eds., Kioku to shite no Pearl Harbor (Pearl Harbor as Memory) (Kyoto: Minerva Shobo, 2004). |
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| The Theme of the Awarded Research and the Recipient's Name |
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＜Individual Researches-amount
of the grant :\1,000,000 for each＞
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"Rebuilding
Confidence in the Asia-Pacific Region A Comparative Analysis of Contemporary China-Japan-US Relations in Global Context" Xiaohua Ma (Associate Professor of Faculty of International Studies, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Osaka University of Education) Profile Xiaohua Ma is Associate Professor of Faculty of International Studies, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Osaka University of Education, Japan, currently a visiting scholar in the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University (2002-04), 2002 Abe Fellow of Social Science Research Council, USA. Her scholarship has focused on World War II and post-war international relations in the Asia-Pacific region. Her major publication includes Maboroshi no Shinchitsujo to Ajia Taiheiyo: Dainijisekaitaisenki no Beichuu-Domei no Atsureki, 1941-1945 [Illusionary New Orders and the Asian Pacific: The Chinese-American Alliance in the War against Japan, 1941-1945] (Tokyo, 2000, 2000 Best Book Award from Japanese Association of American Studies), Pearl Harbor as Memory (co-author, Mineruva, 2004), and The Legal Development of Japanese Colonial Empire (co-author, Shinzansha, 2004). |
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"A Research
on Chinese Engineering Students in Japan and their Activities from
the End of Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China (1899-1945)" XU Subin (JSPS Research Fellow, International Research Center for Japanese Studies) Profile XU Subin is currently a Research Fellow at International Research Center for Japanese Studies, and a Guest Professor at West South Jiao Tong University, China. She got Ph.D. from Tianjin University, China in 1992. She was a Visiting Research Scholar at International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo and Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo. She also worked as a Lecturer at Tianjin University and Tsinghua University, China. Her research field is Industrial History, Urban and Architectural Cultural History between Japan and China. She published Japanese Studies on Chinese Urban and Architecture (China, 1999). She was awarded excellent research prizes from East Japan Railway Culture Foundation in 2003 and Architectural Institute of China in 1983. |
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"Economic
Analysis for New Financial Architecture in East Asia- Evidence from
Firm's Micro Data Analysis" Mamoru Nagano (Senior Economist, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. PhD. In International Public Policy) Profile 1966 Born in Osaka, Japan 1990 Yokohama City University 1992 M.A. in Commerce (Banking & Finance), Waseda University 1992-1999 Economist Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc 2000- Secondee, Regional Economic Monitoring Unit, Asian Development Bank 2002- Senior Economist, Research Center for Policy and Economy, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. 2004- Ph.D. in International Public Policy, Osaka University Selected Publications: "Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Cointegration in Yen-Dollar Exchange Rate Models", JCER Economic Journal, December 1997. "Inter-Regional and Intra-Regional Trade in Post-Crisis Asia: Challenges and Opportunities," Journal of Economic Integration, Volume 18 Number 1, March 2003. |
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