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The award ceremony for the 21th Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and the 19th Pacific Basin Academic Grant was held with 800 people present at Heian Room of Hotel Okura, Toranomon, Tokyo, at noon on 10th June 2005, after the general meeting of the board of directors |
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| The commemorative shot of President Gaishi Hiraiwa, Executive Director Hiroshi Ohira, the recipients and those concerned |
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| A Speech by Mr. Morio Ikeda, President of Shiseido Co. |
| ［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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"Japan’s Economic Statecraft toward China" Suh Seung Won(Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Kanto-Gakuin University) Profile Suh was born in Yesan, Korea, 1966 and obtained B.A. from Korea University, M.A. from GIP of Kyunghee University, and Ph.D. from Keio University. He is specialized in Japan’s Diplomacy, East Asian International Relations and Political Economy. He was Research Fellow at the BK 21 East Asian Studies Corps of Korea University in 2000 and Assistant Research Professor at the Asiatic Research Center of the same University in 2001. Currently he is Associate Professor at Kanto Gakuin University since 2002. His publications include Korea at the center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia (co-authored, forthcoming), Chinese Politics and East Asia (co-authored, Keio University Press, 2004), Economic Reform of North Korea (co-authored, Humanitas, 2002), and etc. |
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"Forming the Asia Pacific Region: a tale of two liminal nations" Mie Oba (Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Science) Profile Born in Tokyo in 1968. International Christian University, BA. International Relations, 1991. The University of Tokyo, M.A. International Relations, 1994. The University of Tokyo, Ph.D. International Relations, 2002. Post-doctoral Fellow, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, 1998-1999. Research Associate, Department of International Relations, the University of Tokyo, 1999-2001. Lecturer, Tokyo University of Science. 2001-2005. Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Science, 2005-. |
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"Japan's Financial Crisis-Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change" Jennifer Amyx (Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania) Profile Jennifer Amyx is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Before taking up her position at Penn, she carried out research as a Postdoctoral Fellow and then Research Fellow at Australian National University. She is the editor, with Peter Drysdale, of Japanese Governance: Beyond Japan, Inc. and numerous articles and book chapters on the politics of financial regulation and reform in Japan. She has also written extensively on the political economy of regional financial cooperation in East Asia. Currently she is on leave from the University of Pennsylvania and a Shorenstein Fellow at Stanford University’s Asia/Pacific Research Center. There she is completing a book on the politics of reforming and regulating government-backed financial institutions in Japan. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1998 and has been a visiting scholar at the Bank of Japan, the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Institute for Fiscal and Monetary Policy. |
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"The February 28 Incident:
The Formation of Taiwanese Ethnopolitics" Yang Lijun (Assistant Professor, Department of Social Education, National Taipei Teachers College) Profile Yang was born in Shanxi, China in 1968. She received BA degree in television news at Beijing Broadcasting College in 1990, and MA degree in international studies from Yokohama City University in 1999, and a PhD in social sciences from Hitotsubashi University in 2002. Her research interests include China’s Cultural revolution, and China’s social movements and social politics. Her major publications include: “Collective Violence in China’s Cultural Revolution: An institutional Perspective”, Asian Studies, vol.49, no.1(2003); “The Three-In-One Regime in Shanghai in Early Years of the Cultural Revolution: Chaos and Stability”, Chinese Affairs: A Monthly Journal, vol.57, no.11(2003);”Space, Institutions and Violence in China’s Cultural Revolution”, Asian Studies, vol.47, no.4(2001); and “Social Origins of the Red Guard during the Central Revolution”, Contemporary China, no.74(2000) |
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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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"Japan’s Quintessential Asia-Pacific Diplomacy Post WWII-Japan’s plan
for economic cooperation in Asia and collaboration with the US 1952-1966-" Hiroyuki Hoshiro (Research Associate, Research & Information Center for Asian Studies, Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo) Profile Born in Ehime in 1975. Graduated from University of Tsukuba, First Cluster of Colleges, College of Social Sciences in 1999. Completed master program at University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Advanced Social and International Relations in 2001. Worked at IBM Japan from 2001 to 2003. Now Research Associate at The Research & Information Center for Asian Studies, Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo. Published articles are “Kishi Gaiko Hyoka No Sai Kochiku –Tonan Ajia Kaihatsu Kikin Koso No Teisyo to Zasetsu (Revision of Kishi’s Foreign Policy –The Proposal and Collapse of the Ideas of Southeast Asian Development Fund)”, Kokusai Kankei Ron Kenkyu (Studies of International Relations), September (2001). “Tonan Ajia Kaihatsu Kakuryo Kaigi No Kaisai To Nihon Gaiko –1960 Nendai Ni Okeru Nihon No Inisyatibu To Sono Genkai (The Ministerial Conference for the Economic Development of Southeast Asia and Japanese diplomacy –Japan’s Initiative and its Limitations in the 1960s)”, Kokusai Seiji (International Relations), forthcoming. |
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"Research on the traditional houses in colonial cities and in some Haciendas in Mexico, focusing on architectural adaptation to the climate, in order to recover traditional methods of achieving environmental symbiosis, and to redefine the identity of Mexican colonial architecture" Ikuo Kusuhara (Architect in the architectural firm, KMD, Mexico) Profile Born in Tokyo in 1974. 1998 graduated from the Department of Architecture, University of Tokyo. 2000 Masters at the Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo. Architect at the architectural firm Kaplan･McLaghlin･Daiz, Mexico City Office. Research Assistant for Prof. Jose Luis Cortes, Dean of the Department of Architecture, Iberoamerican University, in Mexico City. Research on Mexican colonial architecture and general history of Mexican architecture. 2004 Author of the Mexican chapter of the “Guidebook to World Architecture & Cityscape No.6 America, Canada and Mexico”(Published by X-Knowledge). |
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＜Publication Grant \1,000,000＞
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"Wilson Diplomacy and Japan : Ideal and Reality 1913-1921" Shusuke Takahara (Adjunct Lecturer at Department of Law, Doshisha University) Profile Shusuke Takahara was born in Osaka in 1968. He graduated from the Department of Western History at Kwansei Gakuin University in 1992 and received Ph.D. in Political History from Kobe University in 2002. After serving as a research fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science from 1996-1999, he pursued his studies as a visiting scholar at Department of History, University of Pennsylvania from 1999-2000. He is now an adjunct lecturer at Department of Law, Doshisha University. He has researched on American diplomatic history, the history of Japan-U.S. relations, and American-East Asian relations. The followings are among his most important writings. “America's Withdrawal from Siberia and Its Impact on Japan,” in Gunjishi Gakkai, ed., War in the 20th Century (Tokyo: Kinseisha, 2001); “Wilson Diplomacy and Japan,” Sobun no. 463 (April 2004); “The Wilson Administration and the Mandate Question of the Former German Colonies in the Pacific,” Americashi-kenkyu (Studies of American History) no. 26 (July 2004); Wilson Diplomacy and Japan: Ideal and Reality 1913-1921 (Tokyo: Sobunsha, to be published in 2006). |
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