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 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 Politics of Finance in South Korea"
Yutaka Onishi(Professor of Government, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University)

Profile
Yutaka Onishi is Professor of Government at Kobe University. He was born in Hyogo, 1965 and obtained B.A., 1989, and M.A., 1991 from Kyoto University. Before taking up his position at Kobe, he was Research Associate from 1993 to 1994 and Associate Professor from 1994 to 2005 at Faculty of Law, Osaka City University. He is specialized in the Study of Government and Korean Political Economy. His publications include Comparative Electoral Politics (co-authored, 2004), Civil Society and Interest Group in Contemporary Korea (co-authored, 2004), and so on.

"The East Asian Linkage and Japanese Firms: A New Perspective of Corporate Growth"
Tomofumi Amano
(Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Hosei University)

Profile
Tomofumi Amano was born in Osaka in 1973. He obtained B.A. in Business Administration in 1996, M.A. in 1998, and Ph.D in 2001 all from Hitotsubashi University. He was an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Management of Toyo University from 2001 to 2004. He has been an Associate Professor at Faculty of Management of Hosei University since 2004. He is specialized in International Business, and Business Strategy.