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| The award ceremony for the 19th Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and the 17th Pacific Basin Academic Grant was held with 500 people present at Akebono Room of Hotel Okura, Toranomon, Tokyo, at noon on 12th June 2003, 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 President Hiraiwa |
| ［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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“The Encyclopedia of Lu Xun" Shozo Fujii (Professor at the Faculty of Letters and Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Tokyo University) Profile Shozo Fujii was Born in Tokyo in 1952. He graduated from the department of Chinese literature at Tokyo University in 1976; finished Master Course of the same university in 1982; and received PhD in Literature in 1991. He is now a professor at the Faculty of Letters and Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Tokyo University. He majors in the modern literature of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Among his books are “A Poet Eroshenko's tale of East Asian Cities”（Misuzu Shobo）, “The History of Reading of Lu Xun's My Old Home: TheSpace of Literature in Modern China”（Sobunsha）, “Taiwanese Literature of This One Hundred years”（Toho Shobo） and ”The One Hundred Years Seen Through Chinese Films ”（Iwanami Shoten）. His translations are as follows: Li Ang’s “The Butcher's Wife” （Takarajima-sha）, Mo Yan’s“The Republic of Wine”（Iwanami Shoten）、Zheng Yi’s “The Divine Tree”（Asahi Shimbun） and Shi Shuqing’s “Victoria Club ”（Kokusho Kankokai）. |
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“Transformation of ethnic minorities
society in Central Asia: Focusing on Koreans in Kazakhstan” Aeliah Lee (Research Fellow, National Museum of Ethnology) Profile Aeliah Lee finished Doctor Course of Graduate School of Human and Environmental Study, Kyoto University and received PhD in Human and Environmental Study from the University in 2000. Her main field is the study of Central Asia and of minority races in Central Asia. She was a Foreign Fellow of The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) from 2000 to 2001; has been a Research Fellow at National Museum of Ethnology and also a concurrently assistant professor at department of North Korean Studies, Myongji University since 2002. Among her collaborations is “Koryosaram in Kazakhstan” (in Korea). Among her other theses are “The Independence of Kazakhstan and the Change of Korean Society”, “The Circumstances of Kazakhstan’s Loan and Investment”, “The Agricultural Situation of Korean Society in Kazakhstan”, “The Situation of Minority Races in Kazakhstan: Focusing on Germans and Koreans”, “The Problem of Korean Migration in Russia: Focusing on 1937 Forced Migration”, “The Racial Dispute in Tajikistan and Koryosaram. |
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‘Modern Chinese Economy Series’
Volume Three : Diastrophic Changes of the Labor Market” Tomoo Marukawa (Associate Professor at Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo) Profile Tomoo Marukawa was born in Tokyo in 1964. He graduated from the faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo in 1987, when he entered in the Institute of Developing Economies. He was a visiting scholar at Institute of Industrial Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Science from 1991 to 1993 and has been an associate professor at Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo since 2001. Among his books is “Dynamics of Market Emergence -Chinese Economy in Transition” (IDE, 1999); and his collaborations “China's Industrial Policy in transition”, ”Ownership and Management of Chinese Enterprises”(both IDE, 2000, 2002) and ”The Handbook of Chinese Industry” (Sososha, 2000, 2003). |
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| The Theme of the Awarded Research and the Recipient's Name |
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＜An Individual
Research-amount of the grant :\1,500,000＞
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“Expansion of R&D
Activities by Japanese Multinational Enterprises in Asia” Yasuyuki Todo (Assistant Professor of Tokyo Metropolitan University) Profile Yasuyuki Todo is an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics, Tokyo Metropolitan University in Tokyo, Japan. He holds a B.A. in Asian studies from the University of Tokyo, an M.A. in food research and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. In 2000, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Economics, Southern Illinois University. His research field is economic growth, and his papers includes "Empirically Consistent Scale Effects: An Endogenous Growth Model with Technology Transfer to Developing Countries" and "The Revival of Scale Effects." |
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