Overview of the Awards Ceremony for 13th Asia Pacific Research Prize (Iue Prize)

Overview of the Prize and Flow to the Awards Ceremony

The Asia Pacific Research Prize (Iue Prize) was established in 2001 to acknowledge outstanding dissertations written in the field of humanities or social sciences about the Asia Pacific region. The dissertations are written by Japanese and overseas students who have completed post-graduate studies and received doctorates from Japanese graduate schools. This year, we invited students who received doctorates after March 2011 to enter the prize. This definition does include students who withdrew from a course having completed the coursework after March 2011 and received doctorates afterward. Among the theses recommended and gathered from graduate schools all over Japan, the following dissertations were selected to the 13th Asia Pacific Research prize as a result of the strict process conducted by selection committee.

Overview of the Awards Ceremony

At the Awards Ceremony, the prizes were bestowed on winners, Dr. Takeshi Aida, Dr. Toshiyuki Uwano and Dr. Atsushi Kobayashi, by Awaji Conference Representative Director Satoshi Iue (Representative Honorary Member, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd). Dr. Takeshi Aida received an award certificate and 1 million yen prize; Dr. Toshiyuki Uwano and Dr. Atsushi Kobayashi received an award certificate and commemorative present for honorable mention. After the reasons for the selection were explained by the Selection Committee Chairman Yutaka Katayama (Vice President, Kyoto Notre Dame University), each winner gave a speech.