Overview of the Awards Ceremony for 15th 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 2013 to enter the prize. This definition does include students who withdrew from a course having completed the coursework after March 2013 and received doctorates afterward. Among the theses recommended and gathered from graduate schools all over Japan, the following dissertations were selected to the 15th Asia Pacific Research prize as a result of the strict process conducted by selection committee.

Overview of the Awards Ceremony

At the Awards Ceremony on August 5, 2016, the prizes were bestowed on winners, Dr. Ryuju Satomi, Dr. Ryosuke Kuramoto, Dr. So Hoshino and Dr. Hui Li by Awaji Conference Representative Director Satoshi Iue (Representative Honorary Member, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd). Dr. Satomi received an award certificate and 1 million yen prize; Drs. Kuramoto, Hoshino and Li 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.