Prize Winners of the 19th Asia Pacific Research Prize (Iue Prize)

Overview of the Prize and Selection Process

The Asia Pacific Research Prize (Iue Prize) was established in 2001 to reward 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 their doctorates after March 2015 to compete for the prize. This includes students who completed their coursework without degree after March 2015, and then received their doctorates afterward.
  After the strict selection process conducted by the Selection Committee on the theses recommended and gathered from graduate schools all over Japan, Dr. Noriko Unno’s dissertation, “Under Crescent and Full Moons: Contradiction and Coherence of Muslims in Beijing 1906-1913” and Dr. Masayoshi Okabe’s dissertation, “Economic Analyses of the ‘Reversed Gender Disparity’ in Education and Development in the Philippines” were selected for the main prize and Dr. Manami Ueno’s dissertation, “The Policies toward Religious Education in the Republic of Turkey from the 1940s to the 1970s: From the Reintroduction of Religious Education to its Becoming a Compulsory Course” and Dr. Chie Sakurada’s dissertation, “Becoming the Magnificent: Royal Visits and Filmmaking of King Bhumibol" were selected for a Commendation.