July 11, 2017
The Faculty of Letters, Keio University has selected the winner of the 2nd Toshihiko Izutsu Award.
The Toshihiko Izutsu Award is a research encouragement award established in 2015 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Faculty of Letters and to encourage the further success of up-and-coming researchers associated with the faculty. Eligibility is open to full-time faculty and staff of Keio University, or graduates of the Faculty of Letters, the Graduate School of Letters, or the Graduate School of Human Relations, who are, in principle, under 50 years of age. The award covers publications in the research fields of philosophy, ethics, history, ethnology and archaeology, library and information science, sociology, psychology, education, and human sciences.
Additionally, the Junzaburo Nishiwaki Award was established as a research encouragement award around the same time as the Toshihiko Izutsu Award. From 2016 onward, the awards are presented alternately, with the Toshihiko Izutsu Award in odd-numbered years and the Junzaburo Nishiwaki Award in even-numbered years.
The award ceremony was held on Friday, July 7, at The Cafeteria on the Mita Campus. Takayuki Sakagami, Dean of the Graduate School of Human Relations and Chairman of the Toshihiko Izutsu Award Selection Committee, explained the reasons for the selection. This was followed by the presentation of a certificate and a supplementary prize to the author of the winning work, Makoto Takayama, by Yoshimitsu Matsuura, Dean of the Faculty of Letters.
Winning Work: "Becoming a 'Hibakusha': Life Story Interviews of a Transforming 'Self'" (Serica Shobo, 2016)
Author: Makoto Takayama