June 27, 2019
The Keio University Faculty of Letters has selected the winner of the 3rd Toshihiko Izutsu Award.
The Toshihiko Izutsu Award is a research incentive award established to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Faculty of Letters in 2015 and to encourage the further success of up-and-coming researchers affiliated with the Faculty. Eligible applicants are full-time faculty members of Keio University, or graduates of the Faculty of Letters, Graduate School of Letters, or 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.
The Junzaburo Nishiwaki Award is another research incentive award that was established around the same time as the Toshihiko Izutsu Award. Since 2016, the Toshihiko Izutsu Award and the Junzaburo Nishiwaki Award have been presented alternately, with the former in odd-numbered years and the latter in even-numbered years.
The award ceremony was held on Wednesday, June 26, at the Mita Campus. Selection Committee Chairperson Keiko Kurata explained the reasons for the selection, followed by the presentation of the certificate and supplementary prize to the author of the winning work, Mr. Kentaro Shimoda, by Yoshimitsu Matsuura, Dean of the Faculty of Letters.
Winning Work: "Weaving the Memories of Minamata: A Historical Anthropology of Resonating Objects and Narratives" (Keio University Press, 2017)
Author: Mr. Kentaro Shimoda (Assistant Professor (fixed-term), Faculty of Letters, Keio University)