2020/06/17
The Keio University Faculty of Letters has selected the winner of the 4th Junzaburo Nishiwaki Academic Award.
The Junzaburo Nishiwaki Academic Award is a research incentive 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 affiliated with the faculty. Eligible applicants are full-time faculty members 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 is for works in the research fields of literature, philology, aesthetics and art history, linguistics, and the arts.
The Toshihiko Izutsu Academic Award was also established as a research incentive award at the same time as the Junzaburo Nishiwaki Academic Award. Since 2016, the Toshihiko Izutsu Academic Award and the Junzaburo Nishiwaki Academic Award have been presented in alternating years, with the former awarded in odd-numbered years and the latter in even-numbered years.
Although the award ceremony was canceled this year to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the author of the winning work, Mr. Fuminobu Nishida,
will be presented with a certificate and a supplementary prize.
Winning Work: "A Descriptive Linguistic Study of the Namuyi Grammar" (Tohoku University Press, 2019)
Author: Mr. Fuminobu Nishida (Associate Professor, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University)