June 2, 2021
The Faculty of Letters, Keio University has selected the winner of the 4th 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, as well as graduates of the Faculty of Letters, the Graduate School of Letters, and 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. Since 2016, the Toshihiko Izutsu Award has been presented in odd-numbered years and the Junzaburo Nishiwaki Award in even-numbered years, alternating annually.
The award ceremony was held on Thursday, July 8, at the Mita Campus. Selection Committee Chairman Takaaki Chikamori explained the reasons for the selection, followed by Yoshimitsu Matsuura, Dean of the Faculty of Letters, who presented the award certificate and supplementary prize to the author of the winning work, Masayuki Shimura.
Winning Work: "Minakata Kumagusu's London: International Academic Journals and the Progress of Modern Science" (Keio University Press, 2020)
Author: Masayuki Shimura (Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Letters, Keio University)