2023/06/07
The Faculty of Letters at Keio University has selected the winner of the 5th Toshihiko Izutsu Award.
The Toshihiko Izutsu 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 further contributions from up-and-coming researchers affiliated with the faculty. Eligible applicants are full-time faculty or 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 is for publications in research fields related to philosophy, ethics, history, ethnology and archaeology, library and information science, sociology, psychology, education, and human sciences.
Additionally, 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 in alternating years, with the former in odd-numbered years and the latter in even-numbered years.
The award ceremony was held on Wednesday, June 28, at the Mita Campus. Keiko Kurata, Dean of the Faculty of Letters, presented a certificate and a supplementary prize to the author of the winning work, Mr. Noritaka Maeda, and the members of the Toshihiko Izutsu Award selection committee offered their congratulations.
Winning Work: "Shio to Teikoku: Kindai Nihon no Shijō, Senbai, Shokuminchi" (University of Nagoya Press, 2022)
Author: Mr. Noritaka Maeda (Associate Professor, Faculty of Letters, Keio University)