2025/07/10
The Faculty of Letters, Keio University has selected the winner of the 6th 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 the further success of up-and-coming researchers affiliated with the faculty. Eligibility is open to full-time faculty 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.
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 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 3, at the Mita Campus. Takao Sato, Dean of the Faculty of Letters, presented the award certificate and a supplementary prize to the author of the winning work, Shingo Suzuki, and members of the Toshihiko Izutsu Award selection committee offered their congratulations.
Winning Work: "The Birth of State Medicine in the Modern Ottoman Empire: Hygiene and Infectious Diseases in the Port City of Izmir" (Keio University Press, 2024)
Author: Shingo Suzuki (Research Fellow (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science / Part-time Lecturer, Keio University)