Keio University

2025 Awards for Research Activities

This page features information on awards received by Keio University faculty and staff through their research activities.

*Affiliations and titles are as of the time of the award.

Recipient Name

Award Name, Reason for Award, Presenter

Award Date

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Seiichiro Katsura (Katsura Laboratory)

Received the "IIFES 2025 University/Technical College Technical Academy Research Presentation Grand Prize"

Reason for Award: For the presentation theme "Motion Copying Robot Hand"

Presenter: The Japan Electrical Manufacturers' Association, Nippon Electric Control Equipment Industries Association, Japan Electric Measuring Instruments Manufacturers' Association

2025/11/21

Awardee

Award Name, Reason for Award, Awarding Body

Award Date

Graduate School of Media and Governance

Jun Kihara, Senior Assistant Professor

Recipient of "The 24th Japan Sociological Society Encouragement Award [Article Category]"

Reason: For the paper "Social Mobility Across the Pacific: An Analysis of Japanese Americans in the Continental United States"

Awarding Body: Japan Sociological Society

2025/11/15

Faculty of Pharmacy

Sho Masui, Assistant Professor; Kodai Yajima, Assistant Professor; Takashi Shimada, Visiting Associate Professor; Atsushi Yonezawa, Professor; and others

Recipient of "International Session Award"

Reason: For "Evaluation of infliximab biotransformation through comparison of quantification by ligand-binding assay and mass spectrometry"

Awarding Body: The 35th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences

2025/11/23

Faculty of Pharmacy

Hayato Kizaki, Assistant Professor; Masami Tsuchiya, Project Senior Assistant Professor; Shungo Imai, Associate Professor; Satoko Hori, Professor; and others

Recipient of "Excellent Presentation Award (General Presentation)"

Reason: For "Development of a new drug name similarity index considering voiced and semi-voiced sounds and its application to risk assessment of drug mix-ups in dispensing settings"

Awarding Body: The 35th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences

2025/11/23

Faculty of Science and Technology

Masafumi Hagiwara, Professor Emeritus

Recipient of "Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics Achievement Award"

Reason: For achieving outstanding results in related fields and contributing to the development of the society

Awarding Body: Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics

2025/09/04

Faculty of Science and Technology

Kenji Kono, Professor

Recipient of "FY2025 Computer Science Domain Achievement Award"

Reason: For contributions to research, human resource development, and the management of research groups and meetings

Awarding Body: Information Processing Society of Japan

2025/12/01

Law School

Hiroshi Matsuo, Professor

Recipient of "The Japan Real Estate Society FY2024 Article Award"

Reason: For the paper "How to perceive the mandatory application for real estate inheritance registration within the civil law system"

Awarding Body: The Japan Real Estate Society

2025/11/15

Faculty of Business and Commerce

Akinori Ono, Professor,

Graduate School of Business and Commerce

Ryohei Kitazawa, Assistant Professor, and others

Recipient of "KODIA 2025 International Conference on Global Retailing Innovation Best Paper Award"

Reason: For the paper "The Role of Self-esteem in Shaping Parasocial Relationships with AI Avatars Across the Warmth-competence Matrix"

Awarding Body: Korea Distribution Association (KODIA)

2025/11/01

Graduate School of Business Administration

Kazuhiro Asakawa, Professor

Recipient of "IETI Distinguished Fellow"

Reason: For outstanding research achievements and research leadership

Awarding Body: The International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI)

2025/11/05

Faculty of Economics

Wakako Kumakura, Professor; Naoko Fukami, Visiting Professor; and others

Recipient of "FY2025 Poster Session Award"

Reason: For "Development of a map database of the historic city of Cairo and characteristics of urban space"

Awarding Body: Geographic Information Systems Association of Japan

2025/11/02

Faculty of Economics

Mizuki Kawabata, Professor

Recipient of "Geographic Information Systems Association Award, Academic Paper Category"

Reason: For contributions through the publication of academic papers related to geographic information systems

Awarding Body: Geographic Information Systems Association of Japan

2025/11/02

Faculty of Economics

Mizuki Kawabata, Professor; Michio Naoi, Professor; and others

Recipient of "FY2025 Poster Session Award"

Reason: For "Analysis of regional and social factors of life expectancy and healthy life expectancy"

Awarding Body: Geographic Information Systems Association of Japan

2025/11/02

Faculty of Science and Technology

Kenji Kono, Professor, and others

Recipient of "Japan Society for Software Science and Technology Expository Paper Award"

Reason: For contributing to the dissemination of knowledge and the development of academia through excellent explanations of software science and technology

Awarding Body: Japan Society for Software Science and Technology

2025/09/05

Faculty of Science and Technology

Yoshihiro Taguchi, Professor

Recipient of "Japan Society of Thermophysical Properties Contribution Award"

Reason: In recognition of contributions to the society through international public relations activities

Awarding Body: Japan Society of Thermophysical Properties

2025/10/09

Faculty of Pharmacy

Masayo Hayakawa, Researcher; Hayato Kizaki, Assistant Professor; Masami Tsuchiya, Project Senior Assistant Professor; Yuki Yanagisawa, Project Assistant Professor; Shungo Imai, Associate Professor; Satoko Hori, Professor

Recipient of "The 19th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Communication Excellence Award, General Presentation (Poster)"

Reason: For "A mail survey of pharmacists on the potential use of a Question Prompt List for Pharmacists (QPLP)"

Awarding Body: The 19th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Communication

2025/09/28

Faculty of Pharmacy

Masami Tsuchiya, Project Senior Assistant Professor; Shungo Imai, Associate Professor; Hayato Kizaki, Assistant Professor; Satoko Hori, Professor; and others

Recipient of "Medinfo2025 Best Paper Award"

Reason: For "Natural Language Processing-Based Approach to Detect Common Adverse Events of Anticancer Agents from Unstructured Clinical Notes: A Time-to-Event Analysis"

Awarding Body: The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)

2025/08/13

Faculty of Business and Commerce

Akinori Ono, Professor, and others

Recipient of "Japan Marketing Academy Poster Session 2025 / Best Poster Award"

Reason: For the paper "Are people who become obsessed with influencers lacking in self-confidence? - An examination using the Stereotype Content Model -"

Awarding Body: Japan Marketing Academy

2025/10/12

Faculty of Science and Technology

Yuji Nagasaka, Professor Emeritus

Recipient of "Japan Society of Thermophysical Properties Honorary Member Award"

Reason: For long-standing contributions to the progress of research in thermophysical properties and related fields, as well as to the society

Awarding Body: Japan Society of Thermophysical Properties

2025/10/09

Faculty of Science and Technology

Mihoko Minami, Professor Emeritus

Recipient of "The 30th Japan Statistical Society Award"

Reason: For achievements such as long-term contributions to the development and dissemination of statistics, continuation of interdisciplinary joint research, and contributions to education and research guidance at this Juku

Awarding Body: Japan Statistical Society

2025/09/10

Graduate School of Business Administration

Qinghong Liu, Professor

Recipient of "The 57th (FY2024) Japan Academy of Business Administration Society Award (Meito Special Award)"

Reason: For the book "Integrated Strategy: Discussing the Total Value Chain with the 'Ethical Man' Model"

Awarding Body: Japan Academy of Business Administration

2025/08/31

Faculty of Science and Technology

Tomoaki Okuda, Professor

Recipient of "Japan Society for Atmospheric Environment Academic Award"

Reason: For "Experimental research and social contribution related to the atmospheric environment and human health"

Awarding Body: Japan Society for Atmospheric Environment

2025/09/18

Faculty of Science and Technology

Taku Hasobe, Professor

Recipient of "The 39th Japanese Photochemistry Association Award"

Reason: For achieving remarkable results in research in the field of photochemistry

Awarding Body: Japanese Photochemistry Association

2025/09/05

Faculty of Science and Technology

Shinnosuke Obi, Professor, and others

Recipient of "3rd Place, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fluids Engineering Division Flow Visualization Competition"

Reason: For the excellence of the research presentation video at the ASME 2025 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting (Philadelphia, USA)

Awarding Body: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Fluids Engineering Division

2025/07/27

Faculty of Science and Technology

Shinnosuke Obi, Professor, and others

Recipient of "The 29th (FY2024) Engineering Education Award, Achievement Category"

Reason: For activities through "Measuring the ability to think like an engineer - Utilization of the Tuning test question bank for educational management"

Awarding Body: Japanese Society for Engineering Education

2025/08/27

Graduate School of Media and Governance

Jun Kihara, Senior Assistant Professor

Recipient of "Asia and Asian America Section Best Research Paper Award (Honorable Mention)"

Reason: For the paper "Social Mobility Across the Pacific: An Analysis of Japanese Americans in the Continental United States"

Awarding Body: American Sociological Association

2025/08/12

Faculty of Science and Technology

Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Professor,

Graduate School of Science and Technology

Yue Yin, Project Assistant Professor, and others

Recipient of "2025 5th International Conference on Intelligent Communications and Computing (ICICC 2025), Best Paper Award"

Reason: For the paper "Think Globally, Train Locally: Federated Radio Frequency Fingerprinting for IoT Device Authentication"

Awarding Body: 2025 5th International Conference on Intelligent Communications and Computing (ICICC 2025)

2025/08/16

Graduate School of Business Administration

Qinghong Liu, Professor

Recipient of "Japan Society for Business Ethics 5th (FY2025) Masakazu Mizutani Encouragement Award (Book Category)"

Reason: For the book "Integrated Strategy: Discussing the Total Value Chain with the 'Ethical Man' Model"

Awarding Body: Japan Society for Business Ethics

2025/07/19

Global Research Institute

Keiko Okawa, Project Professor

Recipient of "Ganesa Wirya Jasa Adiutama Award"

Reason: For efforts in strengthening academic exchange with ITB for approximately 30 years and promoting innovative education, establishing a role as a strategic partner in internationalization

Awarding Body: Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)

2025/07/03

Recipient Name

Award Name, Reason for Award, Awarding Body

Award Date

Faculty of Pharmacy

Assistant Professor Shingo Kondo

Recipient of the "34th General Meeting of the Japan Socio-Gerontology Society Joint Poster Excellence Award"

Reason: For the presentation title "Relationship between periodontal disease scores, dry mouth, and oral frailty among pharmacy visitors"

Awarding Body: 34th General Meeting of the Japan Socio-Gerontology Society

2025/06/29

Faculty of Science and Technology

Senior Assistant Professor Yukiko Osawa

Recipient of the "38th Hiroshi Ando Memorial Academic Encouragement Award"

Reason: Recognized for the exceptional originality and future potential of the research "Development of thermal sensing and control technology for human-machine collaboration"

Awarding Body: Ando Laboratory Foundation

2025/06/28

Faculty of Science and Technology

Associate Professor Mayumi Ikeda

Recipient of the "Japan Society for Medieval European Studies 8th Poster Award, Jury Prize"

Reason: For the poster presentation "A Comparative Analysis of Decorative Initials in the Catholicon Published in 1460(?)"

Awarding Body: Japan Society for Medieval European Studies

2025/06/15

Faculty of Pharmacy

Assistant Professor Hayato Kizaki

Recipient of the "FY2025 Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences Postdoctoral Award"

Reason: For the paper title "Study on the construction of an analysis platform for drug-related incidents experienced by non-medical personnel in care facilities"

Awarding Body: Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences

2025/06/03

Keio University Hospital

Department of Pharmacy

Assistant Supervisor Keisuke Seimiya

Recipient of the "FY2025 Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences Postdoctoral Award"

Reason: For the paper title "Study on the interaction between pharmaceuticals and antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs)"

Awarding Body: Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences

2025/06/03

Faculty of Pharmacy

Associate Professor Shungo Imai, Assistant Professor Hayato Kizaki, Professor Satoko Hori, et al.

Recipient of the "FY2025 Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences Paper Award"

Reason: For the paper title "Impact of mass media reports on 'pharmaceuticals' on patients: A questionnaire survey targeting an internet panel and pharmacy visitors"

Awarding Body: Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences

2025/06/03

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Kenji Kono

Recipient of the "FY2024 Information Processing Society of Japan Fellow"

Reason: For contributions to research on system software, particularly virtualization

Awarding Body: Information Processing Society of Japan

2025/06/11

Graduate School of Media Design (KMD)

Professor Hideki Sunahara

Recipient of the "FY2025 Information and Communications Month Promotion Council Chairman's Commendation: Information and Communications Merit Award"

Reason: For long-standing engagement in research on computer architecture, the Internet, and sensor networks, contributing to the development and dissemination of information and communication technology, as well as leading many security human resource development programs and making significant contributions to strengthening Japan's cybersecurity

Awarding Body: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

2025/06/02

Graduate School of Business Administration

Associate Professor Shuhei Inada

Recipient of the "Japan Industrial Management Association FY2024 Society Award"

Reason: Recognized for particularly outstanding achievements in basic and applied research in industrial management and the advancement of technology

Awarding Body: Japan Industrial Management Association

2025/06/01

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Yasuaki Einaga

Recipient of the "36th Mukai Award"

Reason: For achievements in "Functional development and application expansion of diamond electrodes"

Awarding Body: Tokyo Ohka Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Technology

2025/05/26

Faculty of Pharmacy

Assistant Professor Yuki Igarashi

Recipient of the "Japanese Society of Chemotherapy Young Challenger Award 2025"

Reason: For the construction of in vivo pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics evaluation methods in combination therapy of β-lactam drugs/β-lactamase inhibitors

Awarding Body: Japanese Society of Chemotherapy

2025/05/09

Graduate School of Business Administration

Professor Qinghong Liu

Recipient of the "Association of Environmental Management and Sustainability 2024 Society Award (Academic Contribution Award)"

Reason: For the book "Integrated Strategy: Total Value Chain Discussed through the 'Ethical Person' Model"

Awarding Body: Association of Environmental Management and Sustainability

2025/05/24

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Tsuyoshi Yokomori, et al.

Recipient of the "The 14th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (ASPACC 2023), Best Paper Award"

Reason: For the paper "Unsteady extinction of ammonia premixed flames against an isothermal wall"

Awarding Body: The 14th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (ASPACC 2023)

2025/05/21

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Emeritus Kazuyuki Shizawa

Recipient of the "Japan Society for Technology of Plasticity FY2025 Distinguished Service Award"

Reason: For contributions to the development of plasticity and society activities

Awarding Body: Japan Society for Technology of Plasticity

2025/05/14

Faculty of Environment and Information Studies

Professor Yasushi Watanabe

Elected as "International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences"

Reason: Commendation for socio-anthropological considerations regarding contemporary American society

Elected by: American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2025/04/23

Faculty of Science and Technology

Associate Professor Takashi Mori

Recipient of the "American Physical Society Outstanding Referee"

Reason: Recognized as an outstanding referee for the academic journals of the American Physical Society

Awarding Body: American Physical Society

2025/04/04

Faculty of Science and Technology

Associate Professor Eiji Yamamoto

Recipient of the "FY2025 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: The Young Scientists' Award"

Reason: For achievements in research on biomolecular behavior through molecular dynamics calculations

Awarding Body: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

2025/04/15

Faculty of Science and Technology

Associate Professor Yuta Sugiura

Recipient of the "FY2025 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: The Young Scientists' Award"

Reason: For achievements in research on comprehensive interaction technology foundations supporting ambient intelligence

Awarding Body: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

2025/04/15

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Genya Ishigami, et al.

Recipient of the "FY2025 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Prizes for Science and Technology (Science and Technology Promotion Category)"

Reason: For contributions to international space exploration through observation of granular material behavior in low-gravity environments

Awarding Body: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

2025/04/15

Graduate School of System Design and Management

Professor Naohiko Kohtake, Project Assistant Professor Akihiko Nishino

Recipient of the "FY2025 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Prizes for Science and Technology (Public Understanding Promotion Category)"

Reason: For achievements in promoting understanding among elementary and junior high school students regarding social problem-solving using science and technology

Awarding Body: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

2025/04/15

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Atsushi Nakajima

Recipient of the "77th Chemical Society of Japan Award"

Reason: For functional surface chemistry through precision loading of nanoclusters

Awarding Body: Chemical Society of Japan

2025/03/27

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Hideki Tanemura, et al.

Recipient of the "2025 JMSJ Best Paper Award"

Reason: For the paper "Stochastic differential equations for infinite particle systems of jump type with long range interactions"

Awarding Body: Mathematical Society of Japan

2025/03/19

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Masato Kurihara, et al.

Recipient of the "2025 JMSJ Best Paper Award"

Reason: For the paper "On derivatives of Kato's Euler system for elliptic curves"

Awarding Body: Mathematical Society of Japan

2025/03/19

Faculty of Science and Technology

Associate Professor Hiroya Narumi

Recipient of the "FY2024 Microsoft Informatics Research Award"

Reason: For "Research on digital fabrication inspired by origami"

Awarding Body: Information Processing Society of Japan

2025/03/14

Faculty of Law

Professor Morihide Katayama

Recipient of the "FY2024 (75th) Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art Encouragement Prize"

Reason: For the book "Dairaku Hitsui: My Biography of Akira Ifukube"

Awarding Body: Agency for Cultural Affairs

2025/03/11

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Takasumi Tanabe

Recipient of the "Optica Fellow"

Reason: For groundbreaking contributions to nanophotonics and nonlinear optics in high-Q microresonators, as well as active contributions to the optics community

Awarding Body: Optica

2025/01/30