In January 2019, the NIHU International Prize in Japanese Studies was newly established, with the support of the Kuraray Foundation, with the aim to promote the development of Japanese studies and deepen the understanding of Japanese culture internationally. The prize will be awarded to researchers based overseas who have shown outstanding achievement in Japan-related scholarship in literature, language, history, ethnology, folklore studies, the environment and other fields related to the human culture studies and have made great contributions to the international development of Japanese studies.

The NIHU International Prize in Japanese Studies 2019
The prize winner Dr. Haruo Shirane
Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University

The NIHU International Prize in Japanese Studies 2020
The prize winner Dr. Andrew Gordon
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard University
Professor of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies at Harvard University

The NIHU International Prize in Japanese Studies 2021
The prize winner Dr. Jean-Noël Robert
Professor of Collège de France

The NIHU International Prize in Japanese Studies 2022
The prize winner Dr. Josef Kreiner
Professor Emeritus of University of Bonn
Visiting Researcher of Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies

Information

・The NIHU International Prize in Japanese Studies 2023 Call for Nominations

・The Result of the NIHU International Prize in Japanese Studies 2022