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Josai Hosts 6th Annual Promotion of Asian-Pacific Women’s Studies Award Ceremony

The ceremony presenting this year’s Award for the Promotion of Asian-Pacific Women’s Studies was held at Josai International University’s Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies on the Kioicho campus on February 18, 2011. Selection of this year’s award, the 6th in the ten years since its foundation, proved to be a very difficult decision for the committee members who ultimately awarded two candidates.

The Chairman, Chancellor Noriko MIZUTA, gave a speech outlining the development of Josai International University’s Gender and Women’s Studies program, as well as the significance of the award and the expectations extended to its recipients.

This year’s top award was given to Jaok Kwon a COE scholar at Tohoku University for her study, “Expansion of the Women’s Sphere in Korean Agricultural Movements: Between Class and Gender in Democratic Movements, 1960-80,” with Noriko Kamiyama of the Center for Social Welfare named as the runner-up for “An Inquiry into the Women’s Protection Project and the Extinction of Feminism: Focusing on Women’s Lib.”

Fukuko Kobayashi, the spokesperson for the committee, observed that, “With the large number of impressive submissions this year, it’s my great pleasure to give the award to these two exceptional scholars. Given the immense promise of their dissertation topics, it is my hope that this award will act as a motivation for them to realize the completion of their projects.”

Guest speakers such as Christine Nakamura (Counselor, Canadian Embassy), Akira Maruyama (President, Saitama News Corporation), Yuichi Kashima (Managing Executive, Obayashi Corporation), Tomoyuki Susuki (Executive Director, Prince Takamado Memorial Foundation for Japan-Korea Exchange), and Kumiko Bando (Director, Lifelong Learning Policy Bureau for the Ministry of Education) also provided their congratulatory words, which seemed to deeply touch the awardees.

【Selection committee】

Chair Noriko Mizuta
(Chancellor, Honorary Chair of Josai International University’s Gender and Women‘s Studies Program)
Committee Members Fukuko Kobayashi(Professor, Waseda University)
Melissa McCormick(Professor, Harvard University)
Akiyo Uozumi(Professor, Chair of JIU’s Gender and Women’s Studies Program)
Yasuko Wachi(Professor, Supervising Fellow of JIU’s Gender and Women’s Studies Program)
Sachie Kitada(Professor, Supervising Fellow of JIU’s Gender and Women’s Studies Program)
Hiroko Hara(Professor, Fellow of JIU’s Gender and Women’s Studies Program)

The two award recipients

The two award recipients

 

Greetings from Ms. Kwon

Greetings from Ms. Kwon

Greetings from Ms. Kamiyama

Greetings from Ms. Kamiyama

 

Counselor Christine Nakamura of the Canadian Embassy gives her speech

Counselor Christine Nakamura of the Canadian Embassy gives her speech

MEXT Director Kumiko Bando delivers her speech

MEXT Director Kumiko Bando delivers her speech


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