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Awarded Prizes

Professor Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) has received the ‘3rd Japan Society for Phenorosa Studies, Special Achievement Award (Bigelow Award)’.

Professor Masahiko TOGAWA has received the ‘3rd Japan Society for Phenorosa Studies Special Achievement Award (Bigelow Prize)’ for his publication, Okakura Tenshin (Kakuzo) and India: Mystery for ‘Asia is One’ (Keio University Press, April 2023). The awarding ceremony was held at Waseda University on September 21th, 2024. For more details, please see here. (only available in Japanese text)


Professor Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA) was awarded the 61st Annual Translation Award from the Japan Society of Translators.

Prof. Izumi HOSHI was awarded the 61st Annual Translation Award from the Japan Society of Translators, for her publication, 『花と夢』(ツェリン・ヤンキー著, 春秋社, 2024年). The awarding ceremony will be held at GakushiKaikan on October 25th, 2024. For details, please see here (only available in Japanese text).


Professor Emeritus Hikoichi YAJIMA received the Foreign Minister’s Commendations for FY 2024.

Ex-ILCAA staff Hikoichi YAJIMA, professor emeritus at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies received the Foreign Minister’s Commendations for FY 2024. The Commendations are awarded to individuals and groups with outstanding achievements in international fields, to acknowledge their contributions to the promotion of friendship between Japan and other countries and areas. The Commendations also aim to promote the understanding and support of the Japanese public for the activities of the recipients. Prof. YAJIMA is awarded the Commendation for his promotion of academic exchange through the history of Islam.
The ceremony will be held at the Iikura Guest House of MOFA on August 8, 2024.
Press Release by MOFA


Assistant Professor Ran MURATSU (ILCAA) won the 36th Young Researcher Prize of the Japan Association for African Studies.

Assistant Professor Ran MURATSU won the 36th Young Researcher Prize of the Japan Association for African Studies for her publication, Demons of the Gulf of Guinea: Ethnography of Affect and Possession in Christian New Religions (『ギニア湾の悪魔―キリスト教系新宗教をめぐる情動と憑依の民族誌』published by Sekai Shisosha in January 2023).
This award recognizes outstanding works from research papers or books related to the African region, published by regular members under the age of 40 over the past two years. The award ceremony was held on Saturday, May 18, 2024, at the 61st Annual Conference of the Japan Association for African Studies at Osaka University. For the reasons for the award, please see the website of the Japan Association for African Studies website. (Only available in Japanese)


Assistant Professor Ran MURATSU (ILCAA) won the 19th International Institute for the Study of Religions Award from the International Institute for the Study of Religions.

Assistant Professor Ran MURATSU won the 19th International Institute for Religious Studies Award for her publication, Demons of the Gulf of Guinea: Ethnography of Affect and Possession in Christian New Religions (written in Japanese, the Japanese title is『ギニア湾の悪魔―キリスト教系新宗教をめぐる情動と憑依の民族誌』 published by Sekaishisosha in January 2023), received the 19th International Institute for Religious Studies Award. This prize is awarded to a publication or doctoral dissertation of outstanding “modernity,” “internationality,” and “substantiation,” with the aim of promoting the study of religion based on contemporary issues and contributing to the development of young scholars.

The award ceremony took place at the 70th Anniversary Symposium of the International Institute for Religious Studies, held at the University of Tokyo on February 17, 2024. For the reasons for the award, please see the website of International Institute for Religious Studies. (Only available in Japanese)


Professor Shintaro ARAKAWA, Mr. Kaito OSAWA and Ms. Xicheng YANG won the award of New York Type Directors Club 69.

Under the direction of Professor Shintaro ARAKAWA, a Tangut font named AraTangut, designed by Kaito OSAWA, a typeface designer, and Xicheng YANG, PhD candidate at the University of Reading, UK, received an award at New York TDC 69 (Type Directors Club) on April 26th, 2023. This accolade is granted to creators who make significant contributions to Typography.


Research Fellow Shiho Ebihara (ILCAA) was awarded the 2023 Hiratsuka Raiteu Prize.

Research Fellow Shiho EBIHARA (ILCAA) was awarded the 2023 Hiratsuka Raiteu Prize (Special), for her publication and introduction of Tibetan women's poetry and the study on its historical development. The award ceremony was held at Japan Women's University on December 9, 2023.
For details, please see here (only available in Japanese).



Dr. Ryo MIZUKAMI (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 45th (2023) Award for Young Researchers from the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan

Dr. Ryo MIZUKAMI (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 45th (2023) Award for Young Researchers from the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan. This award aimed to encourage younger researchers and promote their research in the field of Oriental Studies in Japan. His article, published in Orient vol.58 (2023), “Interconfessional Dialogue on Faḍāʾil of the Twelve Imams: Rethinking the Confessional Boundary between Sunnism and Shiʿism in Medieval and Early Modern” was the reason for this award. The award ceremony was held on October 28, 2023, at Osaka University. For details, please see here. (Only available in Japanese)


Research Fellow Shiho Ebihara (ILCAA) was awarded the 2023 Special Translation Award from Japan Society of Translators (JST).

Dr. Shiho Ebihara (ILCAA Research Fellow) was awarded the 2023 Special Translation Award from the Japan Society of Translators (JST), for her publication, Tibetan Women’s Poetry Anthology (Edited and translated by Shiho Ebihara, Dandansha publisher, 2023) . The awarding ceremony will be held at GakushiKaikan on October 26th, 2023. For details, please see here (only available in Japanese text).


Assistant Professor Taichi KURONUMA was awarded with the 5th Kawamata Memorial Research Encouragement Award from the Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology.

Assistant Professor Taichi KURONUMA was awarded the 5th Kawamata Memorial Research Encouragement Award from The Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology.
The purpose of this award is to award the research about the archaeology and relevant studies concerning the West Asia including Egypt and neighbouring regions. The award recipient is selected from the author of a paper in the Journal of West Asian Archaeology and/or of an oral or poster paper in the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology in the fiscal year before the award granted. In this year, the paper titled ‘Regional Differences in Mortuary Practices during the Wādī Sūq Period in Southeast Arabia: Tomb Morphology and Geographical Conditions in the First Half of the Second Millennium BCE’ was awarded. The award ceremony was held at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology on June 25, 2023, in Hakuho University.

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Assistant Professor Ran MURATSU won the 18th Encouragement Award of The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology from the Japanese Society for Cultural Anthropology

Assistant Professor Ran MURATSU (ILCAA) won the 18th Encouragement Award of The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology from the Japanese Society for Cultural Anthropology (JASCA) for her paper “Demons Listen Too: Imagination and Affect in Spirit Possessions at a Pentecostal-Charismatic Church in Southern Benin” published in Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology Vol.86(4), 2022.
The Encouragement Award of The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology is given to outstanding research papers by young researchers from among the papers in Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology and/or Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology published during the previous fiscal year.
The award ceremony took place on June 4, 2023, at the 57th Annual Conference of JASCA held at the Prefectural University of Hiroshima.

For details, please see here. (Only available in Japanese)


Dr. Yohei KONDO (the former Research Associate at ILCAA/Associate Professor at the Fukuoka Women’s University) won the 9th Encouragement Award of the Japan Association for Middle East Studies.

Dr. Yohei KONDO (the former Research Associate at ILCAA/Associate Professor at the Fukuoka Women’s University) won the 9th Encouragement Award of the Japan Association for Middle East Studies for his paper “Survival Strategies of Religious Minority Groups in Oman” published in Yohei Kondo (ed.), Survival Strategies of Minorities in the Middle East: Studies on Religious and Politico-Social Minority Groups in Middle Eastern Societies (Fuchu: ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2021). This book is published as the result of the ILCAA Joint Research Project (held at JaCMES) “Studies on Religious and Politico-Social Minority Groups in Middle Eastern Societies (jrp000227).
The award ceremony was held at the 39th Meeting of the Japan Association for Middle East Studies at Tsukuba University on May 13th, 2023.


Dr. Yuko URABE (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 2022 Best Paper Award from the Society for Japanese Linguistics.

Dr. Yuko URABE (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 2022 Best Paper Award from the Society for Japanese Linguistics for her paper “A Cross-Dialectal Study of Reduplicated Adjectives in the Ryukyuan Languages: Special Focus on Attributive and Predicative Functions” published in Studies in the Japanese Language Vol.18(1), 2022. The Best Paper Award of the Society for Japanese Linguistics is given to outstanding research papers by young researchers from among the papers in Studies in the Japanese Language published during the current fiscal year. For details, please see here. (Only available in Japanese)


Dr. Emiko OGAWA (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 16th SUMISEI Encouragement Award for Women Researchers

Dr. Emiko OGAWA (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 16th SUMISEI Encouragement Award for Women Researchers. This award is given to female researchers who are making an effort to balance childcare with research activities in the humanities and social sciences. For details, please see here(only available in Japanese text).


Assistant Professor Mayumi ADACHI won the Shinmura Izuru Research Encouragement Prize FY2022

Assistant Professor Mayumi ADACHI (ILCAA) won the Shinmura Izuru Research Encouragement Prize FY 2022 for her research on spatial and discourse deixis in Vietnamese, and sociolinguistic study of the Vietnamese community in Japan.

This prize is awarded for promising research in general linguistics, Japanese linguistics, and related fields. The award ceremony is scheduled at Kyoto Garden Palace on November 23, 2022. For details, please see here (only available in Japanese text).


The presentation by Prof. Izumi HOSHI and others was selected as one of the best presentations recommended by the chairperson at the 1st Digital Archive Forum of the Japan Society for Digital Archive.

The presentation by Prof., Ph.D. Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA) and others was selected as one of the best presentations recommended by the chairperson at the 1st Digital Archive Forum of the Japan Society for Digital Archive for their presentation “Constructing a Database for the Study of Tibeto-Himalayan Pastoral and Agricultural Resources”. The review appears in Volume 6, Issue 2 of the Journal of the Japan Society for Digital Archive.


Associate Prof. Hiroki ISHIKAWA won the Best Presentation Award at the 31th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies.

Associate Prof., Ph.D. Hiroki ISHIKAWA (ILCAA) won the Best Presentation Award at the 31th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies for his presentation “Side Dishes in Northern Ethiopia during the 16th and 19th Centuries” with the other two presentations.


Professor Norihiro Naganawa received the 18th Japan Academy Medal.

Professor Norihiro NAGANAWA (ILCAA, Slavic Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University) was awarded the 18th Japan Academy Medal.

The following research achievements were awarded:
Prof. NAGANAWA: Explorations in Entanglements of Russia's Empire and the Muslim World

The Japan Academy Medal was established in 2004 as the most prestigious academic award with the aim of honouring young researchers and encouraging their future research. Please see the link for the reasons for the Medal.


Assistant Professor Wakako KUMAKURA (ILCAA) and Professor Norihiro NAGANAWA (ILCAA, Slavic Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University) were awarded the 18th Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize.

The following research achievements were awarded:
Prof. KUMAKURA: Nile Irrigation and Land System in the Transition Period from Medieval to Early Modern Egypt
Prof. NAGANAWA: Explorations in Entanglements of Russia's Empire and the Muslim World

The JSPS Prize was established by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) with the aim of honouring young researchers with creativity and outstanding research ability from an early stage, motivating them to conduct research, and supporting the development of their research in order to develop the level of academic research in Japan at the top level of the world.
The award ceremony is scheduled to take place at the Japan Academy on Feb. 3, 2022.


Professor Emeritus Junzo KAWADA received the Order of Culture.

Ex-ILCAA staff Junzo KAWADA, professor emeritus at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies received the Order of Culture. The order is awarded for contributions to Japan's art, literature, science, technology, or anything related to culture in general.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude for the achievements of many years.


Assistant Professor Wakako KUMAKURA won the Herend Prize of the Collegium Mediterranistarum in 2020.

Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Wakako KUMAKURA (ILCAA) won the Herend Prize, the 2020AY Award from the Collegium Mediterranistarum for her publication, Nile Irrigation and the Land System in Medieval Egypt (written in Japanese, 2019, University of Tokyo Press). The Herend Prize is awarded for outstanding works and research on Mediterranean cultural studies.


Dr. Seitaro NAMBA (IDE-JETRO/ex-ILCAA Junior Research Fellow)’s doctoral dissertation was selected for the commendation of the 20th Asia Pacific Research Prize (Iue Prize).

Dr. Seitaro NAMBA (Researcher at the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO)/ex-ILCAA Junior Research Fellow)’s doctoral dissertation was selected for the commendation of the 20th Asia Pacific Research Prize (Iue Prize). His doctoral dissertation, “The Conflict between Socialism and Neutralism in Laos: The Liberated Zone's Plurality in the Most Peripheral Area of the Socialist Camp during the Détente Era (1945-1975)”, was submitted to the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in October 2020 (Prof. Hirohide KURIHARA at ILCAA was his supervisor). This prize rewards outstanding dissertations written in the field of humanities or social sciences about the Asia Pacific region.


Dr. Susumu SATO (ILCAA Research Associate) won the 2021 Best Paper Award of the Japan Society for Urbanology.

Dr. Susumu SATO (ILCAA Research Associate) won the 2021 Best Paper Award of the Japan Society for Urbanology by his paper “ Spatial Structure of Completed Fertility in Metropolitan Suburb: A Case Study of Kawasaki City”. This award is presented to authors under the age of 39 who have made an outstanding contribution to the progress and development of urban research in the academic journals published by the Annual Report of the Japan Society for Urbanology and regional society for urbanology (Hokkaido Society for Urbanology, Tohoku Society for Urbanology, Kanto Society for Urbanology, Chubu Society for Urbanology Kinki Society for Urbanology, Chushikoku Society for Urbanology, Kyushu Society for Urbanology) in 2019. The awarding ceremony will be held on October 23, 2021 at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Urbanology (online).


Dr. Reiko OTSUBO (ILCAA Research Fellow) and Professor Emeritus Jun’ichi ODA (ILCAA Research Fellow) won the JSAI Incentive Award of 2020AY.

Dr. Reiko OTSUBO (ILCAA Research Fellow) and Professor Emeritus Jun’ichi ODA (ILCAA Research Fellow) won the 2020AY Incentive Award of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence by their paper, “Ontology Construction for Khat (Catha edulis).” The awarding ceremony will be held on June 21st, 2021 at the Tokyo Waterfront, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).


Dr. Yui KANDA (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 27th Grand Prize of the Kajima Foundation for the Arts

Dr. Yui KANDA (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 27th Grand Prize of the Kajima Foundation for the Arts by her paper, “A Newly-found Candlestick endowed to the Mausoleum of Imam Musa al-Kazim, Kazimayn. The prize is the most authoritative in the field of art studies in Japan. The awarding ceremony will be held on May 20, 2021.

Associate Prof. Hiroki ISHIKAWA won the Best Presentation Award at the 30th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies

Associate Prof., Ph.D. Hiroki ISHIKAWA (ILCAA) won the Best Presentation Award at the 30th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies for his presentation “On the Change of Importance of Teff in Northern Ethiopia during the 16th and 18th Centuries.”


Associate Prof. Hiroki ISHIKAWA won the Best Presentation Award at the 30th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies

Associate Prof., Ph.D. Hiroki ISHIKAWA (ILCAA) won the Best Presentation Award at the 30th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies for his presentation “On the Change of Importance of Teff in Northern Ethiopia during the 16th and 18th Centuries.”


Junior Research Fellow Shinya UEDA (ILCAA) was awarded the Prize of Southeast Asian Historical Studies in 2020

Junior Research Fellow Shinya UEDA (ILCAA) was awarded the Prize of Southeast Asian Historical Studies by the Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies on December 19th, 2020 for his publication, Politics and society in late premodern Vietnam (written in Japanese, 2019, Osaka University Press)


JSPS Research Fellow Mami GOTO (ILCAA) was awarded the Prize of Poster Presentation Awards for young researchers by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Construction of the Face-Body studies in transcultural conditions”

JSPS Research Fellow Mami GOTO (ILCAA) was awarded the Prize of Poster Presentation Awards for young researchers by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Construction of the Face-Body studies in transcultural conditions” by her presentation, “Generational Changes in the Traditional Dress of Qatari Women”


JSPS Research Fellow Akiko YOKOYAMA (ILCAA) was awarded 2020 Seizen Nakasone Research Encouragement Award

JSPS Research Fellow Akiko YOKOYAMA (ILCAA) was awarded 2020 Seizen Nakasone Research Encouragement Award by the Okinawa Center of Language Study on October 3rd, 2020.


Prof. Nobuaki KONDO has been selected as the winner of the foreign section in the 11th Farabi International Award for Humanities and Islamic Studies

Prof. Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) has been selected as the winner of the foreign section in the 11th Farabi International Award for Humanities and Islamic Studies which is affiliated to the ministry of Science, Research and Technology in Iran. The main subject of the Award is to recognize and introduce top research works in the humanities and Islamic studies. The online ceremony has been held on Monday, August 17.

On October 13, the awarding ceremony for Prof. Nobuaki KONDO, a winner of the 11th Farabi International Award for Humanities and Islamic Studies was held at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Japan. TUFS News (in Japanese)











Assistant Prof. Wakako Kumakura won the Toryusho, one of the 2020AY JCAS Awards.

Assistant Prof., Ph.D Wakako Kumakura (ILCAA) won the Toryusho, one of the 2020AY Awards from the Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS Awards) for her publication, Nile Irrigation and the Land System in Medieval Egypt (written in Japanese, 2019, University of Tokyo Press).
JCAS Awards aims to recognize outstanding study in the area studies. The Toryusho, one of the JCAS Awards is awarded to young outstanding researchers.




Prof. Atsushi Yamada (ILCAA Joint Researcher) was awarded the 2019AY special award of Hokkaido Ethnological Society for the descriptive study of Parauk Wa, especially for Parauk Wa published from ILCAA.


Prof. Atsushi Yamada (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Japan Health Care College) was awarded the 2019AY special award of Hokkaido Ethnological Society for his descriptive study of Parauk Wa in the Yunnan Province (China) especially including Parauk Wa published in 2020. The book Parauk Wa is the second volume of the series “Descriptive Grammars”, published first from ILCAA, through the project LingDy3, and subsequently published commercially from Kurosio Publishers. He also published Parauk Wa Folktales in 2007 and Memories of Suganli: Oral Traditions of the Wa in Yunnan Province, China in 2009 from ILCAA. This award aims to recognize outstanding study in the ethnological studies such as anthropology, descriptive linguistics, archeology, etc.



Dr. Keisuke Iwata (JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow/ILCAA) was awarded the Best Paper Award of the Society of Inner Asian Studies

Dr. Keisuke Iwata (JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow/ILCAA) was awarded the Best Paper Award of the Society of Inner Asian Studies for his paper "The Qing's Policy Concerning the League-Banner System for Qinghai Mongol: Based on Pasture Demarcation in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century" (Inner Asian Studies, vol.34: 73–94).
This award aims to recognize outstanding paper in the field of inner Asian history. The award ceremony was held at 2019 Annual meeting of the Society of Inner Asian Studies on November 9th, 2019 at Tohoku University.


Minami Ryukyu Miyako go Irabujima Hougen (The Irabu Dialect, a Southern Ryukyuan Language) was awarded the 47th Kindaichi Memorial Prize


Minami Ryukyu Miyako go Irabujima Hougen (The Irabu Dialect, a Southern Ryukyuan Language) by Michinori Shimoji (Kyushu University, ILCAA Joint Researcher, ex-Research Associate of LingDy) was awarded the 47th Kindaichi Memorial Prize.
It is the first volume of the series "Descriptive Grammars", published first from ILCAA, through the project LingDy, and subsequently published commercially from Kurosio Publishers.
Kindaichi Memorial Prize is awarded once a year to outstanding research and achievements in linguistics and related studies by the Kindaichi Memorial Prize Committee since 1973.


Assistant Professor Keita Kurabe was awarded with the Best Paper Award of the Linguistic Society of Japan (2019)

Assistant Professor Keita Kurabe was awarded with the Best Paper Award of the Linguistic Society of Japan (2019) for his paper “Deaspiration and the Laryngeal Specification of Fricatives in Jinghpaw”. (Please refer to the Linguistic Society of Japan's website)
The purpose of this award is to support outstanding papers. The award ceremony will be held at the 159th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan on November 17th, 2019, at Nagoya Gakuin University.


Dr. Hermann Gundert Endowment Award for Japanese-Malayalam Dictionary

The Dr. Hermann Gundert Endowment Award 2018-2019 was presented to Dr. K.P.P. Nambiar for his work entitled Japanese-Malayalam Dictionary on June 20 2019 by the Dravidian Linguistic Association of India, at the occasion of the 47th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists (AICDL) held at the Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga, India. This award is for the Best Dictionary in Dravidian Languages.
Japanese-Malayalam Dictionary authored by Dr. Nambiar and published by the State Institute of Languages (Government of Kerala) in March 2019 is a book format version of the Electronic Japanese-Malayalam Dictionary developed by the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) under the direction of Professors Jun Takashima and Makoto Minegishi. This dictionary with more than 53,000 headwords containing modern vocabulay is the first full-fledged dictionary from Japanese to one of the major Dravidian languages, will be of great help for both Malayali and Japanese People to study each other’s language.

https://www.aa-ken.jp/edic/jmd/














Research Associate Hayato Aoi was awarded with the Best Presentation Award of the 157th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan


Photo by The Linguistic Society of Japan

Research Associate Hayato Aoi received the Best Presentation Award of the 157th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan for his presentation, “Plosives in Okinawa-Ie Ryukyuan”.
The purpose of this award is to support outstanding presentations and poster sessions. The Linguistic Society of Japan held an award ceremony at the 158th meeting on June 23, 2019 in Hitotsubashi University.


Associate Professor Norikazu Kogura wins the 46th Kindaichi Memorial Prize

Associate Professor, Norikazu Kogura, has been awarded the 46th Kindaichi Memorial Prize for his book “A study on the modality system in Sibe”.
This award aims to recognize outstanding research and achievements in the fields of language and culture, and has been awarded once a year by the Kindaichi Memorial Prize Committee since 1973.

The award ceremony was held on December 16, 2018.








Assistant Professor Keita Kurabe was awarded with the Best Presentation Award of the 156th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan

Assistant Professor Keita Kurabe received the Best Presentation Award of the 156th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan for his presentation, “The syllabicity of the word-initial nasal in Jinghpaw”.
The purpose of this award is to support outstanding presentations and poster sessions.
The Linguistic Society of Japan held an award ceremony at the 157th meeting on November 18, 2018 in Kyoto University.



Research Associate Hayato Aoi was awarded with Nakasone Seizen kenkyu shorei sho (Nakasone Seizen Research Encouragement Award) in the fiscal year 2018

Research Associate Hayato Aoi received Nakasone Seizen kenkyu shorei sho (Nakasone Seizen Research Encouragement Award) in the fiscal year 2018.
Okinawa Center of Language Study awards it with the purpose of training young Ryukyuan language researchers.




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