Awarded Prizes

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.