Grants for Honors for Japan Culture Researchers Overseas
In partnership with the National Institutes for the Humanities, we support the International Prize for Japan Studies, which honors researchers who have madeachievements in the field of humanities related to Japan overseas.
The award recognizes researchers who have made significant contributions to the international development of Japan studies by making particularly outstanding academic achievements in the study of human cultures related to Japan, including philosophy, religion, thought, art, literature, language, history, folklore, society, and the environment, based overseas.
By evaluating and honoring the achievements of researchers studying Japan abroad, we are able to promote Japanese studies.
It also supports the achievement of mutual cultural understanding through academic understanding.
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Awards Received：
NIHU International Prize in Japanese Studies
（Affiliation and title are at the time of award.）
FY2019
Haruo Shirane
Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University
FY2020
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
FY2021
Jean-Noël Robert
Professor of Collège de France
FY2022
Josef Kreiner
Professor Emeritus of University of Bonn
Visiting Researcher of Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies
FY2023
SHIBATANI Masayoshi
Deedee McMurtry Chair Professor of Humanities and Professor of Linguistics Emeritus at Rice University
Professor Emeritus of Kobe University
FY2024
Carol Gluck
George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University
