Friends of ICU Academic Awards AY2011-2015 Awardees

AY2011 Awardees

Maurice & Arvilla 'Billie' Troyer Prize in Education

ASHIDA, Kana

Arriving at Healing and Happiness through a Holistic Approach to Sex Education

Akira Takayama Prize in Economics

ARAI, Kazuto

Democracy and Economic Growth: Analysis of Neoclassical Growth Model with Political Institution

KAWAGOE, Yosuke

Survey on North-South Trade: Its Effects on the Welfare of Developing Economies

TANAI, Mikako

Economic Growth under Declining and Aging of Population: Potential of Industrial Agglomeration and City Network

Academic Award for Vietnamese Studies

NGUYEN, Thi Hien

New Keynesian Model Estimation and Some Implications to Monetary Policy for Fighting Inflation in Vietnam

Kiyoko Cho Academic Award in Asian Studies

STANISLAUS, WARREN A.

Tales of Old and New Japan : Nineteenth Century Britain and Japan's Encounter with Civilization Through the Eyes of Charles Wirgman

TANAKA, Moegi

The Power of Community and Death: Social Education and "Compulsory Group Suicide" in the Battle of Okinawa

Koya Azumi Award in Sociology

YAMABE, Atsuko

Formation of Intimate Sphere in Organic Farming Movement: A Case Study of WWOOF

ICU Undergraduate Science Award

YAMAMOTO, Hikaru

Adsorption Structure of 1,3- Butadiene on Pd(100) and Oxidized Pd(100) Surfaces

ICU Undergraduate Science Award

SHINO, Mebae

The Chloride Ion Analysis of Ancient Salt Making Pottery: Comparing Japanese and European Pottery

MERA, Hanaka

Analysis of Genomic Integrity in Thermus Thermophiles -Establishement of a Homologous Recombination Detection System-

Gödel Foundation Prize

FUJINUMA, Yoshinari

Algorithms for Fault-Tolerant Packet Routing on Hypercube Networks

NAGASHIMA, Hiroshi

Grothendieck-Pt k Theorem

AY2012 Awardees

Makoto Saito Academic Award in Peace Studies

MIKAMI, Asuka

The Crystallization of "the Responsibility to Protect" into a Legal Norm: Based on the UN Security Council Resolutions After the World Summit in 2005

Maurice & Arvilla 'Billie’Troyer Prize in Education

KAYANO, Fuka

Socialization Experience by the Free School Graduates: A "Society" for the Formal School Drop-outs

Akira Takayama Prize in Economics

ITO, Yu

The Marketing Strategies of Independent Small and Medium Bookstore─ From the view of Service-Dominant Logic ─

KISHIDA, Naoya

Empirical Analysis on the Effectiveness of "Non-Standard Monetary Policy" in the Euro Area with an SVAR Model

MASUDA, Taku

An Estimation of Structural Change in Japanese Calling Market 2002 - 2009

Kiyoko Cho Academic Award in Asian Studies

MINATO, Shuta

Historical Thought of Tominaga Nakamoto

NATORI, Kaho

Sports Nationalism in the Hakone Ekiden: The Invention of "aneseness"

Koya Azumi Award in Sociology

TAMAMURA, Haruka

Disaster Volunteers in Japan During the Livelihood Reconstruction Phase: Role Conflicts and Motivation to Continue

Fumiko Koide Academic Award in Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language

YAMAMOTO, Tsumugi

The Effective Method for the Training of Writing Essay in Japanese for the Entrance Examination for the Public High Schools in Tokyo

Masa's Peacemaking Award

TRELUT, Yumi Manon

Beyond Republican Assimilation? The Political Struggles of French Citizens of North African Descent

ICU Undergraduate Science Award

KAWAGUCHI, Kohei

DHR78 and Samuel regulate spermatogonial cell proliferation in Drosophila spermatogenesis

YOSHIMOTO, Takashi

Platinum Metal Complexes with Chalcogen-Alkene Ligands: Synthesis, Analysis, and Dynamic Behavior of Complexes with Alkenyl Thioether Ligands

Gödel Foundation Prize

MINEGISHI, Kazushiro

The Implementation and Evaluation of SNP Matching Method with Privacy-preserving Function in Outsourced Database

AY2012 Awardees

Maurice & Arvilla ‘Billie’ Troyer Prize in Education

YAMADA, Tetsuya

Study on Factors Preventing Dalits from Learning: A Case Study of the Gaikhur Village, Gorkha

Akira Takayama Prize in Economics

ESAKI, Yuto

Relations between Firm Performance and Internationali-zation for Japanese Firms

KUBO, Hisashi

The Effect of a Waste-Incineration Plant on Land Price

SUGIE, Ikumi

Economic evaluation for a community based museum: The case of Hachiro Yuasa Memorial Museum

Academic Award for Vietnamese Studies

KOMATSUBARA, Kaho

The Necessity and Problems of Educational Assistance for Disabled Students in Vietnam: A Study on Projects by Japanese NPOs

Kiyoko Cho Academic Award in Asian Studies

SOENO, Yufu

The Individual facing up to the Japanese-Chinese War and the Asia-Pacific War -Hino Ashihei’s wars and defeat, the writer searching for the “truth”-

Koya Azumi Award in Sociology

KONDO, Maika

The Meanings Attached to the Green Sea Turtles in Ogasawara Island: Based on the Qualitative Study of the Interactions between People and Sea Turtles

ICU Undergraduate Science Award

AOKI, Misa

Abundance Analysis of Neutron-capture Elements of Metal-poor Stars

Gödel Foundation Prize

TOKUTA, Yuya

Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions of the Heat Equation and the Gagliardo-Nirenberg Inequality

AY2014 Awardees

Makoto Saito Academic Award in Peace Studies

KOBAYASHI, Takuto

Conscience and Civil Disobedience: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Political Philosophy of Nonviolent Collective Resistance

Maurice & Arvilla ‘Billie’Troyer Prize in Education

ISO, Eriko

Child Poverty and Public Education: A Case Study of Public Junior High Schools in Adachi

Akira Takayama Prize in Economics

NAKANO, Akane

A Discussion of the Wage-differential in Part-time Job －An Empirical Analysis of the Compensating Wage Differential Hypothesis－

TAKEDA, Kengo

Accountancy on the Level of Everyday Consciousness

SERIZAWA, Takuya

An Analysis of the Effect of Rice Field Intensification on Yieldability －Case of Yoshino, Kawagoe City, Saitama Pref.－

Tatsuro Kunugi Academic Award in Studies of Global Governance

N. KING, Ariana N.

Media on Media: Truth, Bias, Accountability, and Global Media Ethics

Kiyoko Cho Academic Award in Asian Studies

NOMOTO, Naoko

‘Diligence’ in Historical Perspective: On the History and Thought of Self-Help and its Japanese Translation, Saigoku Risshihen

Koya Azumi Award in Sociology

KIMURA, Takumi

The Roles of Experts and Lay People in Their Cooperation: A Case Study of Mishima-Numazu Movement Against the Plan of Petrochemical Complex Construction

ICU　Graduate Science Award

AIHARA, Reiko

Analysis of Genomic Integrity in Thermus thermophilus　-The Roles of Endonuclease IV (Nfo)-

ICU Undergraduate Science Award

TAKAHASHI, Kei

Effects of Night-Break, Field Conditions, and Population Density on Flowering Time of Arabidopsis thaliana

KURIHARA, Kohei

Synthesis of an Alkynyl-Substituted Silole

AY2015 Awardees

Makoto Saito Academic Award in Peace Studies

SATO, Nao

The Unarmed Permanent Neutrality: A Security System Based on Article 9 of the Constitution

Makoto Saito Academic Award in American Studies

HAYAMA, Jena Y.

Ancient Hula's Journey to Japan: A Study of Social Meanings in a Transnational Hawaiian Tradition

Maurice & Arvilla‘Billie’Troyer Prize in Education

MATSUDA, YUKI

The Effect of the Information Processing Strategy Caused by Different Mood States on Attitude Modification Through Processing of Advertisements Including Scarcity Information

HAGINO, MIO

The Meaning of “Educational” in Japanese TV Programs: Based on the Content Analysis of “TV Programs for Young People” and the Survey of University Students

Akira Takayama Prize in Economics

HANADA, Reina

An empirical analysis of tax audit focus on international transfer pricing: Evidence from Japan’s National Tax Agency and the Japanese major companies

KIKUMORI, Tomomi

An Analysis of the Effect of Seismic Risks on Housing Rents

SAITO, Kazuki

銀行持株会社方式の経営統合と効率性の関係：日本の地域銀行における実証分析

Kiyoko Cho Academic Award in Asian Studies

UTSUMI, Akiko

"Momotarō" in Colonial Studies by Nitobe Inazō: Rethinking Narratives of "Civilization and Barbarism"

ICU　Graduate Science Award

AOKI, Misa

The Origin of Neutron-Capture Elements Examined from Spectral Analysis of Very Metal-Poor Stars in Our Galactic Halo

NISHIMURA, Miki

Study on the Genome Protection Mechanisms in Thermus thermophilus　-Expression Mechanism of the Photolyase and Functional Analysis of the Pyrophosphatase Ham1-

ICU Undergraduate Science Award

KUROKI, Ken

Studies on genetic mutations that inverse photoperiodic flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana

Rainbow Award in Gender and Sexuality Studies

HIGUCHI, Yuya

Various Phases of BL/Yaoi Critique in Japan