Friends of ICU Academic Awards AY2008-2010 Awardees

AY2008 Awardees

Makoto Saito Academic Award in Peace Studies
MEGURO, Takayuki
Toward a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: The Possibilities of the Roles of Civil Society

Makoto Saito Academic Award in American Studies
AKIYAMA, Yuka
Diné Bizaad Náásgóó (Navajo Language and lts Future): Language Revitalization through Navajo-language Immersion Programs

Maurice & Arvilla 'Billie' Troyer Prize in Education
KUZUU, Chie
The Study in the Controversy on "the School of Chartres"

Akira Takayama Prize in Economics
FUKASU, Taiki
The Effect of an Import Goods Price Shock on the Japanese Phillips Curve: Its Empirical Research and Calibration by Using Gauss

Tatsuro Kunugi Academic Award in Studies of Global Governance
YANO, Emi
Timorese University Student Attitudes to Languages in Timor-Leste

Kiyoko Cho Academic Award in Asian Studies
ITO, Natsumi
THEIR "Tohoku", OUR "Tohogu": Production and Consumption of Images of "Tohoku"

Koya Azumi Award in Sociology
TOYAMA, Yoko
Christianity Education as Means to Form the "Spiritual Capital": Through Interview Research to Parents Having a Child at the Christianity Elementary School

Fumiko Koide Academic Award in Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language
HUANG, Chuanning
Recognition of Dokeigo : A Comparison of Chinese Learners of Japanese as a Second Language and Chinese-Japanese Bilinguals

ICU Graduate Science Award
KOZAKO, Noriyasu
On the Derived Category of Quasi-coherent Sheaves over an Algebraic Variety and Its Compact Generator

ICU Undergraduate Science Award
ISOMURA, Junko
Platinum Metal Complexes with Chalcogen -Alkene Ligands: Platinum Activity Moderated by Weak Intramolecular Alkene-Pt Interaction

Gödel Foundation Prize
FUJITA, Kensuke
On Fractals and Partial Differential Equations

※ No awardee
Academic Award for Vietnamese Studies
Masa's Peacemaking Award

※ If the thesis is in Japanese, the Japanese title comes first. If the thesis is in English or another foreign language, the order should be reversed.

※ If the thesis is in Japanese, the Japanese title comes first. If the thesis is in English or another foreign language, the order should be reversed.

 

AY2009 Award Winners

Makoto Saito Academic Award in Peace Studies
ONISHI, Yoko
The Ottawa Process: a Study on the NGOs' Participation in International Law-Making

Makoto Saito Academic Award in American Studies
AMANO, Yuri
1800 Revolution: the End of the Aristocracy in the Republic

Maurice & Arvilla 'Billie' Troyer Prize in Education
TOYODA, Manami
Effect of Adolescents' Self-Name Evaluation on their Self-Acceptance

Akira Takayama Prize in Economics
HASEGAWA, Makoto
Contagion and News: Time Series Analysis on the Transmission and the Cause of Financial Shock in 2008 and 2009
SAKAI, Yoko
Foreign Direct Investment and Intra-Industry Trade in the Philippines and East Asia

Akira Takayama Prize in Economics

HASEGAWA, Makoto
Contagion and News: Time Series Analysis on the Transmission and the Cause of Financial Shock in 2008 and 2009

SAKAI, Yoko
Foreign Direct Investment and Intra-Industry Trade in the Philippines and East Asia


Tatsuro Kunugi Academic Award in Studies of Global Governance
Anonymous
Gender Disparity, Natural Resource, and Structural Adjustment: the Overlooked Causes of Maternal Mortality in Nigeria

Kiyoko Cho Academic Award in Asian Studies
MORISAKI, Miki
An Approach to "Who the Kirishitan were" : Social Order and Popular Cults in Early Modern Japan

Koya Azumi Award in Sociology
WADA, Tomoyo
Swedish Welfare State and Solidarity
東京都・神奈川県における待機児童の要因分析:社会変化速度の地域不均一性の影響 Causal Analysis of Waitlisted Children in Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture: the Influence of the Uneven Rate of Social Change Based on District

ICU Undergraduate Science Award
NAGATOMO, Miki
An Analysis of Organochlorine Pesticide Residues in Human Breast Milk Samples Collected from Indonesia (Manado)

※ No awardee
Academic Award for Vietnamese Studies
」ICU Graduate Science Award
Masa's Peacemaking Award
Gödel Foundation Prize

※ If the thesis is in Japanese, the Japanese title comes first. If the thesis is in English or another foreign language, the order should be reversed.

 

AY2010 Award Winners

Makoto Saito Academic Award in Peace Studies
YAMADA, Yurie
UN Secretary-Generals' Political Authority: Their Impartiality and its Reality

Makoto Saito Academic Award in American Studies
HIGUCHI, Mariko
Editing British English: An Analysis of British and American English Usage in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone

Maurice & Arvilla 'Billie' Troyer Prize in Education
YAMATO, Yuki
A Comparative Study of Governmental Influences on History Education: Focusing on Curricula Treatment of WWII in Junior High Schools in Japan and Germany

Akira Takayama Prize in Economics

KUSUMI, Natsuko
The Discussion of Criticism against the Childcare Center which is managed by Economic Enterprise

SUNADA, Takeaki
An Analysis of the Effect of JA's Network Constriction on the Welfare of Passengers


Tatsuro Kunugi Academic Award in Studies of Global Governance
IWASAKI, Mayu
Millennium Development Goals: Achieving Universal Primary Education by 2015 ― Progress in South Africa and Keniya

Kiyoko Cho Academic Award in Asian Studies
TANAKA, Yuri
A Study of the Brahma Statue in the Sculptural Mandala in the Lecture Hall of Toji, Kyoto: Iconographic Innovations and their Significance.

Koya Azumi Award in Sociology
TAKE, Yukiko
Swedish Welfare State and Solidarity

Fumiko Koide Academic Award in Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language
KAWABATA, Miho
Function and Effect of Interaction during Writing ― Analysis of Student-Tutor Interaction at a High School Writing Center

ICU Undergraduate Science Award

KATO, Yuki
Analysis of Genomic Integrity in Thermus thermophilus ― Establishment of a Mutation Detection System

KAWAKAMI, Kotomi
Digital Generation of Phase Conjugate Light using CCD Array and Spatial Light Modulator for Ground-to-space Optical Energy Transmission

SUZUKI, Nozomu
Study of Chiroptical Properties of Polysilane Aggregates


※No awardee
Academic Award for Vietnamese Studies
」ICU Graduate Science Award
Masa's Peacemaking Award
Gödel Foundation Prize   

※ If the thesis is in Japanese, the Japanese title comes first. If the thesis is in English or another foreign language, the order should be reversed.

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