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
KAWAGOE, Yosuke |
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.
TANAKA, Moegi |
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 |
ISHINO, Mebae
MERA, Hanaka |
Gödel Foundation Prize |
FUJINUMA, Yoshinari
NAGASHIMA, Hiroshi |
※ No awardee
Makoto Saito Academic Award in Peace Studies
Makoto Saito Academic Award in American Studies
Tatsuro Kunugi Academic Award in Studies of Global Governance
Fumiko Koide Academic Award in Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language
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.
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
MASUDA, Taku |
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 |
The Implementation and Evaluation of SNP Matching Method with Privacy-preserving Function in Outsourced Database |
* No awardee
Makoto Saito Academic Award in American Studies
Tatsuro Kunugi Academic Award in Studies of Global Governance
Academic Award for Vietnamese Studies
ICU Graduate Science Award
AY2013 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 |
※ No awardee
Makoto Saito Academic Award in Peace Studies
Makoto Saito Academic Award in American Studies
Tatsuro Kunugi Academic Award in Studies of Global Governance
Fumiko Koide Academic Award in Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language
」ICU Graduate Science Award
Masa's Peacemaking Award
Rainbow Award in Gender and Sexuality Studies
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 |
※Tatsuro Kunugi Academic Award in Studies of Global Governance was given to one student in June 2014.
※There is no recipient for the following awards for the year 2014.
Makoto Saito Academic Award in American Studies
Academic Award for Vietnamese Studies
Fumiko Koide Academic Award in Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language
Masa's Peacemaking Award
Rainbow Award in Gender and Sexuality Studies
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 The Effect of Bank Holding Company Affiliation on Efficiency: Empirical Analysis of Japanese Regional Banks |
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 |
※There is no recipient for the following awards for the year 2015.
Makoto Saito Academic Award in American Studies
Academic Award for Vietnamese Studies
Koya Azumi Award in Sociology
Fumiko Koide Academic Award in Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language
Masa's Peacemaking Award
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 |
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 |
Akira Takayama Prize in Economics |
ARAI, Kazuto
KAWAGOE, Yosuke |
Kiyoko Cho Academic Award in Asian Studies |
STANISLAUS, WARREN A.
TANAKA, Moegi |
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 |
ICU Undergraduate Science Award |
ISHINO, Mebae
MERA, Hanaka |