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

ISHINO, 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

 

※ 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
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
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
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

 

 

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

 

 

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
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-