Friends of ICU Academic Awards AY2017 Awardees

Makoto Saito Academic Award in Peace Studies
NAKAMURA, YUKA
Aiming at Policy Support for Informal Long-Term Care Work: A Comparative Study on Policies to Support Carers of Elderly People between Japan and the U.K.

Makoto Saito Academic Award in American Studies
NAKASHIMA, SAKI
Mapping Gentrification in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles: Using Geographic Information
System (GIS) Analytical Tools

Akira Takayama Prize in Economics
IKENOYA, KANAKO
The Influence of Production Adjustment of Rice and the Way of Rice Farming in Japan: Through Estimating Rice Production Function and Potential Output by Using Prefectural Panel Data

KIYONO, YUKI
The Marketing Strategy of Ethical Products: The analysis of successful companies selling Ethical Products in the Japanese market

KUMANOMIDO, HIROSHI
Survey on Gravity Equation of International Trade

Maurice & Arvilla ‘Billie’ Troyer Prize in Education
KIUCHI, MOENO
Exploring Effects of Environmental Change on Ethnic Minority Identity: The Case of Ethnic Minority People from Myanmar Residing in Japan

KONDO, TAKAFUMI
Educational Technology Research on Using Films in Literature Education: The Role of “Yumejuya (Film)” in Reading “Yumejuya (Literary Work)”

Kiyoko Cho Academic Award in Asian Studies
SEKINE, RENA
“Belief” of common people in Edo period: meanings of visiting Naritasan Shinshoji Temple

Masa’s Peacemaking Award
KOBAYASHI, HARUMI
Addressing National Security and Human Rights: The United States on North Korea and the Helsinki on Poland

Koya Azumi Award in Sociology
YAMAMOTO, SUZUKA
The Influence of Connection on the Feeling of Security: In the Case of Mitaka City

Takakazu Kuriyama Award for International Peace & Diplomacy
NOMURA, NAO
Nationalism in Japan: Recurring Symbols and Narratives in the 21st Century 150 Years After the Meiji Restoration
ICU Graduate Science Award
JOHN, JOSHUA
DUMENKOSI

Material characterization of amorphous selenium and device fabrication
ICU Undergraduate Science Award
MINAMI, YURI
Construction of Digital Optical Phase Conjugator with Reflective LC Panel and Evaluation of its Efficiency and Tracking Ability
Gödel Foundation Prize
HIRANO, YUKI
Analysis of Efficiency of Bitcoin Market
TRainbow Award in Gender and Sexuality Studies
HIGASHIMURA, MIYU
Liberation from “Sexual Minority”: Invisibilized Asexuality in the Romanticism and “Physical Contactism” Society

There is no recipient for the following awards for the Academic Year 2017.
Tatsuro Kunugi Academic Award in Studies of Global Governance
Academic Award for Vietnamese Studies
Fumiko Koide Academic Award in Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language