Japan Academy Prize (academics)

The Nihongo|Japan Academy Prize|日本学士院賞 is a prize awarded by the Japan Academy in recognition of academic theses, books, and achievements. An award ceremony has been held every year since 1911. Up to nine of these Prizes are awarded every year. There have been 676 winners and 592 winning works as of 2005. They comprise a certificate, medal, and prize money of one million yen.

Ceremony

The ceremony is held on the premises of the Japan Academy in Ueno park. The Emperor has been visiting it since 1949. The three prizes awarded during the ceremony are:
* The Imperial Prize
* Japan Academy Prize
* Duke of Edinburgh Prize

After the ceremony some laureates give lectures on the topics of their research.

Recipients

* 2005
** Tetsuya Shiokawa for "Recherches sur Pascal"
** Shuichiro Kimura for "A History of the German Idea of Welfare State"
** Yukihiko Kiyokawa for "Formation of Modern Industrial Labor Force in Asia — Economic Development, Culture and Job Consciousness"
** Takashi Nakamura for "Theoretical Investigation of the Formation of Black Holes and the Emission of Gravitational Waves"
** Hiroyuki Sakaki and Hideo Ohno for "Studies on Quantum Control of Electrons by Semiconductor Nanostructures and Ferromagnetism"
** Hiroshi Kida for "Studies on Control of Influenza — Mechanism of Emergence of Pandemic Influenza Virus Strains in Poultry, Domestic Animals and Humans, and Molecular Basis of the Neutralization of Viral Infectivity with Antibodies"
** Yukihiko Kitamura for "Development and Malignant Transformation of Mast Cells and Interstitial Cells of Cajal through KIT Receptors"
** Masakatsu Shibasaki for "Studies on the Development of Asymmetric Catalysts and its Application to Medicinal Chemistry"

* 2004
** Naoya Katsumata for "Comparative Studies on Mediterranean/Middle Eastern Cultures and Literatures from the Perspective of Medieval Hebrew Literature"
** Hiroshi Takayanagi for "Studies on the Regulation of Bone Metabolism by the Immune System"
** Mitsuyasu Hasebe for "Molecular Phylogenetic and Evolutionary Developmental Studies of Plants"
** Shinichi Mochzuki for "Research on the Arithmetic Geometry of Hyperbolic Curves, including Solution via p-adic Methods of the Grothendieck Conjecture on Anabelian Geometry"
** Yasushi Watanabe "Ethnographical Studies on the Politics of Culture and Communities in Contemporary America"

External links

* [http://www.japan-acad.go.jp/english/activ.htm The Japan Academy]