List of Past Award Recipients

Book

• Yoko Nobe, Sociology of Adoption: The meaning of Blood Ties in Contemporary Japan, Shinyosha

17th（2018）

Article

• Ryota Mugiyama, “Employment History and Transition to Marriage: Different Effect of Employment Status, Occupation, Firm Size, and Associated Changes According to Gender,” Japanese Journal of Family Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 2

Book

• Yasuo Yabuki, The Book I Wrote after Researching and Thinking about Albinism: Sociology Starting from the Person Concerned, Seikatsu Shoin
• Hiroki Nakamori, Sociology of Disappearance: A Study of Intimacy and Responsibility., Keio University Press

16th（2017）

Article

• Eiri Matsuoka, “Marginal Minorities Who Resist Hate-speech: Based on Interviews with “Naturalized Korean-Japanese” and “Doubles” Who Participate in “Counter Action,” Soshioroji, 60(3)

Book

• Kenjiro Sakakibara, Social Inclusion and the Body: Disability Definition and Different Treatments Following Disability Antidiscrimination Legislation, Seikatsu Shoin

15th（2016）

Article

• Minori Matsutani, “Why Do They Become Locally Employed Workers in Shanghai?: The Migration System and Migrants’ Motives,” Soshioroji, 60(2)

Book

• Ryo Okubo, Archeology of Screens in Early Modern Japan, Seikyusha
• Yutaka Koyama, Rehabilitating Civil Liberalism: From Carl Schmitt to Niklas Luhmann, Keiso Shobo

14th（2015）

Article

• Ryoichi Nishimaru, “The High School Sector and Educational Achievement: The Influence of Social Stratification in Private High School,” Soshioroji, 59(1)

Book

• Takashi Kashima, The Historical Sociology of Advertising Creators: The Fluctuation of the Individual and the Organization in Modern Japan,, Serika Shobo

13th（2014）

Article

• Sara Park, ““Who Are You?”: On Definition of “Korean Illegal Entrants” in Early Postwar Japan,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 64, No. 2

Book

No works eligible for the award

12th（2013）

Article

• Jin Masuda, “Permanent Part-Time Youth and Hope,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol.63, No.1

Book

• Tomonori Ishioka, Everyday Life of the Underdog Filipino Boxer: Body Cultures Crafted in Destitution,Sekaisishosya
• Taro Tsurumi, Zion Imagined: Russian Jews at the End of Empire, The University of Tokyo Press

11th（2012）

Article

• Yu Fukuda, “When We Reflect upon the Disaster and the Dead: The Transition of Rituals in the Nagasaki City Atomic Bomb Memorial Ceremony,” Soshioroji, 56(2)

Book

• Hideyo Nakamura, “Recovery” from Eating Disorders: Narrative-Based Clinical Sociology, Shinyosha
• Norihiro Nihei, The Birth and Demise of ‘Volunteer’: The Sociology of Knowledge in the Paradox of Giving, Nagoya University Press

10th（2011）

Article

• Hideki Inazu, “Surveillance Experiences of Nikkei Peruvians: Focusing on the “Transference” of Spatial Managers,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 61, No. 1.

Book

• Mayumi Fukunaga, Environmental ethics for polyphony: Legitimacy of Watershed Governance in the Mattole Where Salmon Returns, Harvest-sha.

9th（2010）

Article

• Satoshi Adachi, “Social Integration in Post-Multiculturalism: An Analysis of Social Integration Policy in Postwar Britain,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 60, No. 3.

Book

• Jun Tsunematsu, The Meaning of Tort Liability in Japan: A Sociological Exploration, Keiso Shobo

8th（2009）

Article

• Satoshi Okabe, “Family Background and the Process of Ability Formation,”
  Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 59, No. 3.

Book

• Kiyoshi Kanabishi, “Validated law” in Everyday practice: The Process of Legalisation of “Illegal” occupation in the Itami airport site, Shinyosha

7th（2008）

Article

• Hirohisa Takenoshita, “Intergenerational Mobility in East Asian Countries: A Comparative Study of Japan, Korea and China,” International Journal of Japanese Sociology Vol.16, No. 1
• Mayumi Fukunaga, “Legitimacy and the Discursive Space Based on the Collective Memory of Salmon: A case of the Mattole watershed in California,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 58, No. 2

Book

• Toshihiro Abe, Considering Past-Conflict Society, Kyoto University Press Shun Ishihara, The Japanese Empire and the Ogasawara, Heibonsha

6th（2007）

Article

• Suehisa Ohkura, “The Economic Sociology of Forest Devastation in Japan: A Case Study of Forestry Households in Tokushima Prefecture,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 57, No. 3

Book

• Shin Arita, Education and Social Stratification in South Korea: An Empirical Approach to the ‘School Credential Society’, The University of Tokyo Press

5th（2006）

Article

• Norihiro Nihei, “Rethinking of the Problem of Complicity between Volunteer Activities and Neo-liberalism,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 56, No. 2

Book

• Hideo Nakazawa, The Local Referendum Movement and Local Regime, Harvest- sha.

4th（2005）

Article

• Akihiko Higuchi, “The Mechanism of Social Exclusion in Modern Society: The Dilemma of Active Labor Market Policy,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol.55, No.1

Book

No works eligible for the award

3rd（2004）

Article

• Masato Onoue “Interpretation Freedom and New Combination: The Way in Which “Middle-Class” Has Been Narrated,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 54, No. 3

Book

• Josuke, Amada, Sociology of Aging and Frailty, Taga Shuppan

2nd（2003）

Article

• Yoshiaki Fukuma, “Representations of the ‘West,’ ‘Japan,’ the ‘Periphery’ and Nationality in the Discourse of Lafcadio Hearn Studies,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 53, No. 3

Book

• Eiji Oguma, “Minsyu” and “Aikoku” (Democracy and Patriotism): Nationalism and Publicness in Postwar Japan, Shinyosha.
• Naoko Takeda, Setouchi Fishing Emigrants to Manila: Their Impact on the Home Community, Ochanomizu Shobo

1st（2002）

Article

• Nobuo Imai, “Death, Modernity and Monuments: The Realities Expressed in the Monuments of the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake,” Japanese Sociological Review, Vol. 51, No. 4

Book

• Itsuko Kamoto, The Emergence of ‘Kokusai Kekkon’: On Becoming a ‘Civilized Nation’, Shinyosha.