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Congrats To The Recipients Of The 20Th Century Japan Research Awards!

February 28, 2017 History | Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

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Congratulations to the recipients of the 20th Century Japan Research Awards for 2016-2017!

Congratulations to the following recipients of the 20th Century Japan Research Awards for 2016-2017:   Jonathan Bull (Hokkaido University) for his proposal, Settling the unsettled: history and memory in the construction of the Karafuto repatriate.   Robert Hegwood (University of Pennsylvania) for his proposal, Diasporic Diplomacy: The intermediary role that Japanese Americans (Nikkei) played in a grassroots campaign to change American perceptions of postwar Japan.   The Award, first offered in 1999, is co-sponsored by the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and the University of Maryland Libraries. The grants support research in the Gordon W. Prange and East Asia Collections on topics related to the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan and its aftermath, 1945-1960.   See this page for more details about the Award.