Awarded to the best book written by a scholar under 45 on a Japanese subject (for 'A Career of Japan', Brill 2016).
This award has been created to publicly celebrate Professor Josef Kreiner in his unrecognized academic efforts to promote Japanese studies in Europe and at Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies (HIJAS). At the same time we want to encourage overseas scholars of Japanese studies and to contribute to further development in this academic field.