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Special Prizes - The Old Japan Students'
Association, Thailand (OJSAT) /
"Japanese Mothers for Foreign Students" Movement of the Tokyo YWCA /
Warsaw University, Oriental Studies Institute, Department of Japanese and Korean Studies
Gerald L. Curtis (U.S.A)
(Burgess Professor of Political Science, Columbia University)
One of the world's most distinguished political scientists knowledgeable about
Japan,
Dr. Curtis has made notable contributions to cultural exchange and mutual
understanding across Japan, the United States, and other countries and to
training outstanding young scholars. He is a leading authority on Japan's
policy making processes whose analyses of Japanese politics are insightful
and penetrating and whose commentaries in the mass media in both Japan and
the United States have contributed greatly to fostering deeper mutual understanding
between Japan and the United States.
Brief Personal History
| 1962 | B.A., Department of Social Sciences, University of New Mexico |
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| 1964 | M.A., Department of Political Science, Columbia University |
| 1964-65 | Studied at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Studies, Tokyo |
| 1968 | Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Columbia University |
| 1969 | Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Columbia University |
| 1972 | Assistant Professor Department of Political Science, Columbia University |
| 1973-1991 | Director, East Asian Institute, Columbia University (1973-75, 1977-84, 1987-91) |
| 1974 | Associate Professor, Columbia University |
| 1974-77 | Chairman, Joint Committee on Japanese Studies, Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies |
| 1975-76 | Research Fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs |
| 1977-79 | Member, American Advisory Committee, The Japan Foundation |
| 1982-83 | Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University |
| 1991-2000 | Member of the Advisory Council, Center for Global Partnership |
| 1998- | Burgess Professor of Political Science, Columbia University |
| 2000- | Visiting Professor, Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies |
| 2001 | Visiting Professor, College de France |
Dr. Curtis is columnist and advisor to the Chunichi and Tokyo Shimbun,
a member of the Board of Trustees of the US-Japan Foundation, Senior Advisor
to Newsweek for Newsweek Japan and Newsweek Korea.
He has served as director of the US-Japan Parliamentary Exchange Program,
member of the Trilateral Commission, coordinator of the Shimoda Conferences
on US-Japan relations. Cited by Newsweek as one of the ten leading
scholars on Asia in the United States.
Author of numerous books including Election Campaigning Japanese Style (1971), Japanese-American Relations in the Seventies (editor, 1971), The Japanese Way of Politics (1987,Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, 1989), Doken Kokka Nippon (with Ishikawa Masumi, 1984), Nihon no Seiji O Doo Miru Ka (1995), The Logic of Japanese Politics (2000), Policymaking in Japan: Defining the Role of Politicians (editor, 2002).