Contemporary Japan Best Paper Award
Founded in 2018, the Contemporary Japan Best Paper Prize is awarded biennially to a paper published within the previous two volumes of the journal. The winning paper and two runner-ups are selected through a review conducted by the Journal's Editorial Board.
Award Winners
2022 Winner: Jennifer M. McGuire, ‘Who am I with others?: Selfhood and shuwa among mainstream educated deaf and hard-of-hearing Japanese youth’, volume 32, issue 2.
2022 Runners Up: Nils Dahl, 'Governing through kodokushi. Japan’s lonely deaths and their impact on community self-government,' volume 32, issue 1; Tobias Weiss, 'Uniformity or polarization? The nuclear power debate in Japanese newspapers and political coalitions, 1973–2014,' volume 33, issue 1.
2020 Winner: Yūki Asahina, 'Becoming Right-Wing Citizens in Contemporary Japan', volume 31, issue 2.
2018 Winner: Anne-Lise Mithout, 'Children with disabilities in the Japanese school system: a path toward social integration', volume 28, issue 2.
The remaining papers in the collection below were runners-up for the Contemporary Japan Best Paper Prize.