Professor Tetsuo Mochizuki was awarded the Kimura Shoichi Prize in
1999 for his translation of V. Sorokin's "Roman." Professor Teruyuki
Hara's book A Tale of Vladivostok: The City-Crossroad of Russia and
Asia (Sanseido Publishers, 1998) won the eleventh Asia-Pacific Prize in
1999. The Academic Prize of the Japan Association of Agricultural
Economics in 1998 was awarded to Professor Rihito Yamamura for his
monograph Land Reforms in Russia, 1989-1996 (Taga Publishers, 1997).
One of our "alumni," Professor Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, was awarded the
fifteenth Ohira Masayoshi Prize for his two volume work The Northern
Territories Dispute and Russo-Japanese Relations (University of
California, Berkeley, 1997).