Dina Hasan (Ph.D. Candidate, History) was recently named a recipient of the 2025 Akiyama Award by the Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. This award, also supported by the Akiyama Aiseikan, Akiyama Life Science Foundation, and the Reischauer Institute, is a summer research grant annually presented to a doctoral student who conducts social science research on contemporary Japan. With support from this award and a summer research grant from the Reischauer Institute, Dina will pursue research on "Japan and the African Continent in the Prewar Period."