The Reischauer Institute congratulates Gunn Chaiyapatranun (RSEA '24) for receiving a 2024 Joseph Fletcher Memorial Thesis Award, which recognizes students in the Regional Studies – East Asia program for research theses which demonstrate the high standard of excellence encouraged by the late Joseph Fletcher, Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History and a past chairman of the RSEA Committee, after whom the award was named. Advised by Yukio Lippit, Gunn was recognized for his thesis "Mingei Modern: Crafting a New Mode of Living In Shōwa Japan."

Two more A.M. graduates in Japanese Studies also received honorable mentions: Eura Choi for "Antagonism Despite Alignment: Strategic Alignments and the Mnemonic Politics of South Korea and Japan," advised by Andrew Gordon; and Tabreya Ryan (Craig Fellow) for "Unmasking Eros: Demystifying the Liberative Potential of Female Masochism through Okakura Hiroshi's Film Adaptation of Ogawa Yōko's Dark Romance Hotel Iris," advised by Alexander Zahlten.