Dina Hassan (Ph.D. Candidate, History) receives 2025 Akiyama Award
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.
Read MoreAva Bush (RSEA '25) receives 2025 Fletcher Award
At the commencement reception of the Regional Studies East Asia Program, Ava Bush (RSEA '25) received a 2025 Joseph Fletcher Memorial Thesis Award for her thesis "Disentangling the Taizōkai Mandala: A Gendered Matrix of Enlightenment and Ritual Union," advised by Prof. Yukio Lippit, Department of History of Art and Architecture.
Read MoreKaren L. Thornber named Harvard College Professor
Karen L. Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, was recently honored by FAS Dean Hopi Hoekstra with the distinguished title of Harvard College Professor.
Read MoreJohn M. Doyle receives 2025 William F. Meggers Award and elected to National Academy of Sciences
John M. Doyle, Henry B. Silsbee Professor of Physics, has recently been selected as the recipient of the William F. Meggers Award by Optica, Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide.
Read MoreRecognizing "Japan Day" (May 7) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Today, the Reischauer Institute acknowledges the recent designation of May 7 as "Japan Day" by the Massachusetts House of Representatives, in recognition of John Manjiro (Nakahama)'s arrival in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1843 – the beginning of the longstanding cooperation and friendship between Japan and the Commonwealth.
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