The Historical Society of Japan (Shigakukai), founded in 1889, is the oldest and largest scholarly organisation for historical research in Japan. Its journal, Shigaku Zasshi is the most prestigious and highly regarded of Japan’s historical journals. The Historical Society of Japan Prize was established in 2014 to celebrate the work of scholars under the age of 40 who have made a critical contribution to historiography in the Japanese language.
The award ceremony will take place at the 121st annual meeting of the Historical Society of Japan, at the Hongō campus of the University of Tokyo on November 11th 2023.
The award committee’s reasoning will be published soon at the following link (in Japanese): http://www.shigakukai.or.jp/award/list/
For those interested in Dr Barrett’s article, it is available open access here (https://doi.org/10.24471/shigaku.131.2_1), with an abstract available in English here (http://www.shigakukai.or.jp/uploads/pdf/131-02_eng01.pdf).