The Japan Foundation London is delighted to announce that Professor Arthur Stockwin will be awarded the Japan Foundation Award for Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange for the year 2009. The award ceremony will take place on the 6th of October in Tokyo, Japan. For other awards to be made this year, please see here As the founding Director of the Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies and Fellow of St Antony’s College at Oxford University, Professor Stockwin has made a great contribution to the field of Japanese Studies in this country, through his writing on modern Japanese politics and promotion of intellectual exchange between the UK and Japan. Professor Stockwin comments: “In accepting this award, I do so as a representative of those who have been involved in Japanese Studies at Oxford and indeed at other universities in the United Kingdom. Over the past two or three decades we have worked to promote the study of Japan in the UK. Interest in Japan, Japanese people, language, history, culture and institutions (formal and informal) remains strong, despite fluctuations that occur from time to time. For me it has been a fascinating experience to take part in the efforts to keep Japan lodged firmly within the consciousness of people in my country.” Professor Stockwin, this year awarded an OBE, has also previously been the recipient of The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbons from the Japanese Government.