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John Whitney Hall John Whitney Hall (September 13, 1916 – October 21, 1997),"John Whitney Hall papers, 1930–1999", Yale University Library was an American historian of Japan who specialized in premodern Japanese history. His life work was recognized by the Japan ...
is commemorated in the name of this prize. The Hall Prize acknowledges an outstanding English language book published on Japan or Korea; and the prize honors the author of the book.Association of Asian Studies, (AAS)
John Whitney Hall Book Prize
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AAS prize

AAS is a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia. The association was founded in 1941 as publisher of the ''Far Eastern Quarterly'' (now the ''Journal of Asian Studies''). The organization has gone through a series of reorganizations since those early days; but its continuing function serves to further an exchange of information among scholars to increase understanding about East, South, and Southeast Asia. The Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the AAS oversees the John Whitney Hall Book Prize.


Select list of honorees

* 1994 —
Carter J. Eckert Carter J. Eckert is an American academic and author and the Professor of History of Korea, Korean History at Harvard University. Early life and education Eckert was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Lawrence University, where he studied Histor ...
, ''Offspring of Empire, the Koch’ang and Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876–1945'' (University of Washington Press, 1991)International Institute for Asian Studies
John Whitney Hall Book Prize
, 1994 and 1995
* 1995 —
Melinda Takeuchi Melinda Takeuchi is an academic, an author, a Japanologist and a Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Department of Art History at Stanford University. Early life Takeuchi grew up in what was then rural-Malibu i ...
, ''Taiga’s True Views: The Language of Landscape Painting in Eighteenth-Century Japan'' (Stanford University Press, 1993) * 1996 —
Richard J. Samuels Richard J. Samuels (born November 2, 1951) is an American academic, political scientist, author, Japanologist, Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
, ''Rich Nation, Strong Army: National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan'' (Cornell University Press, 1994) * 1997 — John Whittier Treat, ''Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb'' (University of Chicago Press, 1995) * 1998 —
James Palais James B. Palais (Korean: 제임스 팔레) (1934-2006) was an American historian, koreanologist, and writer. He served as Professor of Korean History at the University of Washington; and he was a key figure in establishing Korean studies in the Uni ...
, ''Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty'' (University of Washington Press, 1996)AAS
Hall Book Prize, list of winners
; retrieved 2013-06-11
* 1999 — Susan B. Hanley, ''Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture'' (University of California Press, 1997) * 2000 — William M. Tsutsui, ''Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan'' (Princeton University Press, 1998) * 2001 —
Mark J. Hudson Mark James Hudson (born 10 July 1963, in Roade) is a British archaeologist interested in multicultural Japan. His initial areas of specialization were the Jōmon period and the Yayoi period.Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA) Member news ...
, ''Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands'' (University of Hawaii Press, 1999) * 2002 —
Thomas LaMarre Thomas Mark Lamarre (born 1959) is an American-Canadian academic, author, Japanologist and professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies. Education LaMarre was awarded a bachelor's degree in Biology in 1981 ...
, ''Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archeology of Sensation and Inscription'' (Duke University Press, 2000) * 2003 — E. Taylor Atkins, ''Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan'' (Duke University Press, 2001) * 2004 — Andre Schmid, ''Korea Between Empires, 1895–1919'' (Columbia University Press, 2002) * 2005 —
Jordan Sand Jordan Sand is an American Japanologist. He is a professor of Japanese history and culture at Georgetown University with a focus on the architectural and cultural history of Japan. Biography Sand received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia Universi ...
, ''House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880–1930'' (Harvard University Asia Center, 2003). * 2006 — Andrew M. Watsky, ''Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan'' (University of Washington Press, 2004). * 2007 — Eiko Ikegami, ''Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture'' (Cambridge University Press, 2005) * 2008 —
Karen Nakamura Karen Nakamura (born October 23, 1970) is an American academic, author, filmmaker, photographer and the Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair of Disability Studies and Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. Previousl ...
, ''Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity'' (Cornell University Press, 2006) * 2009 —
Ann Jannetta Ann Bowman Jannetta (born 1932) is an American academic, historian, author, Japanologist and Professor of History Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh. Selected works In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Ann Jannetta, ...
, ''The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the ‘Opening’ of Japan'' (Stanford University Press, 2007) * 2010 — Ken K. Ito, ''An Age of Melodrama: Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the Century Japanese Novel'' (Stanford University Press, 2008) * 2011 — Karen Thornber, ''Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature'' (Harvard University Press, 2009) * 2012 —
Lori Meeks Lori Meeks is an American academic. She is an associate professor of religion and East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Southern California. Biography Meeks received her BA from Columbia University and PhD from Princeton Univers ...
, ''Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan'' (University of Hawai'i Press, 2010) * 2013 —
Mary C. Brinton Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religious contexts * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also calle ...
, ''Lost in Transition: Youth, Work and Instability in Postindustrial Japan'' (Cambridge University Press, 2011) *2014 —
Yukio Lippit Yukio is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Yukio can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: *幸夫, "happiness, man" *幸生, "happiness, live" *幸男, "happiness, man" *幸雄, ...
, ''Painting of the Realm: The Kano House of Painters in 17th-Century Japan'' (University of Washington Press, 2012) *2015 —
Fabian Drixler Fabian may refer to: People * Fabian (name), including a list of people with the given name or surname * Pope Fabian (died 250), Catholic saint * Fabian Forte (born 1943), 1950s American teen idol, singer and actor, known by the mononym Fabian * ...
, ''Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950'' (University of California Press, 2013) *2016 —
Ran Zwigenberg Ran, RaN and ran may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Ran'' (film), a 1985 film directed by Akira Kurosawa * "Ran" (song), a 2013 Japanese song by Luna Sea * '' Ran Online'', a 2004 MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game) * ...
, ''Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture'' (Cambridge University Press, 2014) *2017 —
Noriko Manabe is a Japanese given name for females. Possible writings * 徳子, "benevolence child" * 法子, "method, law child" * 則子, "rule child" * 紀子, "chronicle child" * 教子, "teach child" * 範子, "pattern child" * 典子, "rule, precedent, c ...
, ''The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima'' (Oxford University Press, 2015). Oxford University Press

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*2017 Honorable Mention—
Federico Marcon Federico (; ) is a given name and surname. It is a form of Frederick, most commonly found in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. People with the given name Federico Artists * Federico Ágreda, Venezuelan composer and DJ. * Federico Aguilar Alcuaz, ...
, ''The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan'' (University of Chicago Press, 2015) *2018 —
Satoko Shimazaki Satoko (さとこ, サトコ) is a Japanese female given name. Possible Writings Satoko can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *聡子 "wise, child" *智子 "wisdom, child" *里子 "village, child" *理子 "logic, child" * ...
, ''Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost''(Columbia University Press, 2015) *2018 Honorable Mention—
Yoshikuni Igarashi Yoshikuni is both a masculine Japanese given name and a Japanese surname. Possible writings Yoshikuni can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: *義国 or 義國, "justice, country" *義邦, " ...
, ''Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers'' (Columbia University Press, 2016) *2019 — Bryan D. Lowe, ''Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan'' (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017) *2020 — Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci, ''Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan'' (Stanford University Press, 2018) *2020 Honorable Mention — Maren A. Ehlers, ''Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan'' (Harvard University Press, 2018) *2021 — Benjamin Uchiyama, ''Japan's Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937-1945'' (Cambridge University Press, 2019) *2021 Honorable Mention — Kirsten L. Ziomek, ''Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan's Colonial Peoples'' (Harvard University Asia Center, 2019)


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for Korean History. American non-fiction literary awards Awards established in 1994 Asian awards Asian culture 1994 establishments in Michigan