Randolf DAVID／ Grand Prize 2019

Greetings to the people of Fukuoka.  No other event in the past 100 years has ravaged our worl…

Pasuk PHONGPAICHIT & Chris BAKER／ Grand Prize 2017

When we got the news about the Fukuoka Prize, I was in a taxi in the Bangkok traffic. Chris read the e…

Thant Myint-U／ Grand Prize 2015

Receiving the Fukuoka Grand Prize has been one of my proudest achievements.  I received the award…

Ezra F. VOGEL／ Grand Prize 2014

It was a great honor to be selected to receive the Fukuoka Prize. And I expect that the Fukuoka Prize…

Augustin BERQUE／ Grand Prize 2009

As seen from the West, studying Asian cultures is considered as orientalism. Toward the end of the las…