At the 2017th General Assembly held on March 3, 13, the Japan Academy decided 1107 cases and 2017 people for the 9 Japan Academy Prize.

 The Japan Academy is to give preferential treatment to scientists with outstanding academic achievements established by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, whose predecessor is the Tokyo Academy, which was established in 1879, in order to promote the progress and development of education and science. institution.The award system by the Japan Academy was established in 1910, and awards are given to academically outstanding papers, books and other research achievements.

 Past winners include Sakae Kimura, Jokichi Takamine, Hideyo Noguchi, Nobutsuna Sasaki, Dr. Kazuyoshi Kaneda, and later Nobel Prize-winning Hideki Yukawa, Shinichiro Tomonaga, Kenichi Fukui, Leo Esaki, Masatoshi Koshiba, Ryoji Noyori, and Suzuki. There are Akira, Toshihide Maskawa, Makoto Kobayashi, Shinya Yamanaka, Isamu Akasaki, Satoshi Omura, and Dr. Takaaki Kajita.

 Akira Hasegawa, an emeritus professor at Tohoku University who received the Japan Academy Award and the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy, will build a highly sensitive and accurate seismic observation network in northeastern Japan, which is a typical plate subduction zone. A person who has clarified the crust and mantle structure of the subduction zone and seismic activity with higher resolution and accuracy than anywhere else in the world.Mr. Hasegawa has found that, starting with the discovery of a double deep-focus earthquake surface in a "slab" that has subducted into the mantle of an ocean plate, and the submission of evidence that inland earthquakes and interplate earthquakes occur under low stress. There are many examples in which it was confirmed by subsequent verification that this phenomenon is a phenomenon common to the subduction zones of the world.Furthermore, it greatly contributed to the elucidation of important issues in this field, such as opening the way to understand the relationship between earthquakes and volcanic phenomena and the island arc crust and mantle structure with the keyword "water that moves with the subduction of the plate". It was evaluated that it was done.

Other winners are:
・ Yumi Narazawa, Associate Professor, Faculty of Contemporary Policy, Josai University
・ Professor Hiromu Shimizu, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
・ Professor Emeritus, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization Fumihiko Takasaki
・ Professor Yasuhiko Arakawa, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo
・ Professor Emeritus of Tohoku University, Visiting Professor of Teikyo University Toshimitsu Yokobori
・ Professor Shigetō Namba, Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo
・ Professor Tatsushi Toda, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University
・ Mr. Tamao Endo, Deputy Director, Institute of Health and Longevity Medical Center, Tokyo
・ Mr. Soichiro Kitamura, Honorary President, National Cardiovascular Research Center

Reference: [Japan Academy] Regarding the decision to award the Japan Academy Prize

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