Fw: H-ASIA: Professor Kenneth Pyle award 2011 Foley Award

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: Professor Kenneth Pyle award 2011 Foley Award

> H-ASIA
> March 30, 2011
>
> Professor Kenneth Pyle is awarded the 2011 Thomas S. Foley Award
> *****************************************************************
> From: John Findlay <jfindlay@u.washington.edu>
>
> Dear colleagues:
>
> I am pleased to relay the news that our colleague Ken Pyle has been
> awarded
> the 2011 Thomas Foley Award, which recognizes "the person(s) or
> organization
> that best exemplifies [former] Ambassador Foley's commitment to promoting
> improved understanding of cultural and economic issues between the people
> of
> Washington State and Japan." This award is presented each year by the
> Japan
> America Society of the State of Washington.
>
> Text of press release:
>
> Press Release
>
> Japan-America Society of the State of Washington
> 1511 Third Ave, Suite 805
> Seattle, WA 98101
> http://www.jassw.org
>
> For Immediate Release
>
> University of Washington Professor Kenneth B. Pyle Named
> 2011 Recipient of Thomas S. Foley Award
>
> SEATTLE, WA (March 29, 2011) - The Japan-America Society of the State of
> Washington announced today that Professor Kenneth B. Pyle, Ph.D. is the
> recipient of the 2011 Thomas S. Foley Award. This annual award is named in
> honor of Washington State native, the Honorable Thomas S. Foley, Speaker
> of the U.S. House of Representatives (1989-1995) and U.S. Ambassador to
> Japan (1998-2001). This is the sixth year the award has been presented to
> the person(s) or organization that best exemplifies Ambassador Foley's
> commitment to promoting improved understanding of cultural and economic
> issues between the people of Washington State and Japan.
>
> "Dr. Pyle's contributions in the field of education, including many years
> of teaching and publishing on a myriad of related topics, epitomize the
> contributions which this award is meant to recognize," states Douglas S.
> Palmer, chairman of the board of the Japan-America Society of the State of
> Washington. "We could not be more pleased to include him on the roster of
> awardees."
>
> Dr. Pyle is the Henry M. Jackson Professor of History and Asian Studies at
> the University of Washington. He is Founding President of The National
> Bureau of Asian Research, an independent non-partisan research institute
> to promote an informed and effective American policy toward Asia.
>
> Author and editor of numerous works on modern Japan, his most recent book
> is Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose. He also was
> founding editor of the Journal of Japanese Studies.
>
> Among Dr. Pyle's many honors, one is extraordinary. The Japan Foundation
> in 2008 awarded its Special Prize for Japanese Studies to Dr. Pyle in
> ceremonies that included an audience with the Emperor and Empress of
> Japan.
>
> Presentation of the Thomas S. Foley Award will be made at the
> Japan-America Society's Annual Dinner on April 12st at Bell Harbor
> Conference Center in Seattle. For more information please visit the
> Society's website at www.jassw.org.
>
>
> John Findlay
> University of Washington
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