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NikkeiBP Announces Five
Winners of "2002 NikkeiBP Innovators Award"
Tokyo -- November 6, 2002 -- NikkeiBP announced the
five winners of "2002 NikkeiBP Innovators Award." The award was
established this year with the aim of revitalizing Japan's bleak
industry. The screening of the award was conducted to select
candidates from diversified professions and fields, with unique
ideas originating in Japan. Selected as candidates were engineers
who contributed to the development of technology in Japan through
their creative research; those with innovative technology and
business model that have the potential to nurture the future of the
Japanese industry; and people who put their efforts to revitalizing
the business of major companies. The commendation ceremony will be
held on November 21 at Takanawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo to award the
winners with a certificate of commendation and a prize.
Herewith are the details of the five winners:
Winner for the Grand Prize
Studio Ghibli Producer
Toshio Suzuki
Winner for the Special Award
Mr.
Koichi Tanaka, a fellow researcher at Shimadzu (2002 Nobel Prize
Laureate in chemistry)
Winners for the Excellence Award
Associate Professor Ryuichi Morishita of Osaka University
Medical School (founder of AnGes MG)
Aplix CEO & Chairman Ryu Koriyama
ESI President Mitsuji Kyozuka
The Grand Prize went to
Studio Ghibli Producer Suzuki for the outstanding work in 2002
Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear Award-winner "Spirited Away (Sen
To Chihiro No Kamikakushi)." Spirited Away had the record-breaking
box office of 30 billion yen, drawing 23.4 million audiences. Suzuki
was awarded the Grand Prize not only for creating high quality
animation, but also for introducing a tie-up method with sponsoring
companies at the stage of animation production process. This new
process gave animators the opportunity to create magnificent
animations by receiving abundant production fee beforehand in
exchange for extending media rights to sponsoring companies. This
approach has led to the upgrading of animators' working environment
standard, for instance, establishing studios for the animators anew
for devoting themselves in animation production.
The
Excellence Award went to Assistant Professor Morishita of Osaka
University Medical School for pioneering a therapeutic technique in
which HGF was used -- a discovery of Osaka University Professor
Toshikazu Nakamura -- to create new blood vessels. Morishita
contributed to the development of medical products that help prevent
cell necrosis. His discovery is expected to help develop therapeutic
products for dementia and Parkinson's disease. Aside from being an
assistant professor, Morishita also went beyond the field of
research and established bio-venture company AnGes MG. The company
is to submit an application for a clinical trial in the U.S. by end
of this year.
Aplix CEO & Chairman Koriyama was
recognized for facilitating the application of Java, which had long
been software for PCs, to mobile phones and compact informational
equipment. He is a pioneer in Japan to have explored into the age of
ubiquitous computer. Although Java is a software originating in the
U.S., Java application to compact information equipments is based on
a totally new idea. He was evaluated for creating an opportunity for
the Japanese computer industry to make a leap forward.
President Kyozuka of ESI was awarded the Excellent Award for
making unique challenges to waste problems, which is one of Japan's
major environmental issues. Kyozuka established a system in which
supermarket garbage is turned into compost. The system is dubbed as
an "Environmental Value Chain" because not only does the company
sell compost machines, but also collect/compost garbage, sell
fertilizers made from compost and buy goods including vegetables
from farmers using such fertilizer for supermarket sales.
Researcher Koichi Tanaka of Shimadzu was awarded the Special
Award for being the first Japanese corporate researcher to win the
Nobel Prize. He was also recognized for his incessant effort to
pursue his research.
Chairman of the screening committee
Professor Ikujiro Nonaka of Graduate School of International
Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University
Members of the
screening committee
Mr. Hiroo Imura, Member of Council for Science and Technology
Professor Ken Sakamura at The University of Tokyo
Former Vice-President Tadashi Sasaki of Sharp Corporation
Senior Advisor Takeo Shiina of IBM Japan
President Chiyono Terada of Art Corporation
President and Chief Executive Officer Uichiro Niwa of Itochu
Corporation
Chairman & CEO Yoshihiko Miyauchi of Orix Corporation
Professor Seiichiro Yonekura at Hitotsubashi
University
Nikkei Business will highlight the winners of 2002
NikkeiBP Innovators Award in its upcoming November 11 issue (in
Japanese only).
For further details, please
contact:
International Office
phone:
+813-5210-8502
fax: +813-5210-8119
http://www.nikkeibp.com/
mailto:info@nikkeibp.com
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