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Arisa Yokosu has been awarded the Azusa Ono Memorial Academic Award for the 2025 Academic Year.
Arisa Yokosu, a Second-Year Master’s student, has been awarded the Azusa Ono Memorial Academic Award for the 2025 Academic Year. The award-winning work is her Master’s thesis submitted to the Graduate School of Lettrs, Arts and Sciences, entitled “A Study on the Self–Other Boundary and Its Transformation: Focusing on Eastern Mind-Body Exercise and Depersonalization.” The award ceremony was held on stage during the graduation ceremony on March 25.
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Since her third year as an undergraduate, Yokosu-san has participated in the graduate seminars and has actively engaged in her research. Her Master's thesis consistently centers on the theme of the self-other boundary. It has elucidated various dimensions of this boundary and its transformation from both empirical and theoretical perspectives, examining, on the one hand, creative transformation induced by Eastern mind-body practices such as the paired martial-arts exercise “wakame exercise,” and, on the other hand, modes of experience observed in pathological conditions such as depersonalization.
While grounded in empirical psychological research, the thesis is distinguished by its interdisciplinary approach, extending its scope to Eastern philosophy, cultural anthropology, and even informatics. Through a process of rigorous empirical investigation and theoretical reflection, the study was concluded by proposing a theoretical model based on Toshihiko Izutsu’s philosophical theory and Kūkai’s mandala.
The thesis is a substantial work of nearly 150,000 Japanese characters. Portions of its chapters have been published in peer-reviewed international and domestic journals, making it an exceptionally well-developed and sophisticated Master’s thesis.
Yokosu-san is the second recipient of this award from Miyata Laboratory, following Kaho Yamaski in the 2023 Academic Year. While it is a great honor, each achievement is the result of steady, incremental effort, and we expect such work to continue in the future.
Congratulations!
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