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The Okuma Memorial Academic Prize has been awarded to Professor Ken’ichi Goto at Waseda University (Japan) for his book Tensions of Empire: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Colonial and Postcolonial World. This book is published by both Singapore University Press and Ohio University Press.

The Okuma Memorial Academic Prize was established in 1958 in memory of the late Shigenobu Okuma, the founder of Waseda University (Japan) to promote the arts and sciences. It is awarded annually to faculty members in recognition of outstanding contribution to their respective field of study.

See link for more info about the book.

See the copy of the press release where Nature, a division of Macmillan Publishers, has decided to encourage authors to post versions of their papers online, in university-run institutional repositories. They do request authors to post six months after publication, but it is a significant step nonetheless. This is a kind of retroactive endorsement of the US National Institute of Health's proposed policy of requiring online access for publically-funded research results.

Tony Reid's piece on the Aceh Situation appeared in the op-ed section of today's Straits Times. We link here to a copy sent to the H-SEASIA online discussion group.

Tony has recently published An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and Other Histories of Sumatra under the Singapore University Press imprint.

For information on tsunami relief efforts, please see Paul's note sent to members of the H-SEASIA mailing list.