2 p.m., June 18, 2008--Rachael Hutchinson, UD assistant professor of Japanese in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, received the 2007 Toshiba International Foundation Award on April 11 during the annual British Association for Japanese Studies conference held in Manchester, United Kingdom.

The award, given for the best essay of the year in Japan Forum, the national journal of the British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS), includes $1,000 and the opportunity to give the annual Toshiba address at the BAJS conference. BAJS and Toshiba paid her expenses to attend the conference.

Hutchinson's essay titled, “Kurosawa Akira's One Wonderful Sunday: Censorship, Context and `Counter-discursive' Film," was published in Japan Forum, volume 19.3, pp. 369-389. The article appeared as part of a special issue on censorship in the Japanese arts.

Hutchinson received her doctorate at the University of Oxford in England. Her research interests include 20th century Japanese literature and film, representation and identity studies and censorship and counter-discourse.

Article by Barbara Garrison