News & Events

ALL Professor Michael Molasky was awarded the coveted Suntory Prize for Arts and Letters for his book on jazz in postwar Japan, Sengo Nihon no jazu bunka: eiga, bungaku, angura (The Jazz Culture of Postwar Japan: Film, Literature, the Underground) (Tokyo: Seidosha, 2005). The award is among the most prestigious for academic and critical studies written in Japanese.