{"id":15580,"date":"2026-11-05T15:41:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T06:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/?p=15580"},"modified":"2026-11-10T16:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T07:22:41","slug":"award-20261105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/2026\/11\/05\/award-20261105\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Kentaro Nakajima Received the 69th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Kentaro Nakajima, Kensuke Teshima, and Junichi Yamasaki’s book<\/span>, Learning Urban Economics by Walking (Nippon Hyoron Sha, published on October 2, 2025), has received the 69th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science (2026)<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The prize recognizes outstanding books in economics, business, and management published in Japanese between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026, as well as books published in foreign languages by Japanese authors between January 1 and December 31, 2025.<\/p>

The prize was established in 1958 to contribute to the advancement of academics and knowledge in the fields of economics, management, and accounting, as well as to its general dissemination and application.<\/p>

For more information, please visit the Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER):<\/p>

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Kentaro Nakajima, Kensuke Teshima, and Junichi Yamasaki’s book, Learning Urban Economics by Walking (Nippon Hyoron Sha, published on October 2, 2025), has received the 69th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science (2026). trophy The prize recognizes outstanding books in economics, business, and management published in Japanese between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026, as well as books published in foreign languages by Japanese authors between January 1 and December 31, 2025. The prize was established in 1958 to contribute to the advancement of academics and knowledge in the fields of economics, management, and accounting, as well as to its general dissemination and application. For more information, please…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"common","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-award","category-iir-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15580"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15619,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15580\/revisions\/15619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}