Asia Cosmopolitan Awards is an international award established by

Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia The Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia or 'ERIA'' is an international organization established in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2008 by a formal agreement among Leaders of 16 countries in the East Asian region to conduct research activiti ...

(ERIA) in the context of

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of the 1300-year anniversary in 2010 of Heijo-kyo (ancient capital of Japan located in present-day

Nara The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an " independent federal agency of the United States government within the executive branch", charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It ...

) as the last destination of the ancient Silk Road and one of the first

cosmopolitan Cosmopolitan may refer to: Food and drink * Cosmopolitan (cocktail), also known as a "Cosmo" History * Rootless cosmopolitan, a Soviet derogatory epithet during Joseph Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign of 1949–1953 Hotels and resorts * Cosmopoli ...

cities in

East Asia East Asia is the eastern region of Asia, which is defined in both Geography, geographical and culture, ethno-cultural terms. The modern State (polity), states of East Asia include China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan. ...

. It is awarded to individuals or organizations who have made substantial and significant contributions to the development and enrichment of the East Asian Community in the fields of cultural and economic integration, narrowing the developmental gaps, and establishing sustainably growing societies in the region.

Outline and categories

The Asia Cosmopolitan Awards consists of three prizes: the Grand Prize, the Economic and Social Science Prize, and the Cultural Prize. Other prizes may be added as necessary. Main criteria for selection are as follows. * Grand Prize: Awarded to an individual and/or organization making the most distinguished achievements in economic, social science, or cultural fields. * Economic and Social Science Prize: Awarded to an individual and/or organization contributing to the betterment of Asia in the economic or social science fields through eminent achievements in scholarly research, business innovation, industrial technology, smart consumption activities, security/safety, social security, politics, philosophy, or other general social sciences * Cultural Prize: Awarded to an individual and/or organization contributing to the betterment of Asia in the cultural fields through eminent achievements in the arts, literature, content, cultural academic research or other cultural fields.

The 1st Asia Cosmopolitan Awards Awardees

* Grand Prize:

Supachai Panitchpakdi Supachai Panitchpakdi ( th, ศุภชัย พานิชภักดิ์, , ; born 30 May 1946 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai politician and professor. He was Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) from ...

, Secretary General of the

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(UNCTAD) * Economic and Social Science Prize:

Benedict Anderson Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (August 26, 1936 – December 13, 2015) was an Anglo-Irish political scientist and historian who lived and taught in the United States. Anderson is best known for his 1983 book '' Imagined Communities'', which e ...

, Professor Emeritus at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

* Cultural Prize:

Takehiko Inoue is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for the basketball series ''Slam Dunk'' (1990–1996), and the ''jidaigeki'' manga ''Vagabond'', which are two of the best-selling manga series in history. Many of his works are about basketball, I ...

, Japanese Manga Artist * Memorable Prize: The late Hadi Soesastro, Founder of the

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(CSIS)

The 2nd Asia Cosmopolitan Awards Awardees

* Grand Prize: Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of the Republic of India * Economic and Social Science: Peter Drysdale, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Economics and Government, the Australian National University ;

Wang Gungwu Wang Gungwu, (; born 9 October 1930) is a Chinese-Singaporean historian, sinologist, and writer. He is a historian of China and Southeast Asia. He has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora, but he has objected to the use of the word ...

, University Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

and Emeritus Professor of

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies an ...

* Cultural Prize:

Rithy Panh Rithy Panh ( km, ប៉ាន់ រិទ្ធី; born April 18, 1964) is a Cambodian documentary film director and screenwriter. The French-schooled director's films focus on the aftermath of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambod ...

, Cambodian Filmmaker ;

Takarazuka Revue The is a Japanese all-female musical theatre troupe based in Takarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Women play all roles in lavish, Broadway-style productions of Western-style musicals and stories adapted from films, novels, manga, and Japa ...

Company, Japanese theatrical music company

The 3rd Asia Cosmopolitan Awards (2016) Awardees

* Grand Prize: H.E. U

Thein Sein Thein Sein ( my, သိန်းစိန်; IPA: ; born 20 April 1944) is a Burmese politician and retired general in the Myanmar Army who served as the eighth President of Myanmar from 2011 to 2016. He previously served as Prime Minister ...

, former President of the

Republic of the Union of Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

* Economic and Social Science: Professor Masahisa Fujita, Professor, Konan University, Project Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University * Cultural Prize: H.E. Prof

Herman Van Rompuy Herman Achille, Count Van Rompuy (; born 31 October 1947) is a Belgian politician, who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 2008 to 2009 and then as the first permanent president of the European Council from 2009 to 2014. A politicia ...

Haiku is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases that contain a ''kireji'', or "cutting word", 17 '' on'' (phonetic units similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern, and a ''kigo'', or s ...

Ambassador for Japan- EU Friendship, President Emeritus of the European Council

The 4th Asia Cosmolitan Awards (2017) Awardees

* Grand Prize:

Yasuo Fukuda is a former Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2007 to 2008. He was previously the longest-serving Chief Cabinet Secretary in Japanese history, serving in that role from 2000 to 2004 under Prime Ministers Yoshirō M ...

, former Prime Minister, Japan * Economic and Social Science: Richard E. Baldwin, Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva * Cultural Prize:

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, Art Collective and Mieko Noguchi, Glass Artist * Memorable Prize:

Surin Pitsuwan Surin Abdul Halim bin Ismail Pitsuwan ( th, สุรินทร์ พิศสุวรรณ; Jawi: سورين عبدالحاليم بن اسماعيل ڤيتسووان; October 28, 1949 – November 30, 2017) was a Thai diplomat and politici ...

(1949-2017), Former Secretary General of ASEAN

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