Award for Excellence in Japanese Philosophy – Book Prize | European Network of Japanese Philosophy

Call for Submissions (2025) – Extended (Octobber 1st)!

The European Network of Japanese Philosophy (ENOJP) is pleased to announce that submissions for the 2025 Award for excellence in Japanese Philosophy are opened.

The Award will be presented to an outstanding book in the field of Japanese philosophy, including works by younger scholars.

We would like to express our gratitude to the authors who have sent us their works, to the publishers who have supported us and to the members of our reading committee for their valuable contributions to this first edition of the Award. Please don’t hesitate to have publishers send in your books, and help us spread the word! Do share the information as widely as possible – with publishers, colleagues, fellow philosophers, graduate students, and anyone else you think might be interested – through mailing lists, SNS, word of mouth, etc.

Honorarium

The Award includes an honorarium of €3,000, to be presented each year at the
annual meeting of the ENOJP. In case of the absence of the awardee, the
honorarium will be paid within ten days of the close of the annual meeting.

Submission (Deadline: 2025, October 1st)

Submitted books should be printed monographs published within the past five years in one of the following languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, or Spanish. Edited collections are excluded, but translations with commentary are
acceptable.
Submissions may deal with any aspect of Japanese philosophy, modern or premodern.
Two hard copies and one digital copy of works submitted for consideration should be sent to the address of President of the ENOJP, listed below, to arrive no later than 1 October 2025. Anything arriving after that date will automatically be transferred to the following year for consideration. Submitted materials will not be returned.
Submission may be made by authors, publishers or third parties. They should be accompanied by a brief resume of the contents (less than 1,000 words) composed by the author.
A work may be submitted more than once, provided it falls within the
five-year period indicated above.

Evaluation Committee

The President of the ENOJP will appoint an evaluation committee based on the
content and language of the submission. The Award will be announced at the
annual conference of the ENOJP.

Contact

Mail submissions to:

1) (submission form + one digital copy): enojp.award.2025@gmail.com

2) (hard copy) Alexandra MUSTATEA (President, ENOJP)

Kanda University of International Studies

Department of International Communication

Chiba, Mihama Ward, Wakaba 1 Chome-4-1, 〒 261-0014

Email contact: enojp.award@gmail.com