Recipients of the Japan Academy Medal elected

Six scholars were elected as recipients of the 13th Japan Academy Medal at the 1105th General Meeting held on January 12th, 2017. They are:

Name	Daiji KAWAGUCHI
Position	Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
Research Subject	Econometric Analysis of Inequality in Japanese Labor Market

Name	Masashi SUGIYAMA
Position	Director, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project / Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Research Subject	Theory and Application of Machine Learning for Artificial Intelligence

Name	Motoki NOMACHI
Position	Associate Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University
Research Subject	Typological Studies in Slavic Morphosyntax and Its Diachronic and Areal Changes: With Special Reference to Kashubian

Name	Kazuyo MORO
Position	Team Leader, RIKEN-IMS
Research Subject	Identification and Characterization of a Novel Immune Cell

Name	Yasuhiro YAMADA
Position	Professor, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University
Research Subject	Development and Application of in vivo Cellular Reprogramming Technology for Regulating Cancer Cell Fate

Name	Naoki YOSHIDA
Position	Professor, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Research Subject	Large-Scale Numerical Simulations of Structure Formation in the Early Universe