{"id":22613,"date":"2022-07-05T13:45:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T17:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=22613"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:49:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:49:47","slug":"professor-jacob-kovalio-awarded-medal-by-the-government-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2022\/professor-jacob-kovalio-awarded-medal-by-the-government-of-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Jacob Kovalio awarded medal by the Government of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Professor Jacob Kovalio awarded medal by the Government of Japan\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Kovalio_Medal-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Kovalio_Medal-002-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"two men standing and holding a framed certificate\" class=\"wp-image-22615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Kovalio_Medal-002-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Kovalio_Medal-002-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Kovalio_Medal-002-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Kovalio_Medal-002-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Kovalio_Medal-002.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, June 23<sup>rd<\/sup>,&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/jacob-kovalio\/\">Jacob Kovalio<\/a> \u2013 Associate Professor of Japanese History \u2013 was conferred the <em>Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette<\/em> at a ceremony hosted by the Ambassador of Japan to Canada, HE Yamanouchi Kanji. Dr. Kovalio earned the medal for his contribution to the enhancement of the knowledge of Japan\u2019s history and culture among Canadians as well as to the strengthening of Canadian-Japanese relations. In 2014, he received a special <em>Citation by the Foreign Minister of Japan<\/em> for his academic and educational work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally from Israel, Dr. Kovalio holds BA degrees in History and Development Economics from the University of Tel-Aviv as well as MA in Chinese History and PhD in Japanese History, both from the University of Pittsburgh. His research, teaching, and writing focus on modern and contemporary Japanese political, diplomatic, cultural history, and nationalism.&nbsp; He has spent a total of six years in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among his writings are \u201cHistory and Japan\u2019s relations with Northeast Asia and India,\u201d \u201cA.J. Toynbee and Japan,\u201d (in Jacob Kovalio ed., <em>Japan in Focus<\/em>), <em>The Russian Protocols of Zion in Japan<\/em>, <a href=\"freeandopenindopacific.net\">freeandopenindopacific.net<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacob Kovalio has taught at Carleton since 1987, winning three <em>Excellence in Teaching<\/em> awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2021\/congratulations-to-jacob-kovalio-for-the-conferment-of-the-order-of-the-rising-sun-gold-rays-with-rosette-by-the-japanese-government\/\">Check out a related news post here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, June 23rd,&nbsp; Jacob Kovalio \u2013 Associate Professor of Japanese History \u2013 was conferred the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette at a ceremony hosted by the Ambassador of Japan to Canada, HE Yamanouchi Kanji. Dr. Kovalio earned the medal for his contribution to the enhancement of the knowledge of Japan\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22616,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22613\/revisions\/22616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}