Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori has been awarded a "Twentieth-Century Japan Research Award" for 2006-07 from the University of Maryland. The grant supports research in the University's McKeldin Library's Prange Collection and East Asia Collection on topics related to the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan and its aftermath, 1945-1960. Omori is currently a visiting research fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan.
