The Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize

The Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize has been awarded every year since 1996. It promotes books that will contribute to greater understanding and cooperation among the peoples and nations of the Pacific Rim and South Asia. The Prize is worth US$30,000. Half of the cash award is given to the author of the winning fiction title, and half is given to the author of the winning non-fiction title. Before 1999, there was one winner.

• Fiction
• Non-fiction

1998

• My Year of meats Ruth L. Ozeki Winner
• Galapagos: Islands born of fire Tui DeRoy
• Under the Red Flag Ha Jin
• Cambodia: Report from a stricken land Henry Kamm
• The Electrical field Kerri Sakamoto
• Golden Arches East: McDonalds in East Asia edited by James L. Watson editor

1997

• Japan: A Reinterpretation Patrick Smith Winner
• Monkey Bridge Lan Cao
• Korea's Place in the sun Bruce Cumings
• The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders Donald Denoon et al., editor
• Chinese Opera: Images and stories Siu Wang-Ngai and Peter Lovrick
• The River at the center of the world: A Journey up the Yangtze and back in Chinese time Simon Winchester

1996

• Audrey Hepburn's neck Alan Brown Winner
• Virgin widows Gu Hua, translated by Howard Goldblatt
• East to America: Korean American life stories Elaine H. Kim and Eui-Young Yu
• The Weight of the yen R. Taggart Murphy
• Hiroshima forever: The Ecology of mourning Michael Perlman
• Japan and the enemies of open political science David Williams