Subject: Tags: Spam prevention:Please, enter the code that you see below in the input field. This is for blocking bots that try to post this form automatically. If the code is hard to read, then just try to guess it right. If you enter the wrong code, a new image is created and you get another chance to enter it right.Enter code: Content: OCHIAI Emiko Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Professor Wako Asato from Kyoto University's > Graduate School of Letters received a 2014 > Presidential Award (Kaanib ng Bayan Award) for > Filipino Individuals and Organizations Overseas > conferred by President Benigno S Aquino III at a > ceremony held in Manila on 5 December. > (http://www.kuasu.cpier.kyoto-u.ac.jp/english/2015 > /01/06/asato1205/) The Presidential Awards > recognize individuals and organizations that have > made exceptional or significant contributions to > Philippine reconstruction, progress, or > development, or that have significantly helped to > advance the cause of overseas Filipinos. A > scholar of Asian studies specializing in > international migration, Dr Asato's activities > include working with a non-governmental > organization that provides scholarship grants to > underprivileged students in rural areas. He is > also working in partnership with the Commission on > Filipinos Overseas (CFO), a Filipino governmental > agency, to provide Japan-bound emigrants with > orientation seminars that cover various aspects of > living in Japan, as part of a program jointly > organized by the Kyoto University Asian Studies > Unit (KUASU). One of Dr Asato's collaborative > research projects with the Philippine government, > which helped to uncover human trafficking cases in > Osaka Prefecture, has been widely reported in the > media.