Awards

List of Awards Presented by JSPE

JSPE PRIZE

Business Year Awardees
2026 (22nd) Keiichi SHIRASE
Hirokuni HIYAMA

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JSPE Technology Award

Business Year Awarded Technology Awardees Affiliation
2026 (46th) Development of spindle thermal displacement control technology for achieving both energy saving and high-precision machining Misaki HIDA
Daichi KAWAUCHI
Reiji KANBE
Yo KAMADA
Eisuke SOGABE
Okuma Corporation
Okuma Corporation
Okuma Corporation
Okuma Corporation
Okuma Corporation

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JSPE Young Engineer Award

Business Year Awarded Technology Awardees (Affiliation)
2026 (22nd) Proposal of a method for planning improvement measures of multiple production indicators considering inter-process relationships from design to manufacturing Kazunori YOSHIDA (Hitachi, Ltd.)
Hiroki MITSUTA (Hitachi, Ltd.)
Influence of camera-conversion lens distance and the effect of inverse distortion correction in a stereo camera VR evaluation system Masao NAKAGAWA (Doshisha University)

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JSPE Monozukuri Award

Business Year Grade Awarded Organization
2026 (10th) Monozukuri Award Best Award Inspec Inc.
Monozukuri Award Excellence Award Volumetric Accuracy Research Institute Co., Ltd.
Monozukuri Award Excellence Award GOAL CO., LTD.
Monozukuri Award Excellence Award Beckhoff Automation K.K.
Monozukuri Award Excellence Award Yamamoto Metal Technos Co., Ltd.
Monozukuri Award NSW Inc.
Monozukuri Award KEISOKU ENGINEERING SYSTEM CO., LTD.
Monozukuri Award SHINKIKAI GIKEN CO.,LTD.
Monozukuri Award RIX CORPORATION

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JSPE Best Paper Award

Business Year Title of Awarded Paper Awardees (Affiliation) Journal and Volume
2025 (22nd) Topology optimization for the design of lithium-ion battery separators Naoyuki ISHIDA (Kyoto University)
Takamitsu SASAKI (Kyoto University)
Shun NOGUCHI (Kyoto University)
Shotaro HAYASHI (TOYOTA BATTERY Co., Ltd.)
Shozo FUJI (TOYOTA BATTERY Co., Ltd.)
Kozo FURUTA (Kyoto University)
Kazuhiro IZUI (Kyoto University)
Shinji NISHIWAKI (Kyoto University)
J. JSPE, Vol. 91, No. 7
Surveillance video anomaly detection via automatic caption generation using multimodal large language models Satoshi HASHIMOTO (KDDI Research, Inc.)
Hitoshi NISHIMURA (KDDI Research, Inc.)
Mori KUROKAWA (KDDI Research, Inc.)
J. JSPE, Vol. 91, No. 12
Realization of high-precision electrochemical machining by active use of hydrogen bubbles generated in non-machining area Qingrong ZHANG (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
Wataru NATSU(Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
Hongping LUO(Guangdong University of Technology)
Precision Engineering, Vol. 91

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JSPE Young Researcher Award

Business Year Title of Awarded Paper Awardees (Affiliation) Journal and Volume
2025 (22nd) Improvement of anomaly detection accuracy by reducing the camera gap based on image conversion using ideal pair images Naoto HIRAMATSU (Chukyo University) J. JSPE, Vol. 91, No. 2
Anomaly detection by pre-training based on estimation of parameters constituting pseudo defects to distinguish subtle surface variations in industrial products Hiroki KOBAYASHI (Chukyo University) J. JSPE, Vol. 91, No. 10
A two-axis Lloyd’s mirror interferometer with elastically bent mirrors for fabrication of variable-line-spacing scale gratings Chenguang YIN (Tohoku University) Precision Engineering, Vol. 94

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JSPE Numata Memorial Paper Award

Business Year Title of Awarded Paper Awardees (Affiliation) Journal and Volume
2025 (42nd) Two-point diameter calibration of a sphere by a micro-coordinate measuring machine using a silicon gauge block as a reference standard Yohan KONDO (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
Akiko HIRAI (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
Toshiharu KATSUBE (Panasonic Production Engineering Co., Ltd.)
Natsumi KAWASHIMA (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
Youichi BITOU (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
Precision Engineering, Vol. 92
Time delay compensation in high-speed diamond turning of freeform surface using independent fast tool servo with a long stroke Takeshi HASHIMOTO (Keio University)
Jiwang YAN (Keio University)
Precision Engineering, Vol. 93

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JSPE Takagi Award

Business Year Title of Awarded Paper Awardees (Affiliation) Journal, Volume, and
Awarded Organization
2025 (28th,
36 times in total)
Monitoring method of cutting forces and vibrations by using frequency separation of acceleration sensor signals during milling process with small ball end mills Junichi KOUGUCHI*
Hayato YOSHIOKA
Precision Engineering, Vol. 85

Beckhoff Automation K.K.*
SelfA-inclinometer: A novel device for evaluating the accuracy of tilting rotary tables in five-axis machine tools Naoyuki TAKAHASHI*
Tsukasa WATANABE
Kazuteru TOBITA
Precision Engineering, Vol. 95

Sankyo Seisakusho Co.*

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JSPE Best Impact Article Award

Business Year Title of Awarded Paper Awardees
2026 (6th)
(Period covered :
January to December 2025)
1. The Basics of Nanoindentation Method Satoshi SHIMIZU
2. Application for CMP Technology on the Advanced ULSI Device Fabrication Keisuke SUZUKI
Hideaki NISHIZAWA
3. It’s Not Just Rock―the Principle and Mechanism of Polarizing Microscope, and Its Various Uses Takaki ISHIGUCHI
4. Technologies for Superconducting Quantum Bits Eisuke ABE
Shuhei TAMATE
5. Environment and Its Control in Precision Processing and Measurements Masaji SAWABE
6. Current Status and Future of Energy Harvesting Technologies Keiji TAKEUCHI
7. Damping Mechanism and Characteristics of Rubber Kazuyoshi IIDA
8. How Dose Fatigue Fracture Occur in Metals? Kenji KANAZAWA
9. Winding Theory of Web Toshimitsu KANDA
Hiromu HASHIMOTO
10. Basics and Applications of Discrete Element Method Mikio YAMANOI
Yoichi NAKATA

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