Kersey said he hopes his first book encourages scholars from different disciplines to form new connections.
Ono, a Japanese-American broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker, will receive the award and give a speech in honor of the celebrated Japanese American philanthropist later this spring.
International Institute senior Jasmine Mundo graduates this June with plans to study in Japan.
Winner of the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture, philosopher and literary critic Kojin Karatani was Terasaki Professor of U.S.-Japan Relations at UCLA in 2016–17.
Indra Levy of Stanford University has received the first Irene Hirano Inouye award from the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, which honors her contributions to Japanese studies as leader of the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies and as a scholar and mentor.