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The Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association’s Happy News College Student Grand Prizes - Awarded to a Meiji University Student and Group

May 14, 2014

The Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association held the Happy News 2013 award ceremony on March 11 at the Surugadai Campus where it awarded the College Student Grand Prize (Group) to the Meiji University Sports Press and the College Student Grand Prize (Individual) to Kenta Taniguchi (senior-year student of the School of Information and Communication).

The Happy News awards are given by the Nihon Shinbun Kyokai every year in April in recognition of outstanding newspapers articles that have been recommended as moving and empowering. This 10th year the award was given and some 2,271 recommendations were received from Japan and overseas with 912 recommending articles in the college student category. Meiji University Sports Press members submitted articles from all of its members and 145 overall.