Shintarō Arakawa of bilingual Tangut-Tibetan texts. In 2016 Arakawa received the prestigious 金田一京助博士記念賞 award for his study of the Tangut version of the Diamond Sutra. Заслуги Н. А. Невского в исследовании тангутскогоязыка, Николай Невский: жизнь и наследие, 157--169, 2013年 Shintarō Arakawa Arakawa graduated from the Faculty of Letters at Kyoto University in 1995. He stayed on for graduate studies at Kyoto University, from where he received his doctorate in 2002. Since 2003 he has been teaching at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, with the position of associate professor since 2007. Arakawa specialises in the study of the Tangut language, in particular Tangut
Japanese gunboat Sumida (1939) commissioned into the Republic of China Navy as the "Chiang Hsi" (). She was removed from the Japanese navy list on 3 May 1947. Captured during the Chinese Civil War by the People’s Republic of China, she was commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy on 30 November 1949 as the gunboat "Fu Jiang" (). She was finally scrapped in the 1960s. Japanese gunboat Sumida (1939) "Sumida" was the second of two vessels in the river gunboats authorized under the 3rd Naval Armaments Supplement Programme of 1937. "Sumida" had a hull with an overall length of and width of ,