Comparative Studies of Northern Cultures and Preparation of a Northern Culture Database.

北方文化比较研究：在1988年至1990年的两年时间里，我们举行了四次会议，发表了研究论文，概述了每个感兴趣领域的研究现状。这一时期涵盖的主题范围从北美和西伯利亚的北极-亚北极文化概述到一个非常具体的研究领域，如斯堪的纳维亚萨米人的文化复兴运动和古亚洲人的神话。文章总结了他们的研究兴趣，并纳入了会议上提出的意见和建议，发表在下面的书中；小谷吉信主编，1990，《北方文化比较研究》，名古屋大学。作者包括T. obayashi， H. Watanabe， S.Saito， K.Kato， K.Inoue， T.Irimoto， T. tsumagari， K.Saito， S.Sasaki， H. shoji， T. Yanada和y . kotani .关于阿伊努人和北方文化的文章数据库（NCD）的准备工作：阿伊努数据库是由北海道大学的工作人员小组，包括Irimoto， Shinichiro Kuroda和Yanada Takako。该数据库部分通过校际计算机网络向公众开放。另外一个数据库是由小谷吉信、斋藤真司、井上光一等人在名古屋大学开发的北方文化数据库（NCD），计划在下一会计年度向相关研究人员开放。”

Comparative Studies on Northern Cultures: In the two-year period (1988 through 1990), we had four meetings where we delivered research papers outlining current research status of each field of interest. Topics covered in this period range from an overview of Arctic-Subarctic cultures both in North America and Siberia to a very specific area of research such as cultural revitalization movements among the Sami in Scandinavia and a myth notifamong the Palaeo-Asians.Articles summarizing their research interests and incorporating comments and suggestions given at the meetings are published in the following book; Yoshinobu Kotani (ed.), 1990, Comparative Studies on Northern Cultures, Nagoya University. Contributors include T.Obayashi, H. Watanabe, S.Saito, K.Kato, K.Inoue, T.Irimoto, T.Tsumagari, K.Saito, S.Sasaki, H.Shoji, T. Yanada and Y.Kotani.PREPARATIONS FOR DATABASE OF ARTICLES ON THE AINU AND NORTHERN CULTURES (NCD): Ainu Database was prepared by the group of Hokkaido University staff members including Takashi Irimoto, Shinichiro Kuroda and Takako Yanada. This database is partially open to the public through the inter-university computer network.The other database, Northern Culture Database (NCD), was prepared at the Nagoya University by the group members including Yoshinobu Kotani, Shinji Saito and Koichi Inoue, and we plan to make this database open to the concerned researchers next fiscal year.