Role of Russian-Slavic Culture in Japanese Modernization

我们的研究小组在10多年前开始了活动，目的是重新审视日本与斯拉夫（主要是俄罗斯）文化之间长期的文化接触历史。尽管我们的成员生活和工作在全国各地，但我们一直都喜欢定期举行学习会，甚至通宵讨论。本学年我们小组活动的最大亮点是一个国际会议“文化接触与互动：1991年5月27日至29日，在凯南高级俄罗斯研究所（美国）的联合赞助下，这次会议实际上是由我们研究组组织的，参加会议的有美国的十位学者和苏联的五位专家，而我们小组的成员是主角。可以肯定地说，我们小组长期以来的成就已赢得国际承认。会议记录不久将在美国以英文出版。这些日语使用者的文字，沿着我们小组成员和客座撰稿人的八篇普通文章，刊登在1992年第三期的论文集《俄罗斯与日本》中。我们意识到，我们的研究工作刚刚获得了全面阐释日本与斯拉夫文化之间文化互动史的线索，因为这个主题是如此的广阔和深刻。要继续做好全面文化工作。

Our research group started its activity more than 10 years ago with the purpose of reexamining the long history of cultural contact between Japan and Slavic (mainly Russian) culture. We have always endeavored to hold study meetings regularly and even overnight discussions, although the members of our group live and work in different places throughout the country.The biggest highlight of our group's activity in this academic year was an international conference "Cultural Contact and Interaction : Russia and Japan 1868-1926" which was held from 27th to 29th May, 1991, under the joint sponsorship of Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (USA), International House of Japan and so on. The conference was virtually organized by our research group and attended by ten scholars from the United States and five specialists from the Soviet Union, while members of our group played the leading part. It may safely be said that our group's achievements of long standing have won an international recognition.The proceedings of the conference are soon to be published in the United States in English. The texts of the Japanese speakers were printed in the third issue of collected papers under the title of "Russia and Japan", 1992, along with eight ordinary articles by members of our group and guest contributors.We realize that our research work has just got a clue to the full-scale elucidation of the history of cultural interaction between Japan and Slavic culture, because the theme is so vast and deep. It is necessary for us to continue a steady work in overall fields of culture.