Japan-Russia Joint Research on the Dispersion of Mongoloids

今年是我们与俄罗斯研究人员从1991年开始的最后一次联合研究活动。1993年夏，两名研究人员G.Ishimoto和K.Suzuki访问了滨海边疆区的“Agzu”和“Krasnii Yar”两个Udeghe人的村庄，以获取用于人类遗传研究的血液样本。结合1991年乌德河、鄂温克和布里亚特地区采血考察所得的基因数据，各类群均表现出北方蒙古人种的高基因频率（ag）和南方蒙古人种的低基因频率（afb^1b^3）。即Evenki，布里亚特和Udeghe基本上属于北方蒙古人种以及我们日本人。1993年8月，S.Ogihara参观了哈瓦罗夫斯克和符拉迪沃斯托克的博物馆，调查了民族志和文字资源，并在哈瓦罗夫斯克地区的乌德盖村“Gvashugi”进行了短暂的实地工作。现在，她正计划与俄罗斯研究人员v.v.d podmaskin和a.f.s startsev一起发表一份题为《乌德河人种学研究（暂定）》的报告，作为这项共同研究活动的成果。1994年冬，kazama先生访问了哈瓦罗夫斯克地区，收集了属于阿尔泰语系的纳内语和奥尔查语的资料。这些材料包括民间故事、传说和歌曲。现在他正准备编写这些语言的语法大纲。

This year was the last of our joint research activities with Russian researchers begun from 1991. In the summer of 1993 two researchers, G.Ishimoto and K.Suzuki, visited two Udeghe people's villages, "Agzu" and "Krasnii Yar", in Primorsky Region to get blood samples for human genetic study. Considering the Gm data about Udeghe and Evenki and Buryat obtained from the blood collecting expedition in 1991, each group shows high frequency of Gm(ag) characterized Northern Mongoloid Population and low frequency of Gm(afb^1b^3) of Southern Mongolid Population. Namely Evenki, Buryat and Udeghe basically belong to the Northern Mongoloid Population as well as we Japanese.And in August of 1993 S.Ogihara visited the museums in Khavarovsk and Vladivostok to survey the ethnographical and written resources, and had a short field work in a Udeghe village "Gvashugi" in Khavarovsk Region. Now she is planning with Russian researchers, V.V.Podmaskin and A.F.Startsev, to publish a report titled "Ethnological Study of the Udeghe (tentative)" as a result of this co-research activity. In winter of 1994 S.Kazama visited Khavarovsk Region to collect materials of Nanay and Olcha languages which belong to Altaic groups of languages. Those materials include folk tales, legends, and songs. Now he is preparing to make up grammatical synopsis of those languages.