Japan, Germany and Russia at the Beginning of 19-th Century

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The purpose of our research is to grasp comprehensively the cultural exchange among Japan, Germany and Russia at the beginning of 19-th century by examining various cultural and scientific phenomena aroud "Nadezhda". In 1999 we held a meeting for reading research papers on this project with professor Moesner of the University Alaska and collected many materials about Krusenstern, Tilesius, Langsdorf and Rezanov at the libraries and museums in Sapporo, Hakodate and Nagasaki. In 2000 on such materials and several meetings we held an international cultural symposium "Travelsketches as Landeskunde" at which we three investigators and three foreign scholars read reports on this theme from their own points of view. This symposium produced excellent results. In February F.Sondermann went to Germany and Switzerland to collect materials in Europe and exchange views and information with European scholars. This, too, produced excellent results. We are, now, preparing ourselves for the publishing of our papers.