California Study-On the Possibility of Crosscultural Exchange Between Japan, U.K. and U.S.A.

我们的“加州研究”项目一直以加州一体化为目标，通过美国研究和英语研究寻找日、英、美跨文化交流的可能性。我们确信，直到许多研究领域的整合，加州才能完全实现。在研究成果报告中，在三位研究者共同的日本加州理念的基本假设下，我们从各个角度对加州进行了探讨。加藤关注的是“美国加利福尼亚州：其文化地形”；Hayashi关注的是“新墨西哥，通往加利福尼亚的大陆桥——一个墨西哥裔作家和一个墨西哥裔诗人”；野崎则关注“日裔英国人和日裔美国作家与战争——重点关注石黑一雄的《山峦苍茫》”。

California Study, our project, has been aiming at the integration of California in search for the possibility of crosscultural exchange between Japan, U.K. and U.S.A. by both American studies and English studies. It is, we are sure, not until the consolidation of many areas of research that California can be fully realized. In the Report of research results, under the basic assumption of Japanese idea of California common to three investigators, we have discussed California from each perspective. Kato was concerned with "The State of California, U.S.A. : Its Cultural Topography" ; Hayashi was concerned with "New Mexico, the Landbridge to California-a Chicano Writer and a Chicano Poet" ; and Nosaki was concerned with "Japanese-English and Japanese-American Writers and War-Focusing on Kazuo Ishiguro's ‘A Pale View of Hills.'"