A Study of Cold War in North East Asia

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Our research project has focused on the Soviet resources for the Cold War in East Asia, especially from 1949 to 1960s. This time covers from the Communists victory in China and Korean War, San Francisco Treaty and impact of de-Stalinization upon Asian communist regimes. Fortunately, Shimotomai succeeded, by coincidence, in finding Soviet communist International Department documents and other valuable soviet documents, which were made available in 1990s, though Russian archives are now very restrictive. The funds were useful to travel to US(Santa Barbara, Cornel, among others), Republic of Korea(Seoul) and Russian universities and research institutions which held the same orientations and symposiums. Shimotomai's works were already published in Japanese in book form and being translated into Russian and Korea. One of his English articles is being published in the latest issue of the'Bulletin of the Cold War Research' published in W. Wilson Center Washington D.C.in 2008. Also his Japanese works were published in various Japanese academic periodicals.This group could succeeded to communicate with other Japanese Cold War researchers who were rather isolated each other and set up a kind of Japanese Cold War Research net work, among others with Waseda University(Prof. K. Mouri, and T Tanaka), Hokudai(Among others, prof. David Wolf) and Kyuusyuu Univ.(prof. Kan).