East Timor "Nation State" : Ethnicity and international Relations

去年共举办了七期讲习班。在上次会议上，我们概述了项目研究的结果，并讨论了对未来活动和研究的展望，特别是申请H.17和18年科学研究补助金。东帝汶独立三年后，在政治、经济和文化等各个方面仍在非殖民化进程中。主要问题是经济发展，这是非殖民化的基础；然而，东帝汶在寻找进步之路方面一直举步维艰。在这种困难的情况下，东帝汶领导人对发达国家，特别是日本，表示了很大的期望。我们分析了关于去年冬天古斯芒总统访问日本的双边(日本和东帝汶)关系。我们发现，有趣的一点是，东帝汶领导人重视与日本的经济关系，并控制了公众对日本的批评，这是由于战时过去的问题造成的，尽管在公开场合一直有“补偿”的要求。关于东帝汶与印尼的关系，在分析了两国的官方文件后，我们得出的结论是，东帝汶一直在“和解”的路线上进行外交。关于民族“融合”，正如我们所预测的那样，随着争取“独立”的部族逐渐消失，与语言和宗教有关的“族群”问题逐渐显露出来。这个问题需要继续分析，并对各种事实进行详细的观察和审查。

Totally seven-workshops were held during the last year. At the last meeting we overviewed the outcome of the project studies and also discussed about the outlook for the future activities and research, particularly the application for the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research for the year of H.17 and 18.After three years from the independence, the Democratic Republic of East Timor is still in the process of decolonization in all aspects including politics, economy and culture. The major problem is economic development, the basis of decolonization ; however, East Timor has been struggling with great difficulties in searching for the way to progress. With such difficult condition East Timor's leaders have indicated their great expectation towards developed countries, especially Japan. We analyzed the bilateral (Japan-East Timor) relationship concerning the visit of President Gusmao to Japan last winter. The interesting point we found is that East Timor's leaders make a point of Economic relationship with Japan and have controlled public criticisms towards Japan, which was resulted from the problem of wartime past even though there has been demand for "compensation" in public. Regarding East Timor's relationship with Indonesia, after analyzing the official documents of two countries we concluded that East Timor has been taking diplomacy on the line of "reconciliation." Concerning national "integration", as we have predicted, the problem of "ethnicity" related to language and religion came to emerge clearly as clan for"independence" faded away. This issue has to be continuously analyzed with the observation and examination of various facts in detail.