Research of Japanese Archives in the United Kingdom

(1)项目目的tour项目旨在对日本海外流散档案的定位与保存进行研究，并将收集到的信息放入我们的“档案与手稿定位数据库”中供研究人员查阅，同时为原始资料的保存与管理做出贡献。(2)研究结果对22家档案机构进行了现场调查，并通过向其他多家机构发放问卷的方式获取了相关信息。结果总结如下：1。搜索到的大部分材料只保存在几个机构中。这些资料的核心是近代早期驻日外交官和学者的私人收藏。我们证实了日本外交记录的存在，这些记录最初属于日本驻伦敦和柏林大使馆，在第二次世界大战期间被查获。迄今为止，似乎还没有对日本在英国的外交和商业档案进行过深入的调查。这样的档案可能还不为人所知或未被利用。许多接受调查的机构将他们的日本藏品作为一个整体保存在一个管理系统中，即包括书籍或图纸。根据档案分析编制详细的清单仍然是他们面临的问题。有一些情况下，材料受到严重损坏或没有得到适当的保护处理，我们已经在适当的地方给出了建议。(3)未来展望。为了宣传研究成果，我们编写了一份报告，准备广泛分发。收集到的数据将在适当的时候加入我们的数据库供公众使用。我们将来可能对有关机构的贡献将是在以下方面与他们合作：a)安排和描述；b)保护。

(1) Purpose of the projectOur project is intended to do research into the location and preservation of Japanese archives flown out ant kept overseas, and put the collected information in our "Archives and Manuscripts Location Data Base" to make it accessible to researchers, while trying to contribute to the preservation and management of the original materials.(2) Result of the researchOn-site surveys for 22 archival institutions was conducted, as well as asking for related information by sending questionnaires to many other institutions. The result is summarized as below.1.Most of the materials searched for are kept in several institutions only.The core of the materials are private collections created by diplomats and scholars who stayd in Japan in early modern period.2.We confirmed the existence of Japanese diplomatic records originally belonged to Japanese embassies in London and Berlin and were seized during the Second World War.3.It seems that no thorough survey concerning Japanese diplomatic and business archives in the United Kingdom has been conducted so far. Such archives which are still unknown and unused might exist.4.Many of the institutions surveyed keep their Japanese collections as a whole in one custodial system, ie including books or drawings, Compiling detailed lists based on archival analyzes still remains problems to them.5.There are some cases that materials suffer serious damage or are given improper conservation treatment, for which we have given advices where appropreate.(3) Future prospect1.In order to publicize the fruit of the research, we have compiled a report to be distributed widely.2.The collected data will be added to our data base for public use in due course.3.Our possible contribution to the institutions conerned in the future will be to cooperate with them in, a) arrangement and description and, b) conservation.