Creating the "Asia-Pacific" Civilization : Seeking Common Values through Mutual Understanding

(1)我们邀请了日本和外国的著名学者、记者和企业家，组织了一系列研究研讨会和讲习班，以调查对“亚太”地区的相互理解和看法。研讨会的成果发表在《亚太研究公报》第6 -8卷中。(2)我们访问了位于日本以及新加坡、澳大利亚和泰国的主要亚太研究机构和基金会，并采访了每个组织的关键人物，了解他们的研究活动。我们的访谈结果记录在我们项目的最终报告中作为数据库。(3)我们派出了四名代表前往美国（威斯康星大学、布鲁金斯研究所和约翰霍普金斯大学）和澳大利亚（悉尼大学、新南威尔士大学、澳大利亚国立大学、莫纳什大学和墨尔本大学）考察我们的项目，并寻求未来在亚太研究方面的合作。(4)我们考虑了“亚太”地区的历史渊源，并于1996年4月举行了一次研讨会。讲习班的成果将在1998年内出版一本书，题为《1930年代亚洲的国际秩序》（日文）。(5)为了促进网络区域研究，我们与美国最大的网络学术协会H-NET合作，与美国学者举行了多次研讨会。

(1) We invited prominent scholars, journalists and businessmen in Japan as well as from foreign countries, and organized the series of research seminar and workshop in order to investigate the mutual understanding and perceptions on the "Asia-Pacific" region. The results of seminars were published as Bulletin of Asia-Pacific Studies, vol.6-8.(2) We visited major Research Institutions and Foundations on the Asia-Pacific Studies, located in Japan as well as in Singapore, Australia and Thailand, and interviewed key persons of each organization about their research activities. The results of our interviews are recorded in The Final Report of our project as data base.(3) We sent four delegates to the United States (University of Wisconcin, The Brookings Institute and Johns Hopkins University) and Australia (University of Sydney, New South Wales University, Australian National University, Monash University and University of Melbourne) to review our project and to seek a future cooperation on Asia-Pacific Studies.(4) We considered the historical origins of "Asia-Pacific" region and held a workshop in April 1996. The results of the workshop will be published as a book, entitled International Order in Asia in the 1930s (in Japanese) within 1998.(5) In order to encourage the Area Studies through Internet, we cooperated with the H-NET,the biggest Internet academic association in the United States, and held several workshps with American scholars.