International Joint Study of Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1945

本课题主要由四个部分组成；(a)战争期间的地区政权，(b)军事历史，(c)战争期间的文化和社会，以及(d)外交和国际关系。2003年的主要工作是编辑关于战争期间地区政权的文章集合，这些文章被提交给2002年在哈佛大学举行的会议。目前，除了审阅三篇英文论文外，编辑工作基本完成。我们应该在2004年6月将所有手稿交给庆应义塾大学出版社，并在秋季出版。2004年1月，在夏威夷毛伊岛举行了第二届关于战争军事史的国际会议。​在参加这次会议之前，我们每个月开会一次，讨论了大约一年。文集也将于2005年出版。目前，我们每两个月召开一次关于第三个主题“战争时期的文化与社会”的会议，并计划于2005-2006年在日本召开第三次国际会议。

This research project on Sino-Japanese War consists of four parts ; (a)regional regimes during the War, (b)military history, (c)culture and society during the War, and (d)diplomacy and international relations.The major work for 2003 was to edit the collection of articles on the regional regimes during the War which were presented to the conference held at Harvard University in 2002. For the present the editing work was basically completed except for examining three papers written in English. We are supposed to hand over all the manuscripts to the Keio University Press in June, 2004 and to be published in the fall.The second international conference on the military history of the War was held at Maui, Hawaii in January, 2004. About fifty specialists from Japan, USA, China and Taiwan participated in the conference, which included twelve Japanese scholars. Before participating in this conference, we met once every month for discussion for about a year. The collection of articles will also be published in 2005.Presently we hold a meeting about the third topic, "culture and society during the War" once two months, and plan to convene the third international conference in Japan in 2005-2006.