JAPANESE JOURNAL ofARCHAEOLOGY
Volume 3 Number 1 September 2015

Editorial .........................................................................................................................................

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Part 1: Original Articles
Importance of Circum-Japan Sea trade networks in the transition from the Yayoi Period to theKofun Period

MIZUMURA Naoto .......................................................................................................................

3Part 2: Reports and Dialogues
Archaeology and cultural heritage in Fukushima today: four years since the Great East JapanEarthquake

KIKUCHI Yoshio ........................................................................................................................... 28
Part 3: Archaeologia Japonica

I. TRENDS IN ARCHAEOLOGY IN JAPAN ......................................................................................... 43
Overview

TAKAKURA Hiroaki ..................................................................................................................... 44
Interdisciplinary Research

FUNAHASHI Kyoko ..................................................................................................................... 46
The Committee for the Protection of Buried Cultural Properties

OGASAWARA Nagataka ............................................................................................................... 48
Palaeolithic

HASHIZUME Jun .......................................................................................................................... 50
Jomon Period

NAKAMURA Oki .......................................................................................................................... 52

Yayoi Period

KUWABARA Hisao ....................................................................................................................... 54
Kofun Period

YAMADA Shunsuke ...................................................................................................................... 57
Ancient

TAKAHASHI Toru & MATSUMOTO Taro ................................................................................. 59
Medieval

SHIMADA Toyoaki ........................................................................................................................ 62
Early Modern

HARA Yuichi .................................................................................................................................. 64
Part 3: Archaeologia Japonica

II. TRENDS IN JAPANESE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES ABROAD .................................. 66
Korean Peninsula

MISAKA Kazunori ......................................................................................................................... 67
China

KAKUDO Ryosuke ........................................................................................................................ 69Northeast Asia

KIYAMA Katsuhiko ....................................................................................................................... 72
Southeast Asia

TAWARA Kanji .............................................................................................................................. 74
Part 3: Archaeologia Japonica

III. RECORD OF THE JAPANESE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ................................... 76
Annual Activities of the Japanese Archaeological Association

TANAKA Kazuhiko ....................................................................................................................... 77
Notes to Contributors ................................................................................................................... 80