Annual Newsletter of the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University

S LAVIC-EURASIANR ESEARCHC ENTER NEWSNo. 22
March 2015

Message from the Director
I began to work as Director of the Slavic-Eurasian
Research Center at the beginning of February 2015. Ten
years have passed, since I served as Director the first time.
The next fiscal year (April 2015 – March 2016) will be
the last year of the second mid-term plan (FY 2010–2015),
when the decision will be made by the Ministry of
Education and Science (MEXT) whether the SRC will bereconfirmed as a Joint Usage Research Center. In 2013,
our Center achieved the highest mark “S” in the interim
evaluation under the directorship of UYAMA Tomohiko,so we are making best efforts to obtain the same result in
Tabata Shinichiro
the term-end evaluation.
The Slavic Research Center was renamed the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center in April
2014. Although some might think this means that our Center has expanded its coverage,
the main focus of our studies remains on the former Soviet sphere of influence. What haschanged is our Center’s strengthened collaboration with institutions and scholars studying
other areas of the world through big projects such as Comparative Research on Major Regional
Powers in Eurasia (FY 2008–2012) and Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies (FY 2009–2013).
In addition, we intend to deepen our commitments both to the Arctic and Northeast Asianstudies. In this, our 60th year since established as the Slavic Institute in 1955, we will takestock and seriously reconsider our profile.
Recently, I have worked as Director of the Helsinki Office of Hokkaido University
established in 2012. I am also serving as Chief Representative of the Hokkaido University
Research Network with North Eurasia that was organized at the beginning of 2014 in orderto facilitate cooperation between colleagues of our University in research in Russia andneighboring areas. We welcome the initiative of our University to promote research related to
the northern areas, including Russia and the Arctic, as one of the special priorities of Hokkaido
University. In 2014, Hokkaido University was selected as a “Super Global University” by the
MEXT and also selected for the “Re-Inventing Japan Project: Support for the Formation ofCollaborative Programs with Russian Universities.” Since our Center has always promoted
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Hokkaido University aiming at more globalization. It should be added that this August we
host the World Congress of Slavic Studies (ICCEES) in Makuhari. This is the first time for
ICCEES to be held in Asia. Our Center will continue to advance Slavic-Eurasian studies
together with colleagues and friends around the world.

2014 Summer International Symposium “ThirtyYears of Crisis: Empire, Violence, and Ideology inEurasia from the First to the Second World War”
On July 10–11, 2014, theSlavic-Eurasian Research Centerorganized an annual summer
symposium entitled “Thirty Yearsof Crisis: Empire, Violence,and Ideology in Eurasia fromthe First to the Second World
War,” together with the project“Comparative Colonial History:
Colonial Administration andCenter-Periphery Interactions inModern Empires” (JSPS, Scientific Research A).
Witnessing the destabilization of the world order, epitomized by the Russo-UkrainianThe speakers of Session 1
conflict and tensions around arising China, many researchers worldwide are engaged in reassessing the First World War
that broke out a century ago. This symposium covered not only WWI but also the Balkan
Wars, as well as various crises in the interwar period and WWII, viewing these 30 years as
a period of continuous crisis. We especially focused on the intersection of war and violenceon the one hand and imperialism and colonialism on the other, discussing the importanceof border regions in the wars between empires, new forms of violence, and colonial politics
that resulted from fluctuation, transformation, and re-activation of imperialism in these 30
years. We also examined various ideas born in reaction to imperialism and anti-colonialism.
On the first day, we held three sessions: “World War I: Battlefields between Empires,”“Muslims in the Falling Russian Empire,” and “Politics of Food and Hunger.” On the secondday, we organized a special seminar on post-Soviet conflicts and three more sessions: “Impactsof World War I on Revolutions and Nationalism,” “Ideas and Politics of Pan-Regionalism,”and “Colonialism from the Interwar Period to World War II.” A total of 98 people participatedin the symposium.
This was the first international symposium held after the former Slavic Research Center
was renamed the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center. Corresponding to the substance of thecenter’s new name, the symposium covered various regions of Eurasia, including Japan,
Korea, Manchuria, Vietnam, the Ottoman Empire, the Balkans, and Germany, while attachingspecial importance to the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. During the two days, weenjoyed intensive and stimulating discussions on history from comparative and international
perspectives.
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Speakers at the Symposium (July 10–11, 2014)Mark von Hagen (Arizona State University, USA) “The Entangled Eastern Front in the First World War andUkraine”
Sahara Tetsuya (Meiji University, Japan) “From Macedonia to Sarajevo: Interaction between IMRO and‘Black Hand’”
Ozan Arslan (Izmir University of Economics, Turkey) “A WWI Front ‘Bon pour l’Orient’: An Analysis of a
Russian War Presumed Won before It Actually Was”
Diliara Usmanova (Kazan Federal University, Russia/SRC) “Between Faith and Allegiance: The Behavior of
Russian Muslims during World War I (1914–1916)” (in Russian)
Zaynabidin Abdirashidov (National University of Uzbekistan/SRC) “National Idea of Turkestani Jadids:
Problems and Solutions”
Uyama Tomohiko (SRC) “Kazakh Intellectuals’ Views on the West and the East, Wars and Civilizations in
the 1910s”
David Marples (University of Alberta, Canada/SRC) “The Politics of the 1932–33 Holodomor (Great Famine)in Ukraine: Recent Debates”
Niccolò Pianciola (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) “Sacrificing the Kazakhs: The Stalinist Hierarchy ofConsumption and the Great Famine in Kazakhstan of 1931–33”
Adachi Yoshihiro (Kyoto University, Japan) “The Nazi-German Food Autarky Policy and ‘Eastward Expansion’: A History of the Agricultural and Food Resource Development of the Third Reich”
Matteo Fumagalli (Central European University, Hungary) “Linkage and Leverage in Post-Soviet Conflicts:
Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and the ‘Black Knights’”Hasegawa Tsuyoshi (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) “The February Revolution of 1917 inPetrograd Revisited: The Duma Committee, the Provisional Government and the Birth of Dual Power”
Ono Yasuteru (Kyoto University, Japan) “The World War I and Korean Independence Movement”
Nosaka-Sahara Junko (Bilkent University, Turkey) “The Caucasian Emigrants in the Ottoman Empire andthe Revolutionary Movements in the Caucasus”
Kawanishi Kosuke (Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan) “Cross-Cultural Aspects of Dai-Tōa Kyōeiken [Great
Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere]”
Viren Murthy (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) “Asia as Romantic Anti-capitalist Utopia: Ōkawa
Shūmei’s Critique of Political Modernity”
Saito Shohei (Hokkaido University, Japan) “N. S. Trubetzkoy and the Lasting Impact of Eurasianism: A
Review of His Article ‘On Racism’ (1935) and Its Reception in the Prager Presse”
Thomas Lahusen (University of Toronto, Canada/SRC) “Interwar Manchuria: Conflicting Memories”
Namba Chizuru (Keio University, Japan) “The Intersection of French and Japanese Colonialism: French
Indochina during World War II”

2014 Winter International Symposium“Border Power! Crosscutting Forces at Playin Eurasia”
The SRC held its semi-annual international symposium for two days on December 4–5,
2014, entitled “Border Power!: Crosscutting Forces at Play in Eurasia.” The Eurasia Unit
for Border Research (UBRJ) played a central role in organizing six panels related to various
aspects of border studies in Japan and abroad. The staff brought together their personal
funds to organize panels and invite foreign guests, since all the big projects (Global COE
Program, etc.) had ended. A local think-tank in Sapporo, the Hokkaido International Exchange
and Cooperation Center (HIECC) also cosponsored the symposium. Eminent scholars andpractitioners were invited from the USA, China, Russia, Norway, Poland, India, South Korea,
and Hungary. Eighty-nine people (131 in total) participated in the symposium for two days.
After Professor Sergey Golunov (SRC, visiting fellow) gave the keynote speech at theoutset, entitled “Practical Relevance as an Issue for the Contemporary Border Studies,” sessions specializing in “border tourism,” “disaster and border” (Day 1), “the northern sea route,”3

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“international relations on
Russia,” and “Soviet interwar
diplomacy” (Day 2) were held.
On the first day, five speakers
held a roundtable discussion,
talking around border issues inarea studies. That the speakers
aspired to ensure cross-linkage
of border studies “theories”
with problem-solving “practices” in their borderland fields
was a distinguishing feature of
the symposium. Eventually,
The tension of the Symposium is over. Now it is time the participants worked out
the future direction of the defor fun!
velopment of “border studies”
in Japan whereby we should incorporate highly accurate and elaborate “description andanalysis” of phenomena in borderlands and across borders with interregional “comparison,”which must be the legitimate basis of both “theory” and “practice” related to borders.
The SRC staff and participants deepened exchanges at the reception at Sapporo Aspen
Hotel on December 4 and the post-symposium excursion program to Otaru and Yoichi on
December 6. We deeply appreciate the participants’ contribution to the symposium and ourstaff’s logistical support. The SRC and UBRJ will further enhance the discussion on borders
and lead the domestic and international communities of border studies.

Chida Tetsuro
Speakers at the Symposium (December 4–5, 2014)

Sergey Golunov (SRC) “Practical Relevance as an Issue for the Contemporary Border Studies”
Hanamatsu Yasunori (Kyushu University, Japan) “Developing Tsushima-Busan Tour: First Model of Border
Tourism in Japan”
Yang Cheng (China East Normal University) “Do National Policies Contribute to Cross-border Tourism
Cooperation? An Analysis of the Great Transformation of the Sino-Russian Tourism Interaction in the
Post-Soviet Era”
Takamatsu Kuniko (Hokkaido University, Japan) “Community Based Tourism as a Potential Tool for Reducing
the Impact of Borders in the Occupied Territories: Tourism Activity Initiatives by Local Communities
in Palestine”
Shim Sang Jin (Kyonggi University, Korea) “Suspension or What? Geo-political Border Landscape and Tourism
Development (The Case of Mt. Geumgang Project)” (co-authored by Anne H. J. Lee)
Asano Toyomi (Chukyo University, Japan) “Indigenous Origins of Fukushima Nuclear Power Stations Relatedwith People’s Migration, Repatriation and Resettlement after WWII”
Dávid Karácsonyi (Geographical Institute, Hungary) “Chernobyl ‘Zone’: Demographic Trajectories after the
Nuclear Disaster”
Round Table “Borders Make Area Studies”: Hachiya Machiko (Kyushu University, Japan), Tamura-Tsuji
Keiko (University of Kitakyushu, Japan), Yamane So (Osaka University, Japan), Krishnendra Meena(Jawaharlal Nehru University, India), and Chida Tetsuro (SRC)
Rune Rafaelsen (Norwegian Barents Secretariat) “The Northern Sea Route: Geopolitical Impact”
Vladimir Semenov (Central Marine Research and Design Institute, Russia) “IMO Future Polar Code, Rulesof Navigation in the Water Area of the Northern Sea Route: Issues Awaiting Settlement”
Otsuka Natsuhiko (North Japan Port Consultants Co., Ltd.) “Northern Sea Route, Its Feasibility and Current Status”
Mikhail Alexeev (San Diego State University, USA) “Blocs, States, and Borders: Explaining Territorial Status
Quo and Revisionism in Russian Foreign Policy”
Marek Menkiszak (Center for Eastern Studies, Poland) “Borders in Flux: Ukraine as a Case Study of Russia’s
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Zhao Huasheng (Fudan University, China) “Sino-Russian Cooperation in Central Asia and the Far East”
Miyazaki Haruka (Hokkaido University of Education, Japan) “The USSR Foreign Policy Seen from Poland:
On E. Romer, ‘The Great Statistical and Geographical Atlas of Poland’ (1921)”
Yaroslav Shulatov (Hiroshima City University, Japan) “Soviet Russia at the Far East: New and Old Approaches
in Foreign Policy”
Alexandr Livshin (Moscow State University, Russia) “Public Mood and Soviet Foreign Policy in 1920s: The
Issue of Trust”

Where Did Ukraine Come From? Where Is
Ukraine Heading For?
In the framework of thejoint symposium held annuallyby Hokkaido University andSeoul National University (SNU),a joint subcommittee meeting
between the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center and the Institute for
Russian East European and Eurasian Studies (IREEES) at SNU
was held on Saturday, December
6th at the SRC conference room.
This time, with the participationof Yi Okyeon, Director of theAmerican Studies Institute (ASI)
Main members
at SNU, and two other members
from ASI, the depth of discussions increased.
The meeting began with an opening address given by Osamu Ieda, Director of the
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, and Shin Beom-Shik, Director of the IREEES, expressing
the significance of continuing the cooperation between both organizations through suchresearch conferences.
The subcommittee meeting consisted of three sessions. In the first session, reports were
given on studies of the Ukrainian Crisis from the perspectives of not only foreign policies of
Russian Federation and the United States, but also the economic structure in Ukraine. It wasinteresting to hear how Korean colleagues associated the issues of the “unrecognized states”
of Eastern Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea by Russia with the issue of unification with
North Korea. While focusing on history in the second session and literature in the third, indepth discussions revolved around how, in addition to the diversity of ethnicities and religionsin Ukraine itself, the origins of nationalism in both Russia and Ukraine are intertwined in acomplicated manner. This in turn inevitably evoked thoughts that the historical issues andterritorial issues between Japan and Korea have become excessively politicized.
On the day of this joint subcommittee meeting, 25 people (10 of which were foreigners)
including graduate students and foreign researchers staying at the SRC participated in themeeting and deepened their friendship while exchanging lively discussions.

Naganawa Norihiro

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Speakers at the Symposium (December 6, 2014)

Shin Beom-Shik (IREEES) “Russia and the Ukraine Crisis”
Hattori Michitaka (SRC) “Political Economy of Ukraine Crisis”
Park Won-Ho (Dept. of Political Science and International Relations, SNU) “The Ukraine Crisis from the
US Perspective”
Hahn Jeong-Sook (IREEES) “Mikhail Hrushevskii’s View of Ukrainian History”
Zaynabidin Abdirashidov (SRC) “A Muslim Voice from Crimea: The Birth and Development of the Turkic
Newspaper Tarjuman” (in Russian)
Lee Kyong-Wan (IREEES) “Christian Reflections on Ukrainian Images at Gogol’s Oeuvres and Trends of Criticism”
Koshino Go (SRC) “Belarusian Literature Written in Russian: A Case of Jewish Writer Grigory Reles”

The JIBSN Annual Seminar Was Held in
Iriomote Island, Taketomi Town, Yaeyama

A scene from the seminar

The Japan International BorderStudies Network (JIBSN) held its
annual meeting in Taketomi Town
on November 14, 2014. The JIBSN
consists of the borderlands local bodies, including Wakkanai, Nemuro,Ogasawara, Tsushima, Goto, andYonaguni, and the border studies
institutions in Hokkaido University,
Chukyo University, and others. The
seminar welcomed almost 60 participants from various Japanese regionswith great local hospitality. The firstsession featured “border tourism”
on Tsushima Island, Fukuoka, andBusan and on the Yaeyama Islands,
Okinawa, and Taiwan. Environmental topics regarding maritime borders
were also a focus of the discussion.
All of the participants fully enjoyed
the local food and traditional performance organized by the residents.
The next seminar is planned to takeplace in Nemuro City facing the“Northern Territories” and Russia in
February of 2016.

Iwashita Akihiro

Traditional dance

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Report on the Sixth East Asian Conference
on Slavic Eurasian Studies 2014 Seoul
On June 27–28, 2014, I gave apresentation at the Sixth East Asian
Conference on Slavic Eurasian Studies
2014, Seoul. The theme of the 2014conference was “Building a EurasianCorporation: Dynamism and Tasks,”
and in this conference all six session
and 29 panels were prepared. The
presentation by Ukrainian embassy staff
attracted the particular attention of theparticipants.
In this conference, most of theparticipants were from not only Korea
but also Central Asian countries, Russia,
China, and Japan. On other hand, there Barack Obama Hall (Hankuk University ofwere only few participants from Europe Foreign Studies)(from Germany, Italy, and Hungary).
One of the features of this conference is that many speakers made their presentations in
Russian. For example, for some panels, speakers made their presentations in Russian despite
their own papers being written in English, because there were many Russian participants. I
was impressed that, although this was a large international conference, this conference was
not organized according to “Western” standards but was also of “Eurasian” style. On theother hand, I found this conference a little difficult because I am not a Russian specialist.
In addition, the main hall of this conference was the Barack Obama Hall in Seoul Hankuk
University of Foreign Studies. It was interesting that a “Eurasian (mainly Russian)” conference
was held in a hall named after a US president.
In this conference, I gave the presentation on “The Social History of Czech Socialistic
Housing Complexes,” especially on the huge socialist housing complexes built by thecommunist government during 1970–80s, which means after the “Prague Spring” of 1968. In
this presentation, I analyzed how the inhabitants of these huge housing complexes evaluated
the governance of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia before and after the 1989 “Velvet
Revolution.” Through this research, I expected that we could open the way towards a new
historic viewpoint. Concretely, we could deal with the socialist era not only as a political orjournalistic theme but also as “history.” Not only in the Czech Republic but also in every
Eastern European country can we easily find huge monotone housing complexes built in thisera. I used the newspapers published from 1989 to 1991 by the local communist organ in thehuge housing area in Prague called “South Town” (now Prague 10 district). The aim of thispresentation was to show the continuity and discontinuity of housing policy before and after
1989. In particular, I tried to show the difference in policy between the new citizens’ parties
and the Communist Party and how inhabitants of huge housing complexes evaluated thechange in policy by the analyzing the result of the 1990 election. I had planned to compare
huge Czech housing complexes and Japanese housing complexes built since the 1960s, but
unfortunately I was unable to explain this comparison. I think that “huge housing complexes”
is an important topic because Japan and Eastern Europe had the common experience ofeconomic growth and housing complexes was one of the most visible symbols of economic
growth after WWII.
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In my presentation, Prof. Kim Kyu-chin (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies), who
has taught the Czech and Slovak languages, was a discussant. In this conference, mostparticipants were specialists in Russian and Eurasian studies, so it was a valuable experience
for me to get to know some Czech specialists. On the other hand, there were few participants
who had studied Eastern European history. The next task for me will be to organize a panel
to compare Eastern European and Japanese housing complexes after WWII.

Morishita Yoshiyuki

Professor Matsuzato Kimitaka Left the SRC
Professor Matsuzato Kimitaka
left the SRC at the end of March 2014,
moving to the Graduate School of Legaland Political Studies at the Universityof Tokyo. Professor Matsuzato joined
the SRC in October 1991, and served as
director from April 2006 to July 2008. He
is well known for his original and unique
works on the history of the Russian Empire
and post-Soviet politics, especially thepolitics in Russian regions and unrecognized states in the Black Sea rim, basedon extensive archival and field research.
He has also greatly contributed to theinternationalization of Slavic and EurasianProf. Matsuzato at his final lecturestudies in Japan, leading the International
Training Program for Young Researchers (ITP, FY 2008–2012) and the campaign to hostthe ICCEES (International Central and Eastern Europe Research Council) World Congressin Makuhari in 2015.
The SRC held Professor Matsuzato’s final lecture of on March 25, 2014, entitled “Slavic
and Eurasian Area Studies after the Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Use of Primary Sources
and Internationalization.” There, he provided an overview of the wide range of topics hehas studied, also speaking of his memories of his two years’ stay in Leningrad during his
graduate student years. In the question-and-answer session, many participants asked him
about the situation in Crimea where he had just conducted field research. We wish Professor
Matsuzato successful continuation of his state-of-the-art research at his new place of work.

Uyama Tomohiko

Appointment of Professor Sengoku Manabu
Sengoku Manabu was appointed professor on October 1, 2014. Born in 1964, he
graduated from the Faculty of Liberal Arts Liberal Arts Department of Tokyo University in
1987 and then entered Tokyo University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (majoring
in international relations). His association with the Center started many years ago, andafter completing his graduate studies in 1995, he worked at the Center for nine months as
the first part-time researcher at the COE for Scientific Research on Priority Areas. He wasappointed to the Faculty of Law at Seinan Gakuin University in Fukuoka from 1996 as8

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the head instructor teaching comparative and international
politics.
His major covers comparative political economics,
comparative welfare politics, and methodology of comparison, while his main research focus in recent years has been
comparative analysis in the reorganization of welfare systems
in the post-socialist period of nations in Central and Eastern
Europe, regional-based comparative analysis of economic
policy in emerging democracies, etc. He is excited about
conducting research focusing on welfare policy comparisonscovering all post-socialist nations, as well as multifaceted
comparisons of the political economies of the Slavic regions,
Eurasian regions, and other regions at the center.

Ieda Osamu

Prof. Sengoku

Our Current Staff
Ieda Osamu: Professor, Economic History of Eastern Europe; Modern Hungarian History;
Environment in Slavic Eurasia
Iwashita Akihiro: Professor, Eurasia Border Studies
Koshino Go: Associate Professor, Russian and Belarusian Literature
Mochizuki Tetsuo: Professor, Russian Literature
Naganawa Norihiro: Associate Professor, Modern History of Central Eurasia; Islam in
RussiaNomachi Motoki: Associate Professor, Slavic Linguistics; General Linguistics
Sengoku Manabu: Professor, Comparative Politics and Political Economy, Welfare Politics
of Central and East European Countries
Tabata Shinichiro: Professor, Russian Economy and Comparative Economic Studies;
Director of the SRC
Uyama Tomohiko: Professor, Central Asian History and Politics; Comparative Imperial
StudiesDavid Wolff: Professor, Russian, Soviet, and Emigre; Siberia and the Far East; The Cold
War; Northeast Asian Region Construction
Yamamura Rihito: Professor, Comparative Economics; Agrarian Economy in Slavic-Eurasian Countries

Assistant Professors:
Chida Tetsuro: Soviet History, Environmental History
Goto Masanori: Historical Formation of Scientific and Religious Knowledge, and Economic
Activities of People in Post-Socialist Countries
Morishita Yoshiyuki: Central and Eastern European History
Takahashi Sanami: Russian Orthodoxy in Soviet Culture

Foreign Visitors Fellow 2014 (June)–2015 (March)
Zaynabidin Abdirashidov: The Idea of Freedom in Fitrat’s Reformist Thought: From“Freedom through Islam” to “Freedom through Atheism”
Sergey Golunov: Communicating Border Crossing Issues: Cases of the EU’s Borders with
Russia and Ukraine
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Thomas Lahusen: Theme Park Manchuria: Memories of the Global AgeDavid Marples: Responses to the “Holodomor” in Eastern Ukraine and Russia: Historical
Memory and Identity Politics
Irina Papkov: The Civil War That Will Not End: The Politics of Russian National Consolidation in the 21st Century
Diliara Usmanova: Manuscript and Old Books Expedition at Kazan University (1963–2010):
Collecting Knowledge, Forming Traditions

Research Fellows:
Anastasia Fedorova: Japanese Cinema, Soviet Cinema, Transnational Cinematic Exchange
Itani Hiroshi: History of Sakhalin and Karafuto (Culture and Architecture)
Kanayama Koji: Soviet Science and Technology History
Karashima Hiroyoshi: Anthropology, Study of Mongolian Pastoralists
Nakayama Taisho: Migration History of Northeast Asia: Modern and Contemporary Historyof Sakahlin/Karafuto
Takahashi Minori: International Relations, Area Studies (Denmark, Greenland, and the Arctic)

Library and Information Service Staff:
Osuga Mika: Research Associate, Publications
Tonai Yuzuru: Associate Professor, SRC Head Librarian

Ongoing Cooperative Research Projects
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Excluding “Grants-inAid for JSPS Fellows” and “Grants-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results Scientific Literature)”

Scientific Research A
Headed by Uyama Tomohiko: “Comparative Colonial History: Colonial Administration
and Center-Periphery Interactions in Modern Empires” (2013–17)
Headed by Iwashita Akihiro: “Reconstructing International Relations through BorderStudies” (2014–17)
Scientific Research B
Headed by Ieda Osamu: “Destruction and Reconstruction of Human and Natural
Environments in Post-catastrophe Areas: Chernobyl, Ajka, and Fukushima” (2012–15)
Headed by Koshino Go: “Memoryscape of War in Socialist Countries: The Soviet
Union, China and Vietnam” (2013–2014)
Headed by Nomachi Motoki: “A Comprehensive Study of the Slavic Micro Literary
Languages after the Revolution of Eastern Europe” (2013–2016)
Headed by Hara Teruyuki: “Modern History of the Sakhalin Island (Karafuto), as a
Borderland Colony” (2013–16)
Scientific Research C
Headed by Naganawa Norihiro: “Revolutionary Empire: A Biography of Karim
Khakimov (1892–1937)” (2013–16)
Headed by Komoto Yasuko: “An Examination of ‘Lamaist’ Visual Materials in Modern
Japan” (2012–16)
Headed by Goto Masanori: “Anthropological Study of Entrepreneurship in Post-Socialist
Countries” (2014–16)
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Headed by Itani Hiroshi: “Characters and Social Influences of the ‘Hokushin’ (advanceto the north) Theory in Empire of Japan: In the Cases of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands”(2014–16)
Challenging Exploratory Research
Headed by Koshino Go: “Comparative Study on War Narratives in Belarus, Ukraine,and Sakhalin” (2012–14)
Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists A
Headed by Takahashi Minori: “Self-government and Climate Change: ‘Autonomy inExternal and Internal Relations’ in Greenland” (2014–17)
Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists B
Headed by Maeda Shiho: “Gender Studies on the Representations of War Memory in
Russian Culture in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century” (2012–14)
Headed by Sato Keiji: “The Middle Range Theory of Ethnic Political Mobilization:
Case-studies of Mobilization by Non-titular Nations in Former Soviet Republics” (2013–2014)
Headed by Chida Tetsuro: “Environmental History of the Aral Sea Basin after the WorldWar II: Human Activities and Ecological Crisis” (2013–16)
Headed by Honda Akiko: “The Role of the Media in Totalitarianization of Soviet
Architecture” (2014–17)
Research Activity Startup
Headed by Kanayama Koji: “The Development of Scientific and Technology Theories
in the Period of 15-years War of Japan” (2013–14)
Other Projects
Headed by Tabata Shinichiro: “Russia’s Final Energy Frontier: Sustainability Challengesof the Russian Far North” (2014-2016) (Funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Scienceand the Academy of Finland)
Headed by Ieda Osamu: “Post-Catastrophe Cultural Psychotherapy: Lessons from
Chernobyl and Fukushima” (2013-2015) （Toyota Foundation）
Headed by Iwashita Akihiro: “Border Tourism: Local Initiatives and the Making ofa Region” (2013-2015) (Topic-Setting Program to Advance Cutting-Edge Humanities andSocial Sciences Research, Responding to Real Society, funded by the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science)

Visitors from Abroad
Kim Byung-yeon (Seoul National University, Korea), July–August 2014: The North
Korean Economy: Current Evaluation and Future Integration
Igor Botoev (Buryat State University, Russia), August 2014–June 2015: Memory of
the Russo-Japanese War in Russian War Literature in Translation: A Sociological Viewpoint

Guest Lecturers from Abroad[SRC-FFUB Joint Workshop on Serbian Linguistics] Rajna Dragičević (Belgrade
University, Serbia), “Лингвокультурологический и семантический анализ концептов
«Восток» и «Запад» в сербском языке”; Prvoslav Radić (Belgrade University), “On the
History of the Oriental Lexicon in Serbian”; Divna Tričković (Belgrade University), “The11

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Grammatical Category of Temporality in Serbian and Japanese: A Contrastive Analysis”;
Ljudmila Popović (Belgrade University), “Лексические и грамматические показатели
эвиденциальности в сербском языке в сравнении с другими славянскими языками,”February 5, 2014.
[East-Central European Workshop: Southeastern Europe from Hungarian Perspective]
Pap Norbert (University of Pécs, Hungary), “Muslims in Hungary”; Sokcsevits Dénes(University of Pécs), “Croatians in Hungary”; Reményi Péter (University of Pécs), “Integration and Disintegration in Kosovo”; Bíró László, “Yugoslav Integration and Macedonia(1918–1939)”; Kitanics Máté, “The Slavs in Hungary from the 15th Century to the 18th
Century,” May 27, 2014.
[Hokkaido University Research Network with North Eurasia] Vasily Bogoiavlenskii(Oil & Gas Research Institute, Russia), Vladimir Pavlenko (Arkhangelsk Scientific Center,
Russia), Alexander Georgiadi (Institute of Geography, Russia), “Collaborative Research
Activities in the Arctic Circle of Russia,” July 7, 2014.
[The 10th Japanese-Thai Research Seminar at the SRC in Sapporo] Pasuk Phongpaichit(Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), “Inequality in Thailand and Japan”; Choosit Choochat(Chiangmai Rajabhat University, Thailand), “Tourism and Sufficiency Economy: Alternativefor Peasant Society”; Nualnoi Treerat (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), “Media andSocial Movements in Asia”; Christopher Baker “Ayutthaya as an Urban Society”; Plubplung
Kongchana (Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand), “Phrik (Chili): A Fragment of Ayutthaya
History”; Pornsan Watanangura (Chulalongkorn University), “Orient in Occident: On the
Reception of Buddhism in Europe with Special Reference to German Literature and Musicin the Early Modern Age,” July 13–14, 2014.
[SRC Seminar “Economic Development of Regional Powers in Eurasia: Dialog between
Researchers of Russia and India”] Srabani Roy Choudhury (Jawaharlal Nehru University,
India), “Indian Consumer Profile: Business Opportunities for Japan,” July 19, 2014.
Aya Fujiwara, “Euromaidan: Responses of the Government of Canada and Ukrainian
Diaspora,” July 29, 2014.
Umut Korkut (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK), “Turkey as a Regional Power and
Her Role in the Middle East and Slavic Eurasia,” July 30, 2014.
Gulzat Egemberdieva (University of Toronto, Canada), “The Complementary Use ofDocumentary Filmmaking and Archival Research in the History of Women’s Liberation and
the Practice of ‘Bridal Kidnapping’ in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan,” August 26, 2014.
Gilles Campagnolo (CNRS, Aix-Marseilles School of Economics, France), “Questioning
Liberalism In Between East and West,” September 19, 2014.
Paul du Quenoy (American University of Beirut, Lebanon), “From Steppe Conflict toImperial Contest: The First Russian Designs on the Ottoman Levant, 1768–1774,” October
2, 2014.
Ewa Sławkowa (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland), “The Role of Proper Names
in Poetic Text. The Case of Czesław Miłosz, the 1980 Nobel-Prize Winner,” October 29, 2014.
Jolanta Tambor (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland), “The Problems of Codification of the Silesian Language,” October 29, 2014.
Pavel Minakir (Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of the Siberian Branchof the RAS), “The Russian Far East: Strategies and Reality,” November 26, 2014.

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A Summer in Hokkaido
David Marples (University of Alberta, Canada/Foreign Fellow, SRC, 2014)
My time in Hokkaido University at the Slavic-Eurasian ResearchCenter was not my first visit to Japan.
Far from it. I had been about eighttimes before, to various places in
Honshu and to Okinawa. My wife
Aya was born in Kobe where herparents and brother still live. So I cansay honestly that, following a seriesof communications with Osuga-Sanof the SRC, I had an idea what toexpect when we arrived at Chitose
airport, via Tokyo, on June 1, after avery long journey from Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada.
Otaru (the author and his spouse Aya)
Sapporo is the capital and by far
the largest city in Hokkaido. It is a bustling, busy city, interspersed with spacious parks anda central region, Odori, containing a pleasant green area, which is the site in the summer ofa hospitable beer garden, under the shadow of the TV tower. Public transport is efficient,and it is also easy to get around, as thousands do, by bicycle, though cyclists (and I becameone) use sidewalks rather than the roads, finding their way around pedestrians.
Aya and I opted to find our own residence, at an apartment overlooking Nakajima Park.
It was a beautiful spot and we were on the seventh floor with views to Mount Moiwa in
one direction and over the park in the other. The sunsets were extraordinary. Our apartment
had two bedrooms, though only the main lounge adjoining the smaller bedroom was air
conditioned. The University of Hokkaido is four stops on the subway from Nakajima Park soin the morning I had a pleasant walk by the lake initially and through the university grounds
at the end.
The SRC is housed in a complex of buildings overlooking some tennis courts. The easiest
access for a newcomer is through the library, but eventually I found some short cuts. Staff was
friendly and helpful. My host, Koshino-San, who studies Belarusian and Russian literature,
gave me a tour of the library and the SRC. I was provided with a large office on the fifth (thehighest) floor, with a computer, sofa, coffee table, and several chairs as well as a main desk.
The fifth floor housed both full-time faculty and visiting fellows. I got to know Tabata-San
and his wife Tomoko-San—we have mutual friends in the United States—Mochizuki-San,and fellow Canadian Thomas Lahusen from the University of Toronto, who was working ona documentary film on Harbin.
The SRC director, Osamu Ieda, was a wonderful host, as was his wife Yuko-San, whohosted several social occasions that allowed Aya and I to meet the graduate students andjunior professors. Most events took place directly in his office on the second floor. There
we met a former director, an anthropologist who regaled us with stories about the Ainu on
Hokkaido and southern Sakhalin Island (Russia) just to the north. He had made a study ofBronislaw Pilsudski (brother of Josef), who spent his time in exile studying the lifestyles of
the Ainu (he lived in an Ainu village and married an Ainu woman), the aboriginal peopleof Japan, who eventually succumbed to Imperial Japanese expansion and occupation of thelarge northern island.
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If one visits Hokkaido University in the summer, one will note two distinct features. Firstof all, there are the crows. These are not North American crows, but huge birds with vicious
beaks. And they congregate in vast numbers. It is a sight that makes Alfred Hitchcock’s oldhorror film The Birds pale by comparison. And they were nesting, which obviously madethem hostile to intruders. Never in my life had I imagined that crows would attack humans,
but they did, and frequently, dive bombing in pairs. Accessing the Center through the groundfloor entrance became quite hazardous until the university authorities removed all the nests.
The fearless crow army then reassembled by the tennis courts. And that leads me to thesecond feature.
Students gathered daily on the courts. They played some game that certainly resembled
tennis. But it was more complicated. It involved sometimes six people at a time, along withcheerleading factions of both genders, who at times were leaping up and down like dimented
pogo dancers. The players also had a code of bellowing. It sounded like something between
a ram and an angry bull, and the first bellow would be echoed by a chorus of others. These
calls began from early morning until the time I left my office at night, often unaffected bytorrential downpours of rain. Tabata-San apparently complained at one point but was informedthat the bellowing was a student tradition and that he simply didn’t comprehend the custom.
Neither did I, frankly, but I learned to live with it.
We soon explored the fascinating city. Sapporo is a winterresort, but the summers are alsointeresting, with various activities:
spectacular firework displays,
jazz and folk concerts, shrine
festivals, concerts in Nakajima
Park, which houses an impressive
concert hall, ramen restaurants
and night clubs in Susukino, andof course cold beer under the sun,with the famous Japanese beers on
offer: Sapporo, Asahi, and Kirin.
We got summer passes for Mount
Moiwa, and I went there threetimes in all, using the two cablecars to the summit and enjoying
Mount Tengu
the wonderful views of the city,
both at daytime and at night.
Ieda-Sensei and Yuko-San invited Aya and I to their house in Otaru, a short train rideto the west, on the Sea of Japan. We began at the fish market, with its extraordinary displayof maguro, uni, and kani—we later enjoyed trying hakkaku.
While in Otaru, I accompanied Ieda-Sensei and a group of students on an excursion,
which started with Mount Tengu—another cable car ride—where there was a museum on
the top. I had met Tengu in Kyoto, but here his legend seemed to be more elaborate and themuseum contained a host of Tengus, all with the usual oversized snout, a sort of Japaneseversion of Pinnochio, though in Tengu’s case a source of good fortune, if tales are to bebelieved. Together with the students I made a wish by stroking the nose of a Tengu sculpture
outside the cable car building. Incidentally the legendary Tengu supposedly comprised
characteristics of both a human and a bird of prey, which might help to explain the crowphenomenon described above.
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The views over the Japan Sea
were unforgettable. In the distancea ferry was transporting passengers
south to Kyoto, a trip of some 30 hours
according to Ieda-Sensei. To the northand west lay Russia. I was able at last
to take stock of my companions. Three
were Japanese (including Morishita-San
and Kanayama-San) and three were
Chinese, along with Ieda-Sensei andhis daughter Ryoko-San. The Chinese
spoke Japanese and a little English.
After the mountain we took busses
around, visiting a replica of a herring
At Lake Toyafactory some distance from the main
town of Otaru, close to the aquarium and—after our last proposed tour, the building where
delegates of Russian and Japan had met after the Russo-Japanese war of 1904–05, turned out
to be locked—somewhat bizarrely to the only mosque in Hokkaido, where we were greetedby two men originally from Pakistan. They supplied us with coke and 7-Up, which we drankon the carpet of the mosque, facing Mecca, while the daughter of the older man, who had
been educated in the United States, explained the workings of the mosque.
In August, Aya and I rented a car and visited Lake Toya, an area of spectacular volcanic
mountains and lakes just two hours away from Sapporo, eating some wonderful food at theWindsor Hotel, located on the top of a hill. We went to Neboribetsu with its fascinating
onsen and bear park high up in the mountains, a surreal environment where bears stand on
their hind legs and demand food, which visitors can purchase from a machine for 300 yen.
Both Aya and I benefited from the expertise of fellow scholars and the resources of the
SRC. The university library houses an impressive collection of Slavic materials, and evenfor Ukraine, the area on which I was working, the resources were equal to those of my home
university, meaning better than most libraries of North America. They took some finding at
first, but the search proved worthwhile. A highlight for me was the monthly graduate seminar,organized by Saito-San, and attended by Assel Bitabarova from Kazakhstan, Karashima-San,
Goto-San, Yoshiyuki-San, Kawazu-San, and an African PhD student in Economics, John
Kalenga.
In July, the SRC held a major symposium on thirty years of crisis in Eurasia, 1914–45,
with visiting scholars from USA, Italy, Turkey, and other parts of Japan. It was an invigorating
and intense two days, accompanied by field trips to the Ainu Museum and the Historical
Village of Hokkaido (Kaitaku no Mura), an open-air museum of buildings from various
parts of Hokkaido representing the period (1868–1926). Our hosts, interpreting on the bus
in entertaining versions of English, were Uyama-San and Chida-San from the SRC.
Aya also presented a paper close to her current research interests, on Canada’s response
to Euromaidan in Ukraine, and the role of the Ukrainian community. In general having Aya
with me made life incredibly simple. I was able to visit places and understand things thatwould have been incomprehensible had I come alone. She also fit in well with the SRC and
its activities, attending symposia and joining in discussions. But more often she could befound in the plush Daimaru store close to campus.
Working at the SRC is a one-time opportunity to get a project done in ideal surroundings
and largely without interruption. Indeed, the professors are usually closeted in their officers,
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General Office, who never failed
to help, no matter how mundane
the question. Aya and I became
good friends with she and herhusband Goto-San, a cultural
anthropologist at the SRC. The
relatively short time I had at theSRC—essentially the summer—
proved to be incredibly productive.
I was able to finish a major article
and numerous shorter ones, as wellas complete most of the editing fora book on Euromaidan in Ukraine.
Social occasions were also
notable, including the SRC sumPaul’s Cafe
mer barbecue, two outings with thestudents—the second ended in a Ramen restaurant near Sapporo JCR station—a frenetic gameof fussball one Saturday morning with Tabata-San and Naomi Hyunjoo Chi (a Vancouver-bornwoman of Korean parentage who teaches at the university), and a celebration of Canada Day
organized by Thomas Lahusen and myself in a German-style pub drinking Loewenbrau outof pewter mugs attended by both faculty and students.
Our final social event was a dinner at our apartment with Sanami Takahashi, the only
female faculty member at the SRC (as well as the youngest) and her husband Yu Tachibana,a scholar of Azerbaijan. It took place on August 28, the day before I left the SRC. Sanami
presented me with a cake adorned a message in icing that said: “Thank you Marples-San.”
Yet I felt I should be the one doing the thanking, to my hosts and new friends in Sapporo,to this idiosyncratic country with its complex past and merger of traditional and modern,remarkable politeness and formality contrasting with wild abandon on other occasions.
Arigatou gozaimashita and see you again soon!

Historical Legacies and the Outbreak of the
Ukrainian Civil War
Irina Papkov (Georgetown University, USA/Foreign Fellow, SRC, 2014)
The outbreak of any civil war these days is accompanied by the appearance of pundits
who wring their hands, furrow their brows and attempt to explain to the CNN audience whatwent wrong. The case of Ukraine is no different. From the beginning of the conflict, experts
have presented various arguments as to the reasons why a population previously united for
centuries by a common history and high rates of intermarriage should suddenly implode inviolence.
Two competing explanations dominate the public sphere, one driven by Russianstate-controlled media, the other by an outraged “liberal media” in the United States andEurope. The broadly-accepted narrative in the West is almost self-evident; Putin is an evil
dictator and is out to prevent Ukraine from joining its rightful place among democratic,
Western nations; the civil conflict in the Donbass is entirely his fault. The counter-narrative
coming from Russian media is equally fantastic: in this view, the war is the fault of the evil
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West, which has always been out to destroy Russia andis now pursuing this aim by wresting Ukraine from
Russia’s traditional sphere of influence.
Working quietly in their university or instituteoffices, professional scholars and experts on the former
Soviet region are producing more nuanced arguments,
focusing on issues of linguistic and ethnic identity,intermixed with some acknowledgment of the role ofeconomic interests. A glance at existing social science
theory about the causes of civil war suggests that they
are right to reject simplistic explanations privileging
either an “evil Putin” or an equally “evil West,”
primarily because the causes of civil war appear to becorrelated to domestic causes much more than to theactions of pernicious outside powers.
Of the possible domestic causes of civil wars,
The author
existing scholarship leans in the direction of supporting
Paul Collier and his colleagues at the World Bank, who argue that economic causes (referred
to in this model as “greed”) are primary. While agreeing in principle with the idea that there
are economic factors at play in the Ukrainian situation—particularly the interests of various
local oligarchs—this picture is too simple. Any comprehensive analysis of the current tragedy
in the Donbass should include an examination of the way in which historical legacies are
shaping the mentality of the people involved in the conflict, acting as blinders preventing
them from understanding the other side’s viewpoint and from achieving a lasting peacefulresolution.
It is a well-known cliché that the “Russian and Ukrainian peoples share a common
history.” The manner in which this history is interpreted, however, varies widely acrossRussia and the diverse Ukrainian regions. In a way that is most relevant for the present civil
war, this difference of interpretation especially concerns the experience of World War II.
The dominant narrative in Russia is quite simple: World War II was “The Great Fatherland
War,” which united all the peoples of the USSR in an epic fight against German fascism,and which was so great a victory that it absolves Stalin for his otherwise heinous treatmentof his own citizens. Historical facts that don’t fit into this scheme—i.e., examples of Soviet
citizens collaborating with the Germans or worse yet, fighting on their side—are explained,
if at all, by reference to those citizens’ treasonable nature, and, in the case of Ukraine andthe Baltics, by the existence of local fascist movements. Generally speaking, however, thetraditional May 9th celebrations across both the Russian Federation occur without any mentionof collaboration at all.
In Ukraine, the situation has been more complex. In much of the eastern and southernparts of the country, the Russian narrative predominates. For Ukrainians living in thoseregions—whether they consider themselves to be ethnic Russians, so-called “Russian-speaking
Ukrainians” or ethnic Ukrainians—the memory of World War II is indeed of a conflict inwhich they, their fathers and/or their grandfathers heroically defeated fascist Germany. In
western Ukraine, however, the war is remembered quite differently, as a time during which
the Ukrainian people, led by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), banded
together to fight for national independence, both against the Nazis and against Stalin. WorldWar II is interpreted as a tragic time in which the Red Army ultimately crushed aspirations ofnational liberation, achieved only fifty years later with the collapse of the USSR. At the sametime, the narrative in eastern and southern Ukraine presents the OUN and its leader Stepan
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Bandera as unequivocal supporters of German-style fascism, and therefore unacceptable
candidates for the role of national heroes.
The role of these conflicting interpretations in the current Ukrainian crisis is obvious.
In the early years after independence, the Ukrainian leadership understood that it ruled overa country divided not only ethnically and linguistically but by very different understandingsof past history, and did not actively work to impose one version of the national narrative
over the entire country. The election of Yushchenko in the wake of the Orange Revolution
brought about an important change, as he began to rather overtly privilege the Western
Ukrainian version of World War II. For the eastern and southern regions, this signified
government support for sympathizers with Nazi Germany and a negation of their own
families’ sacrifices in the fight for a fascism-free Europe. Ten years later, the very visible
glorification of the OUN by some participants of the 2014 overthrow of Yanukovich only
served to convince important segments of the eastern and southern Ukrainian citizenry thata post-Maidan government would impose a Western-Ukrainian narrative upon them. The
logical consequences of this appeared to be the imposition of fascism in Ukraine and Hitler’s
victory from beyond the grave.
Untangling this web of mutually-exclusive versions of relatively recent history is atremendous challenge. However, for Ukraine to emerge from its present civil conflict withany sense of national unity (a prerequisite for a successful future), the past must be dealt
with in a conciliatory way. One possible way forward is the recognition that both versions
are historically simply inaccurate.
On the one hand, the “unifying” story preferred by the current Russian regime andwidely accepted in eastern and southern Ukraine does not hold up under close historicalanalysis. Collaboration by Soviet citizens with the Germans was widespread and profound,to the point where approximately 20% of soldiers serving in the German army against theSoviet Union were themselves of Soviet origin. While some existing scholarship reduces
the phenomenon to an anti-Soviet revolt by ethnic minorities living on the periphery of the
USSR (Balts, Ukrainians, Georgians, etc.), recent investigations demonstrate conclusively
that a significant segment of even the ethnically Russian population saw the Germans as aforce meant to liberate them from Stalin’s regime and acted accordingly.
On the other hand, the version in which the OUN was a non-fascist patriotic organization
leading the Ukrainian people in a heroic fight against both Germany and the USSR is also
deeply flawed. It is true that, after 1943, the OUN’s armed wing did engage the Germans inarmed combat. At the same time, historical evidence clearly indicates that the leadership of
the OUN was profoundly influenced by Nazi ideology and that Bandera and his cohorts did
initially intend for an independent Ukrainian state to form an integral part of Hitler’s “NewEurope.” In this newly liberated Ukraine, there would be no room for anyone other than
Ukrainians, meaning the extermination or at the very least the banishment of Poles, Jews andRussians living on its territory. The fact that the Germans themselves did not want an independent Ukraine and had Bandera arrested in 1941 led eventually to a reconsideration of the
OUN’s desire to ally itself with Germany, and to the above mentioned armed confrontations.
This does not, however, erase the uncomfortable reality that OUN’s ideology remained fascistat its core and that its armed activities involved war crimes against both minorities and those
Ukrainians who did not agree with the OUN’s vision of independent Ukraine.
Mutual recognition of this tangled history—perhaps beginning with truth-seeking
commissions comprised of historians from both sides of the current conflict and continuingwith an educational campaign in the post-conflict phase—would go a long way towards
ensuring Ukrainian national reconciliation.
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Publications (2014)
Slavic Studies, no. 61, 2014, refereed journal of the SRC (in Japanese with summaries
in English or Russian).
Acta Slavica Iaponica vol. XXXIV, 2014, refereed journal of the SRC (in English andRussian).
Acta Slavica Iaponica vol. XXXV, 2014, refereed journal of the SRC (in English andRussian).
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center Review Report, no. 7, 2014.
Tomasz Kamusella and Motoki Nomachi, eds., “The Multilingual Society Vojvodina:Intersecting Borders, Cultures and Identities,” Slavic Eurasia Papers no. 6 (Sapporo: SRC,
2014) (in English and Russian).
Uyama Tomohiko, ed., “The Pleasures of Comparative Research,” Slavic Eurasia Papers
Special Issue (Sapporo: SRC, 2014) (in Japanese).
Elżbieta Kaczmarska and Motoki Nomachi, eds., “Slavic and German in Contact:
Studies from Areal and Contrastive Linguistics,” Slavic Eurasian Studies no. 26 (Sapporo:
SRC, 2014) (in English).
Osamu Ieda, ed., “Transboundary Symbiosis over the Danube: EU Integration between
Slovakia and Hungary from a Local Border Perspective,” Slavic Eurasian Studies no. 27(Sapporo: SRC, 2014) (in English).
So Yamane and Norihiro Naganawa, eds., “Regional Routes, Regional Roots? Cross-Border Patterns of Human Mobility in Eurasia,” Comparative Studies on Regional Powers no.
14 (Sapporo: SRC, 2014) (in English).
Mochizuki Tetsuo, ed., “Russia, China, India: Intercultural Dialogue,” Series: Comparative Studies on Regional Powers no. 6 (Tokyo: Minerva Shobo, 2014) (in Japanese).
Eurasia Border Review vol. 5, no. 1, 2014, refereed journal in English.
Eurasia Border Review vol. 5, no. 2, 2014, refereed journal in English.
Japan Border Review Special Issue, 2014, refereed journal in Japanese.

The Library
Purchase of Sakhalin Maps
The SRC Library purchased 60 sheets of topographical maps of Sakhalin with a scaleof 1:25,000, compiled by the Japanese military authorities in the 1920s and 1940s. Amongthem, 28 sheets, based on measurement in 1942, cover most of the northern periphery of South
Sakhalin; 24 sheets, based on measurement in 1940, cover several parts of North Sakhalin;
and 8 sheets, based on measurements in 1924, cover Okha and its surrounding areas.
The publishing house Kagaku Shoin published a reprint of old topographical maps of
Sakhalin with a scale of 1:25000 in 2000. It contains most parts of our new acquisition, but thelast 8 sheets are not included there, and the Library seems to be the only holder in the world.
We are now preparing to add these 8 sheets of maps and some other new photos to our
website. The URL is: http://srcmaterials-hokudai.jp/

Tonai Yuzuru

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Contents
Message from the Director............................................................................................p. 1
2014 Summer International Symposium “Thirty Years of Crisis: Empire, Violence,and Ideology in Eurasia from the First to the Second World War”.......................... p. 2
2014 Winter International Symposium “Border Power! Crosscutting Forces at Playin Eurasia”..............................................................................................................p. 3
Where Did Ukraine Come From? Where Is Ukraine Heading For?................................. p. 5
The JIBSN Annual Seminar Was Held in Iriomote Island, Taketomi Town, Yaeyama..... p. 6
Report on the Sixth East Asian Conference on Slavic Eurasian Studies 2014 Seoul........p. 7
Professor Matsuzato Kimitaka Left the SRC............................................................... p. 8
Appointment of Professor Sengoku Manabu............................................................... p. 8
Our Current Staff......................................................................................................... p. 9
Ongoing Cooperative Research Projects.....................................................................p. 10
Visitors from Abroad................................................................................................... p. 11
Guest Lecturers from Abroad......................................................................................p. 11
Essay: A Summer in Hokkaido by David Marples..........................................................p. 13
Essay: Historical Legacies and the Outbreak of the Ukrainian Civil War
by Irina Papkov.....................................................................................................p. 16
Publications (2014)......................................................................................................p. 19
The Library..................................................................................................................p. 19

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