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The time is ripe for changing the name of our center. At the same time, many of us andour friends have an attachment to the traditional name, so we decided to limit the change toa minimum, only adding one word. The abbreviation “SRC” will remain in use, at least for
the time being. The new name “Slavic-Eurasian Research Center” is effective in showing
our research orientations in a double sense. First, it more correctly indicates the area westudy, i.e., former Soviet and East European countries, where people speak not only Slavic,
but also Turkic, Finno-Ugric, Caucasian, Baltic, Iranian, Mongolic, Romance, Tungusic,
and other languages. Second, it implies our vision of area studies in an age of globalization:
the characteristics of a region cannot be properly understood without comparison with otherregions and research on transborder phenomena, and cooperation with specialists in studies
of other regions of the world, especially Eurasia (China, India, the Middle East, Western
Europe, Japan, Southeast Asia, etc.), is vital for us.
The renaming does not mean that we are curtailing Slavic studies. On the contrary,
unlike the social-science-oriented SRC until the 1990s, we have now almost equal numbers ofsocial scientists and humanities scholars, including prominent specialists in Slavic literatureand languages. In other words, Slavic studies and Eurasian studies have been simultaneously
developing at the SRC, stimulating each other. We will continue to be a center for both Slavic
and Eurasian studies, and would like to entreat: Slavists and Eurasianists of the world, unite!
Uyama Tomohiko

The SRC Achieved the Highest Mark “S” asa Result of the Interim Evaluation of Joint
Usage/Research Centers
Since 2009, the Slavic Research Center has been recognized as a “joint usage/research
center” (JURC) for comprehensive research on the Slavic-Eurasian regions by the Japanese
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). JURCs have a
mission to provide their facilities to researchers from all over Japan and to conduct joint
research based on open competition programs. The SRC as a JURC aims to become a hubof not only nationwide but also worldwide networks of Slavic-Eurasian studies, and to
train the next generation of scholars capable of joining global research activities. For thispurpose, the SRC has launched new joint usage and research programs along with preexisting
programs for foreign fellows, visiting fellows, and postdoctoral and doctoral fellows, and uses
these programs to enrich its own research projects and networks. It has also strengthened
cooperation with Japanese and global research associations, including the Japan Council for
Russian and East European Studies (JCREES) and the International Council for Central andEast European Studies (ICCEES).
In 2013, a working group of the Council for Science and Technology of MEXT carried out
an interim evaluation of 74 JURCs affiliated with national universities. As a result, the SRC
achieved the highest mark of “S” (superb), which means that the working group recognizedthat the SRC actively conducts its work as a JURC, achieving notable and effective resultsof joint usage and research and making a great contribution to related research communities.
The evaluation comments were as follows:This JURC deserves high praise for achieving excellent research results, involving
a wide range of both prominent and young researchers, and for developing international
research activities aimed at global integration of academic communities in the field, withexcellent researchers as its leaders. It is expected to further expand the research communities
to promote the area studies of the vast Slavic-Eurasian regions.
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We are extremely glad that our efforts to promote Japanese and global Slavic-Eurasianstudies received such high evaluation. We are really grateful for the help of our friends andcolleagues from other universities and countries, as well as for the devotion and supportof our staff. Encouraged by this evaluation, we are determined to contribute to the further
development of our field.
Uyama Tomohiko

The Global COE Program,“Reshaping Japan’s BorderStudies,” Entered Its Final Year
1) Summer International Symposium
On August 2–3, 2013, theGlobal COE organized a summer
symposium called “Border Studies: Challenges and Perspectives
in the Twenty-first Century.”
The symposium consistedof the following five sessions:“Introducing North American
Borderlands,” “New Perspectives
on Eurasia’s Arctic Borderlands,”“Borders and Language: Case
Studies from the Slavic World,”“Trans-border Environmental Issues: Chernobyl, Fukushima, and The session “New Perspectives on Eurasia’s Arcthe World,” and “Border Studies: tic Borderlands,” which was fully occupied
A Compass towards a New World
Politics? (Round Table),” as well as a luncheon seminar entitled “Border Studies in Africa”
and a DVD showing “Border Regions in Transition XII: Fukuoka-Busan Conference 2012.”
A remarkable session was the Arctic session where leading scholars around the world got
together and heated debate was exchanged. This session was held in cooperation with the
Hokkaido International Exchange and Cooperation Center (HIECC), and simultaneoustranslation was provided for citizens.
Foreign scholars from Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Finland,
Poland, and Ukraine presented their papers. Throughout the two-day symposium, almost
one hundred people joined.

Speakers at the Symposium (August 2–3, 2013)

Paul Ganster (San Diego State University, USA) “Evolving Environmental Management at the U.S.-Mexican Border”
Victor Konrad (Carleton University, Canada) “Borders and Culture: Zones of Transition, Interaction and
Identity in the Canada-United States Borderlands”
Mizutani Yuka (Sophia University, Japan) “Borders and Boundaries in Indigenous Life of Modern North America”
Oishi Takanori (Kyoto University, Japan) “Special Lecture on ‘Border Studies in the Middle East’”Alexander Sergunin (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) “Paradiplomacy as a Capacity-Building Strategy:
The Case of Russia’s Arctic Subnational Actors”
Lassi Heininen (University of Lapland, Finland) “Security in the Arctic: New Dimensions, Global Challenges
and National Policy Responses”
Klaus Dodds (University of London, UK) “Managing Polar Orientalism: East Asia, Euro-Asia and the Arctic Region”

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Ohnishi Fujio (Nihon University, Japan) “The Struggle for Arctic Regional Order: Developments and Prospectsof Arctic Politics”
Robert Huebert (University of Calgary, Canada)
Alexander Maxwell (Victoria University, New Zealand) “Fickle Nationalism: Slovakia’s Shifting Ethno-Linguistic Borders”
Tomasz Kamusella (University of St. Andrews, UK) and Nomachi Motoki (SRC) “When Is a Language?
The Long Shadow of Border, or on (Non-)Recognizing Other Languages in an Officially Monolingual
Ethnolinguistic Nation-State: The Cases of Kashubian and Silesian in Poland”
Curt Woolhiser (Brandeis University, USA) “Language Ideology, Borders, and Identity: Mapping Languages
and Identities in Poland’s Podlasie Region”
Sergii Iegan (State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine) “Defence in Depth in Ukraine”
Roman Khalenko (State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine) “Ukrainian Emergency Preparedness System”
Kawano Shinji (Doshisha University, Japan) “Defence in Depth in Japan”
Koyano Mari (Hokkaido University, Japan) “International Law for Nuclear Safety in East Asia”
Victor Konrad (Charleton University, Canada), Paul Ganster (San Diego State University, USA), Jussi Laine(University of Eastern Finland), and Paul Richardson (University of Manchester, UK) “Border Studies:
A Compass towards a New World Politics? (Round Table)

2) Museum Exhibition

Showpieces of one of the museum exhibitions2014) has just been published.

This year, the GCOE produced
three exhibitions at Hokkaido
University Museum: “Unknown
Kamchatka and Kuril Islands:
Russian Images of the Borderland”(Jan. 25, 2013 – May 26, 2013), “ThePioneers of Border Studies inJapan” (June 1 – Oct. 27, 2013), and“Footprint of ‘Reshaping Japan’s
Border Studies’ Project” (Nov. 10 –Dec. 27, 2013).
The latter exhibition is a compilation of all exhibits and materials
collected and created by membersof the GCOE project in the last five
years. The exhibition catalogue
Illustrated Borders in Eurasia andJapan (Hokkaido University Press,

3) Summer School

The fourth-but-last summer school
program, “Borders in Eurasia,” took placefrom July 29 to August 3, 2013. Youngresearchers from China, India, Russia,
and Tajikistan joined this program. The
lectures consisted of talks on Japan’sborders and various border issues, suchas the Arctic region and the EU’s externalborders as well as theory of border studies.
Throughout the four (2010–2014)
summer school programs, we had participants from 23 countries, or 41 young A scene from the program of the summer
researchers from abroad. Some of them school “Borders in Eurasia”
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have already established themselves in the international border studies community and thisachievement serves one of our aims—to create a core of young and promising graduate
students and researchers on border studies by bridging and integrating our overseas networks
and communities.
Fujimori Shinkichi

Winter International Symposium 2013
“Catastrophe and Resurrection: New
Approaches to a Changing Slavic Eurasia”
On December 12–13, 2013,
the Slavic Research Center organized an annual winter symposium entitled “Catastrophe andResurrection: New Approaches toa Changing Slavic Eurasia.”
We put the perspective of
not only natural disaster but also
the turmoil accompanying social
disaster and in the aftermath of the“3.11” or Tohoku earthquake andFukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster into this title. In other words,
we could also consider wars andrevolutions to be “catastrophes”
and focus on how people’s memo- A scene from Session 1
ries overcome these catastrophes.
The equation of wars and revolutions with natural catastrophes means that there is no“friend or foe” and no “winner or loser,” but only survivors who share the harsh memory ofdisaster and create a future in a renewed relationship together. Six sessions were held basedon the abovementioned common problem—“Crisis and Revival of Muslim Society in the
Russian Empire,” “Twenty Years of Transformations in Post-Soviet Central Asia,” “Resurrection of People and Land through Folklore in Chernobyl and Fukushima,” “Border Tourism:
Comparative Studies beyond the Continents,” “Remembering World War II in Russia andthe Far East,” and “Images of the Others in Russian-Soviet Culture.” The symposium wasmade up of researchers from eight nations: the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Uzbekistan,
Kazakhstan, Mexico, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
We appreciate the financial support offered by the funds of Hokkaido University’s Executive Office, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the Hokkaido University
Global COE Program “Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies,” and the Toyota Foundation.
Ieda Osamu

Speakers at the Symposium (December 12–13, 2013)

Aftandil Erkinov (Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan/SRC) “Islam ‘versus’ Islam: Process
of Turkicization in the Turkestan General-Governorship (1867–1917)”
Marsil Farkhshatov (Ufa Scientific Center, Russia) “Orenburg Muslim Spiritual Assembly and Its Resolution
Records as a Source of Historical Study of Muslims of Russian Empire” (in Russian)
Bakhtiyor Islamov (Tashkent Branch of Plekhanov Russian Economic University, Uzbekistan/SRC) “Central
Asian States Twenty Years After”

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Erlan Karin (Kazakhstan) “The Development of Political Systems in Central Asia: An Issue of Power Transfer”
Bhavna Davé (University of London, UK) “Kazakhstan: From a Nationalizing to a Migrant-Receiving State”
Ozawa Shoji (Environmental journalist, Japan) “Villagers Deprived of Their Lives and Livelihood by the
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster”
Rostislav Omeliashko (State Scientific Centre for Cultural Heritage Protection from Technogenic Catastrophes,
Ukraine) “The Experience of Preservation of Traditional Cultural Heritage of Poles’e, Ukraine, in the
Area of the Chernobyl Disaster” (in Russian)Serghei Golunov (University of Tartu, Estonia) “Tourism across the EU-Russian Border: Official Strategies
vs Unofficial Tactics”
Tomás Cuevas Contreras (Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico) “The Pink Store: A Unique
Tourism Enterprise at the US-Mexico Border”
Tamura Tsuji Keiko (University of Kitakyushu, Japan) “Border Tourism in Southeast Asia: Thailand-Myanmar
and Singapore-Malaysia Borders”
Serguei Oushakine (Princeton University, USA) “Re-enacting Russia’s War: On the Affective Managementof History”
Philip Seaton (Hokkaido University, Japan) “War Memories in Hokkaido: Local vs National Remembering”
Arai Yukiyasu (Asia University, Japan) “Mongolia at War in the 20th Century: The Khalkhyn Gol (Nomon
Khan) War and Its War Memory”
Konstantin Bogdanov (Institute for Russian Literature, Russia/SRC) “Blacks in the Soviet Union: The
Ethnography of Imaginary Diaspora” (in Russian)Hasegawa Akira (Akita University, Japan) “Images of Extraterrestrials in Soviet Films” (in Russian)
Boris Lanin (Russian Academy of Education) “Jews in Slavic Worlds according to Friedrikh Gorenshtein”(in Russian)

Grant-in-aid for Scientific
Research on Innovative Areas“Comparative Research on Major
Regional Powers in Eurasia”
1) Our Project Has Ended
The project named “Comparative Research on Major Regional Powers in Eurasia” for
Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, which started in December 2008, ended in March
2013. We would like to express our deepest gratitude to each member and to those who
participated in our seminars.
The achievements of this project have been published in several domestic/international
journals, as well as in the discussion paper entitled “Comparative Studies on Regional Powers.”
From the entire collection above, we will publish a total of six books in the series Regional
Powers in Eurasia, in Japanese.
1. Sustainable Economic Development of Regional Powers in Eurasia, edited by Uegaki
Akira and Tabata Shinichiro, published in March 2013.
2. Models of Government for Eurasian Regional Powers, edited by Tang Liang andMatsuzato Kimitaka, published in March 2013.
3. Reshaping the International Order in Eurasia, edited by Iwashita Akihiro, publishedin December 2013.
4. Modern Eurasian Empires and Today’s World, edited by Uyama Tomohiko,
forthcoming.
5. Borderlands and Minorities of Eurasian Regional Powers, edited by Yamane So andNaganawa Norihiro, forthcoming.
6. Russia, China, India: Intercultural Dialogue, edited by Mochizuki Tetsuo, to be
published in March 2014.
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Furthermore, publication of the project achievements in English by Routledge is underpreparation. In addition, the proceedings of the international symposium that we conductedat the Slavic Research Center will soon be published.
Fortunately, this Scientific Research on Innovation Areas is provided with research funds
for project results in the year following the project’s ending. By using these funds, we plan
to maintain our publication activities. Therefore, our administration and the website will be
kept throughout this year.
Last but not least, the Slavic Research Center intends to continue comparison of Slavic
Eurasia and various global regions now and onwards, so please give us your continuous
cooperation from now on.

2) On the Result of the Project Evaluation of the Scientific
Research on Innovative Areas (Research Area Proposal Type)In the project evaluation in 2013, “Comparative Research on Major Regional Powers
in Eurasia” for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, with a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific
Research, received the following evaluation:
A− (It was mainly achieved as expected under the research proposal, but has seen apartial delay.)
We regret to see a minus in the results, but this may be due to the fact that most of thesubjects are under the category of “natural sciences” in this Scientific Research in Innovative
Areas, so that a new basis of theories and a concrete perspective were strictly required.
On the other hand, the fact that a new research community crossing the targeted regions
has been created in the course of this project, and that the achievements of this project havebeen energetically presented through the publication of journals and books, as well as atconferences, were highly evaluated. The high evaluation we received has made me believethat we fulfilled our responsibility while we started from building an unprecedented frameworkand tackled many difficult themes. I appreciate your cooperation with all the past activities.

3) Award of the Third (Year of 2013) Japan Consortium for the
Area Studies Award for Research Planning
The research project entitled“Comparative Research on Major Regional Powers in Eurasia”(2008–2012) for Scientific Researchon Innovative Areas (project leader:
Tabata Shinichiro) has been awarded
the third (year 2013) Japan Consortium for Area Studies Award for
Research Planning.
The Japan Consortium for
Area Studies (JCAS) consists ofresearch and educational institutes
along with learned societies, which
are engaged in studies on various
global regions, in line with theoriginal purpose of promoting Professor Tabata, the project leader, receiving
information exchanges and joint the award from the Chairman of the Japan Conresearch activities across organiza- sortium for Area Studies
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No.21 March 2014tional borders. The Slavic Research Center is playing its part in JCAS’ activity (http://
www.jcas.jp/en/index.html).
From the review of the screening committee, the following achievement of the project
was highly evaluated: “By comparing the economically highly presented countries of Russia,
China, and India, which are placed as regional power countries in the contemporary world,
the researchers in area studies, experts in finding the specialization and characterization ofthese individual areas whose commonality and universality are particularly challenging toclarify, have attempted to present another economic and political model as a new yardstickcomparable to leading (advanced) countries’ views. Their endeavor has had an impact while
expanding world recognition of Japan, which is undergoing a big transition.”
Goto Masanori

The Fifth East Asian Conference on Slavic
Eurasian Studies Was Held at Osaka
University of Economics and Law
Matsuzato Kimitaka (SRC/Representative of the JCREES to the ICCEES)On August 9–10, 2013, the Fifth East Asian Conference on Slavic Eurasian Studies
entitled “1913–2013 for Eurasia: A Great Experiment or a Lost Century?” was held at Osaka
University of Economics and Law. This event started in 2009, according to the decision of
the “summit” of representatives of Slavicist associations in East Asia (the Chinese Associationof Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, the Japanese Council for Russian andEast European Studies, and the Korean Association for Slavic Studies), and was held at Seoul
National University in February 2008. The first conference was held in Sapporo (2009), thesecond in Seoul (2010), the third in Beijing (2011), and the fourth in Kolkata (2012). The
first cycle was completed and, this year, the second cycle started in Osaka.
The President of Osaka University of Economics and Law, Professor Emeritus of Osaka
University, Wakio Fujimoto, served as chairperson of the Organizing Committee of the Fifth
East Asian Conference on Slavic Eurasian Studies. The General Secretary of the Organizing
Committee was Professor Takayuki Yokota-Murakami of Osaka University. Membersof the committee were Professor Noriko Igarashi of Tenri University, Professor Atsushi
Ogushi of Keio University, and Professor Kimitaka Matsuzato of Hokkaido University.
Osaka University of Economics and Law generously supported this event.
A total of 37 panels were organized and 111 papers were presented at this conference.
The total number of participants was 153. Paper presenters are divided by country as follows(according to where they work, not their citizenship).
Japan―49
Kazakhstan―5
China―15
Finland―5
Korea―8
US―3
Russia―8
Sweden―3
UK―5
Besides, there was one paper presenter each from Mongolia, Canada, the Czech Republic,
France, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Australia, Taiwan, and Kyrgyzstan.
Conference papers were uploaded online before the conference so that the participants
could choose panels and be ready for them.
At the opening ceremony, Organizing Committee Chair Professor Fujimoto, Professor
Mitsuyoshi Numano of Tokyo University (JCREES Chairperson), Professor Graeme
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Gill of University of Sydney (ICCEES
President), and Nail Latypov, General
Consul of Russia in Osaka gave greetings.
The General Secretary of the conference,
Yokota-Murakami Takayuki, reported onorganizational matters.
Before the conference dinner, Professor Numano and Professor Testuo
Mochizuki of Hokkaido University gave
special lectures entitled “The Seagull
Goes to the Cosmos, and Haruki goes to
Sakhalin: Border Crossing and Cultural
Interactions between Russia and Japan,”and “Comparing the Incomparable: What Professor Graeme Gill of Sydney UniverWe Learned from the Eurasian Regional sity and the Organizing Committee ChairPowers Project,” respectively.
Professor Fujimoto at the Opening CereThe success of the Osaka Conference, mony
which was of the largest scale in the historyof East Asian conferences, will mark an important step towards the Makuhari World Congressin 2015. The program and abstracts of the Osaka Conference can be downloaded from: http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/jcrees/text/2013OSAKAProgramLastall.pdf.
The next East Asian Conference for Slavic Eurasian Studies in 2014 will be hosted
by the Korean Association of Slavic Studies in June. A Call for Proposals will soon be
published online.

Foreign Visitors Fellowship Program
The SRC selected the following scholars as foreign fellows for
2014–15.
Name: Zaynabidin Abdirashidov
Position: Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Uzbek Philology, National University of Uzbekistan
Research Topic at the SRC: The Idea of Freedom in Fitrat’s Reformist Thought: From“Freedom through Islam” to “Freedom through Atheism”
Term of Stay: July 1, 2014 – March 31, 2015
Name: Sergey Golunov
Position: Research Fellow, Centre for EU-Russian Studies, University of Tartu (– January
31, 2014)
Research Topic at the SRC: Communicating Border Crossing Issues: The Cases of the EU’s
Borders with Russia and Ukraine
Term of Stay: June 1, 2014 – February 28, 2015
Name: Thomas Lahusen
Position: Professor, Department of History and Centre for Comparative Literature, Universityof Toronto
Research Topic at the SRC: Theme Park Manchuria: Memories of the Global Age
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Name: David Marples
Position: Distinguished University Professor, Department of History and Classics, Universityof Alberta
Research Topic at the SRC: Responses to the “Holodomor” in Eastern Ukraine and Russia:
Historical Memory and Identity Politics
Term of Stay: June 1, 2014 – August 31, 2014
Name: Irina Papkov
Position: Fellow, Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Georgetown University
Research Topic at the SRC: The Civil War That Will Not End: The Politics of Russian
National Consolidation in the 21st Century
Term of Stay: September 1, 2014 – October 31, 2014
Name: Diliara Usmanova
Position: Professor, Department of History, Kazan Federal University
Research Topic at the SRC: Manuscript and Old Books Expedition at Kazan University(1963–2010): Collecting Knowledge, Forming Traditions
Term of Stay: June 6, 2014 – October 5, 2014
Osuga Mika

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
Matsuzato Kimitaka: Professor, Politics in Post-Communist Countries; Imperial Historyof Russia
Mochizuki Tetsuo: Professor, Russian Literature
Naganawa Norihiro: Associate Professor, Modern History of Central Eurasia; Islam in Russia
Nomachi Motoki: Associate Professor, Slavic Linguistics; General Linguistics
Tabata Shinichiro: Professor, Russian Economy and Comparative Economic Studies
Uyama Tomohiko: Professor, Central Asian History and Politics; Comparative Imperial
Studies; Director of the SRC
Wolff, David: 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:
Fujimori Shinkichi: Ukrainian Politics; CIS Relations
Goto Masanori: Historical Formation of Scientific and Religious Knowledge, and Economic
Activity of People in Post-Socialist Countries
Kiyama Katsuhiko: Archaeology of Northeast Asia
Takahashi Sanami: Russian Orthodoxy in Soviet Culture

Foreign Visitors Fellow 2013 (June) – 2014 (March)
Konstantin Bogdanov: Understanding of Human Rights in Soviet and Post-Soviet Language
Culture: Between the Key Concepts and Key Emotions
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Jane Burbank: The Legal Life of the State: Russian Sovereignty in the Kazan Judicial
District, 1890–1917
Aftandil Erkinov: Islam “versus” Islam: Process of Turkicization in the Turkestan
General-Governorship
Bakhtior Islamov: The Central Asian States Twenty Years After: Achievements and Failures
Oleg Manaev: Peculiarities of Post-Soviet Authoritarianism and Its Influence on the Region(the case of Belarus in comparison with Russia and Ukraine)
Ilya Zaytsev: The Russian State and the Muslims of European Russia and Siberia in the
Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries: Imperial Indifference or Orthodox Tolerance?

Research Fellows:
Chida Tetsuro: Soviet History
Hanamatsu Yasunori: International Law
Hirayama Akihiro: Modern and Contemporary History of Vietnam
Honda Akiko: Soviet Art and Architecture
Inoue Takehiko: Kalmyk Buddhist Monks in the Russian Empire
Itani Hiroshi: Architectural History of Sakhalin and Karafuto
Karashima Hiroyoshi: Anthropology; Study of Mongolian Pastoral Society
Kikuta Haruka: Cultural Anthropology; Muslim Society in Central Asia; Saint Worship in
Uzbekistan
Nakayama Taisho: Migration History of Northeast Asia; Modern and Contemporary Historyof Sakahlin/Karafuto
Morishita Yoshiyuki: Central and Eastern European History
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 “Grantsin-Aid 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)
Scientific Research B
Headed by Hara Teruyuki: “Modern History of the Sakhalin Island (Karafuto), as a
Borderland Colony” (2013–16)
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” (2013–2016)
Headed by Matsuzato Kimitaka: “Comparing Competitive Authoritarianisms”(2012–14)
Headed by Nomachi Motoki: “A Comprehensive Study of the Slavic Micro Literary
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Scientific Research C
Headed by Komoto Yasuko: “An Examination of ‘Lamaist’ Visual Materials in Modern
Japan” (2012–16)
Headed by Naganawa Norihiro: “Revolutionary Empire: A Biography of Karim
Khakimov (1892–1937)” (2013–16)
Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientists A
Headed by Kiyama Katsuhiko: “Archaeological Research of the Mohe, Bohai andJurchen” (2013–2016)
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 B
Headed by Chida Tetsuro: “Environmental History of the Aral Sea Basin after WorldWar II: Human Activities and Ecological Crisis” (2013–16)
Headed by Hanamatsu Yasunori: “Integrated Management of Land and Ocean in the
Amur-Okhotsk Ecosystem, and the Applicability of the Ramsar Convention” (2012–13)
Headed by Hirayama Akihiro: “A Historical Study on the Construction of the General
Mobilization System in Northern Vietnam under the Influence of the Cold War Politics during
the First Indochina War Period” (2011–13)
Headed by Inoue Satoko: “A Comparative Study of the Polish Literature in the Polish-German Borderlands and the Polish Migrant Literature in Germany” (2011–14)
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)
Research Activity Startup
Headed by Honda Akiko: “The Role of the Media in Totalitarianization of Soviet
Architecture” (2012–13)

Visitors from Abroad
Andriy Danylenko (Pace University, USA), June–August 2013: Balkanisms, Carpathianisms and Carpathian Balkanisms, or Can we Speak about a Carpathian-Balkan Linguistic
Macroarea?
Asima Ishanovа (L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan), July–August 2013: Постмодернистские тенденции в современной казахской литературе
Natal’ia Loktionova (Sh. Ualikhanov Kokshetau State University, Kazakhstan),
July–August 2013: Диалог культур в творчестве Бахытжана Канапьянова
Amanzhol Altai (L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan), September–October 2013: Казахская литература в XV–XVIII веках
Azat Babashov (Karaganda University “Bolashak,” Kazakhstan), September–October
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Guest Lecturers from Abroad
Feng Anquan (Heilongjiang Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, China),“Экономическое сотрудничество между Провинцией Хэйлунцзян КНР и Дальним
Востоком в сфере сельского хозяйства: настоящее положение и будущие задач,”January 24, 2013.
Irina Sedakova (Institute for Slavic Studies, Russia), “Borders in Bulgaria in the Lightof Areal Ethnolinguistic Studies: Christmas and Childbirth Ritual Complexes,” February 6,
2013.
Markus Kaiser (Trier University, Germany), “On Central Asia Today,” February 14, 2013.
Mark Lipovetsky (University of Colorado-Boulder, USA), “Амбивалентность какполитическая позиция: Трикстеры в советской культуре,” March 7, 2013.
Irina Shatova (Classic Private University, Ukraine), “Современные исследования
русской литературы в Украине” “Новая исследовательская методология в изучении
карнавальной литературы,” March 11, 2013.
Yaroslav Gorbachov (University of Chicago, USA), “A Historically-motivated Classification of the Early Historical Slavic Verb,” March 29, 2013.
Iurii Leving (Dalhousie University, Canada), “Водолаз в русской поэзии,” May 2, 2013.
Zhanbolat Baimurynov (Karaganda University “Bolashak,” Kazakhstan), Nurshat Zhumadilova (Karaganda University “Bolashak,” Kazakhstan), Baian Zhunusova (Karaganda
University “Bolashak,” Kazakhstan), “Научный семинар «Японские военнопленные вКарагандинской области»,” May 29, 2013.
Rok Zupančič (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), “Conflict Prevention and the Possibility of Reconciliation in Kosovo,” July 11, 2013.
Frederick Cooper (New York University, USA), “Imperial Pathways: Africa and Russia
in the 20th Century,” July 22, 2013.
[International Workshop “Slavic in the Language Map of Europe: Questions of Areal
Typology”] Henning Andersen (University of California in LA, USA), “Slavic and the
Birth of Standard Average European”; Jadranka Gvozdanović (Heidelberg University,
Germany), “Standard Average European Revisited in the Light of Slavic Evidence”; Bernd
Heine (University of Cologne, Germany), “On Formulas of Equivalence in Contact-induced
Grammaticalization: An Example from Molise Slavic”; Brian Joseph (Ohio State University,USA), “Languages Large and Small, Slavic and Non-Slavic: A Sociolinguistic Typology”;
George Thomas (McMaster University, Canada), “Some Typological Features of the Slavic
Languages of the Danube Basin from a Pan-European Perspective”; Paul Wexler (Tel Aviv
University, Israel), “A New Attempt to Reconstruct the Languages of Slavo-Iranian andSlavo-Turkic Tribal Confederations: The View from Yiddish”; Björn Wiemer (Johannes
Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany) “‘Matrёška’ and Types of Areal Clusterings
Involving Varieties of Slavic,” August 11–12, 2013.
Huang Lifu (Institute of World History, China), Wang Xiaoju (Institute of WorldHistory, China), Zhu Jianli (Institute of World History, China), “How Is the History of
Russia and the USSR Studied in China? Dialogue with Historians of the Institute of WorldHistory, CASS,” August 14, 2013.
Szász András (St. István University, Hungary), “Oncothermia,” September 3, 2013.
Vladimir Sorokin (writer), “Метафизика русского пространства: Беседа сВладимиром Сорокиным,” October 12, 2013
[Lectures and Joint Seminar “The Achievements of Bronisław Piłsudski: A ‘Polish’ Ainu
Researcher”] Cyryl Kozaczewski (Polish Ambassador to Japan) and Krzysztof Jaraczewski(Director of Józef Piłsudski Museum, and J. Piłsudski’s grandson), “Opening Session”; Ewa
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Pałasz-Rutkowska (Warsaw University, Poland), “Poland and Japan during the Lifetime ofBronisław Piłsudski”; Witold Kowalski (writer, and B. Piłsudski’s sister’s great-grandson),“The Making of Global Man: Who and What Was Bronisław Piłsudski?”; Alfred Majewicz(Adam Mickiewicz University and Copernicus University, Poland), “Why? Unveiling a
Monument to Bronisław Piłsudski in Shiraoi,” October 20, 2013.
Jukka Pietiläinen (University of Helsinki, Finland), “Russian Elections and Manipulation of the Election Results,” November 7, 2013.
Yamazaki Kayoko (poet, University of Belgrade, Serbia), Vojislav Karanović (poet),and Duško Novaković (poet), “Dialogue with Serbian Poems: Lectures and Recitations,”
November 18, 2013.
Konishi Sho (University of Oxford, UK), “Doing Transnational History of Japan,”
December 19, 2013.

Undivided Attention: Scholarship and Lifein Sapporo
Jane Burbank (New York University, USA/Foreign Fellow, SRC, 2013)
Part way through my all-too-short stay at
the Slavic Research Center, I posted two pictures
on my Facebook site—one on the top of cloudy
Mount Monbetsu, the other in sunshine by a
Noguchi pyramid in Moerenuma park—with
the caption, “Two views from my happy life inJapan.” A former graduate student responded,“Jane, this requires an explanation, for me atleast.” In this short essay, I’ll try to explain what
has made me so happy here.
First, of course, all the conditions are
fulfilled for scholarly creativity and, if you workat it, productivity. In my view, a fellowship at
the Slavic Research Center is best used for thecreativity part: you have time to think and rethink
what you were working on, to mull over papers
At the top of Mount Monbetsu
your colleagues draw your attention to, to wanderaround in the fabulous library stacks, to read the articles you received by email but didn’t
have time for earlier. I made only slight progress on a book manuscript, but I wrote three
separate pieces that helped me see where my bigger projects—two books in fact—are going.
This was made possible by the SRC—its astounding staff, its library, its faculty and students,
its visitors, its building, and its special location at Hokkaido University and Sapporo.
I don’t want to draw a sharp contrast between creativity and productivity; they should
work together. Scholars tend to draw contrasts, divisions, to come up with categories, to divide
people, activities and cultures into types—Asian/Western, rural/urban, professional/personal.
One effect of my time in Sapporo was help me develop a challenge to these classifications
in my writing on Russian law and governance. Some of my inspiration came from seeing
these divides as not descriptive of daily Sapporo life, either—to my delight.
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As for the classifications
that obfuscate rather than clarify
research and writing, my favorite
candidates for questioning thissummer were “bureaucracy” vs.
“personal” ways of rule. I wasworking on a study of Russia’s“land captains” (zemskie nachal’niki)—officials who were
supposed to oversee peasantaffairs in most provinces of theempire. While doing research in
Kazan earlier, I had found a setof inspections conducted in 1909of these officials. My stay at the
SRC gave me the time to construct At the top of Mount Fuppushi (with her spouse, etc.)
a data base using these reviewsof intermediaries of imperial government and to look at it systematically. I did not want
to rely on my impressions of what was salient in these documents. A statistical approach,while it took time to attain, let me have a better look at the qualities of zemskie nachal’niki’s
performance of their tasks, in the eyes of their reviewers. This internal reviews, designed forother officials to read, give us insight into how the inspectors themselves wanted to represent
the qualities of a good or a bad administrator.
What turned out to matter to the state’s inspectors were both bureaucratic and personal
factors. The most important topics of the reviews of the zemskie nachal’niki were record-keeping, supervision of township institutions and officials, promotion of a complicated land
reform, speed and completeness of work, accuracy in applying the law, and oversight of theregional economy. But the inspectors also cared about the individual qualities of these civil
servants—were they interested in their work, were they energetic, were they trying to learn
how to improve their performance? This analysis provoked me to challenge both the usual
myths about Russian governance—arbitrary, lawless, backward, etc.—but also to think how
we misuse Weberian categories. They do not describe two distinct modes of government:
modern bureaucracies vs. personalized old regime power. Governance can be both bureaucratic and personal. In fact, how can you have a “bureau” without a “bureaucrat” to run it?
How does thinking such thoughts relate to the Slavic Research Center and life in Sapporo?
Well, there are other dichotomous categories that we use regularly to describe everyday life.
East/West and rural/urban are examples of classifications that can become challenged if youlive and work in Sapporo. For one thing, where is the east really? How do we get our senseof direction here in Japan? Especially when most of us are working on Russian empire,
where both east and west are used, but differently and with their own multiple meanings.
My sense in Sapporo was that neither scholarship or daily life could be described in east/west
terms: everywhere there were creative blends and takes on insights and inventions from allover the globe. Connections, diversity, pleasure in differences, easy appreciation of traditionand novelty, kimonos and the coolest socks, not to mention so many delicious cuisines—allthese defy classification and all of them belong to Japanese culture in its many expressions.
Rural/urban is a divide that has irritated me for a long time, both in my work as a historianof Russia and as a person who grew up in the countryside. Perhaps it’s one reason I write
about peasants: I want to show that they are individuals, not just a backward collectivity.
Before coming to Sapporo I lived in New York and Paris, both places where people can’t
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understand why anyone would
live elsewhere than in the bestcity... Set against this relentless
urbanism, life in Sapporo andwork on the Hokkaido campus
offered the best medicine: country
and city were blended. Corn grewin urban backyards! I planted
and harvested tomatoes outside
the foreign residents’ apartments.
The air smells deliciously of the
fields, spring, summer, fall. The
laundry can be hung up in thesunshine. The campus has its
streams, fields, even cows! So
here country and city, academy
In Moerenuma Park in the Sapporo suburbs
and farm were put together, lived
together, in ways that made me, a historian of Russian peasants, once a girl who grew up
with a garden and mountains in the background, very happy.
Finally, art and sport. Here is another pairing that people in Sapporo put together withverve. The stunning aesthetics of both daily life and civic architecture (Kitara concert hall,
the Museum of Modern Art) can be enjoyed in the same city, even on the same day, where
you can climb a mountain. Tonai-san, the SRC librarian with his fabulous collection led me
up three impressive peaks. I listened to extraordinary performances of Mahler and Brittainin Sapporo; I learned to adore volcanoes. I will not even mention the culinary arts, thequality of products that Hokkaido’s citizens produce and prepare. I will not allow myself
tears about not being around for the snow and the skiing. I will bicycle home through themobs of student runners and think that here life comes together in happy variety. It doesn’t
deserve categories, just love.

Искусство нюансов: несколько вещей, которыхмне не хватало в Японии и будет не хватать вМоскве после поездки в Японию
Ilya Zaytsev (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russia/Foreign Fellow, SRC, 2013)Когда мы с женой готовились уезжать в Японию, нас предупреждали: «Смотрите,там вам много будет не хватать!».   Под «многим» понимались черный хлеб, сало,борщ, картошка с селедкой и прочие прелести восточноевропейской кухни.  Поэтому
черный хлеб, сало, свеклу и прочее мы взяли с собой.  Борщ, приготовленный из свеклы,заботливо помытой таможенниками в международном аэропорту «Chitose», сильно
скрасил наше кулинарное одиночество.  Мыли свеклу затем, чтобы полностью удалить
остатки подмосковной земли, которая к ней пристала.  Тут мы удивились первый раз.
Чего нам действительно иногда не хватало, так это японского языка.  Например,только в начале пятого месяца мы узнали от своих друзей, что жидкость, которую мысчитали соевым соусом и ели с ней рыбу, оказалась приправой для мяса (правда соевый
соус в ней тоже был!).  Купили как-то странный продукт, похожий на потерявшую
цвет мидию.  Долго спорили, что это—моллюск или рыба.  Оказалось (после осмотра
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No.21 March 2014специалиста), что это желе изкартошки с помидорами.  Одинраз в ресторане (там не былоанглийского меню) заказывалиеду через компьютерный переводчик: официант писал по-японски вопросы, компьютер
переводил на английский, мыписали по-английски ответы,компьютер опять переводил.  
Неплохо поужинали.
Прошло уже почти пятьмесяцев, как мы живем в Саппоро.  Немного попутешествовав With a bronze statue of a crow in Sapporo Art Parkпо Японии, мы, во-первых,поняли, что Саппоро—это лучшее место на островах: и с точки зрения приветливостии улыбчивости окружающих, и с точки зрения климата, бытовых удобств и проч.  Аво-вторых, теперь я отчетливо осознал, что многого мне будет не хватать на Родине,в Москве.  Предложенный список не претендует на полноту.  Я даже думаю, что этоскорее минимальный набор того, к чему очень быстро привыкаешь в Японии, но отчего придется отвыкать в России.  Самое любопытное, что все это в России есть, нонемного другое.  Итак, не хватать будет:1. велосипеда.  Не то, чтобы в Москвене было велосипедов.  Они есть.  
Но ездить на них на работу не принято.  И несколько небезопасно.
2. криков теннисистов (и особенно
теннисисток!) на кортах подокнами кабинета.
3. библиотеки.  Всегда под рукой.  
Не то, чтобы в Москве не былобиблиотек.   Может быть, даженекоторые московские библиотеки и богаче.  Но расстояние
между вами и желаемой книгой With Prof. Manaev from Belarus who wasв Саппоро на порядок короче.
staying in Sapporo at the same time
4. воронов.  Я успел к ним привязаться, несмотря на украденный один раз из велосипедной корзины (см. пункт 1)обед и виртуозно сворованный кусок жареного кальмара (прямо из моих рук!  Елевырвал).  Вороны в Москве тоже есть.  Но не такие наглые.  Их роль с успехом
выполняют бродячие кошки и собаки.  Которых совсем нет в Саппоро.
5. онсенов.  Не то, чтобы в Москве не было бань.  Они есть.  Но вот онсенов нет совсем.
6. детских парков.  Они в Москве тоже есть.  Но в Саппоро их больше, а сами парки
разнообразнее.
7. людей, которые всегда готовы тебе помочь.  Например, подсказать дорогу (дажеесли и сами не знают, куда идти).
Одним словом, жизнь у нас в семье разделилась на то, что было до Саппоро и то,что будет потом.  Посмотрим.
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Publications (2012–2013)
Slavic Studies no. 60, 2013, refereed journal of the SRC (in Japanese with summaries
in English or Russian).
Acta Slavica Iaponica vol. XXXIII, 2012, refereed journal of the SRC (in English andRussian).
Hokkaido Association for Central Eurasian Studies, ed., “Carving the Way for Central
Eurasian Studies: In Commemoration of the 100th Meeting of the Hokkaido Association forCentral Eurasian Studies,” Slavic Eurasia Papers no. 5 (Sapporo: SRC, 2012) (in Japanese).
Olga Timchenko (Ieda Takashi, transl., Ieda Osamu, ed.), “Ionizing Radiation and
Health: What We All Should Know Today,” Slavic Eurasia Papers Special Issue (Sapporo:
SRC, 2013) (in Japanese, English, and Russian).
Nomachi Motoki, ed., “Slavia Islamica: Language, Religion and Identity,” Slavic
Eurasian Studies no. 25 (Sapporo: SRC, 2012) (in Russian, English, etc.)
Publications by the project “Comparative Research: Major Regional Powers in Eurasia”
Nakamura Tadashi, ed., “Imagining the Landscape: Views from Armenia and Japan,”Comparative Studies on Regional Powers no. 12 (Sapporo: SRC, 2013) (in Russian).
The 12th issue of “Regional Powers, Cross-Disciplinary Studies,” a non-periodic publication,
was published in February 2013. This issue contains seven articles based on reports at theinternational round-table conference “Imagining the Landscape” held on September 12, 2012at the Russian-Armenian (Slavic) University in Erevan, Armenia, in which researchers fromArmenia, Russia, and Japan participated. A heated debate took place at the conference, theresults of which are reflected in this issue. The themes of the articles are: transformation of
the city landscape and collective memory in Armenia; literary expeditions by Russian writers
along the Volga in the pre-reform period; images of captivity by Armenian and Japaneseartists; and so on. We can say that this issue is a place where various scientific views on
various cultural objects intersect. The contents of the issue can be downloaded from the
Slavic Research Center website.

Mochizuki Tetsuo and Koshino Go, eds., “Orient on Orient: Images of Asia in EurasianCountries,” Comparative Studies on Regional Powers no. 13 (Sapporo: SRC, 2013) (in English).
The 13th issue of “Comparative Studies on Regional Powers,” a non-periodic publication,
has been published. “Orient on Orient: Images of Asia in Eurasian Countries,” edited by
Tetsuo Mochizuki and Go Koshino, is a collection of 14 papers from the international
symposium with the same title held by the Slavic Research Center and the Scientific Researchon Innovative Areas “Comparative Studies on Major Regional Powers in Eurasia” (Group 6)
from July 7 to 9, 2010. Contributors from various regions mainly discuss self-identification
and representation of Asia in China, India, Russia, and other former Soviet countries. The
collection covers a wide variety of topics ranging from music, cinema, literature, and art,to city planning, colonial policy, ideology, and religion. We observe diversification andconvergence at once in the transformation process of Asian images among major Eurasianregional powers.

Uegaki Akira and Tabata Shinichiro, eds., “Sustainable Economic Development ofRegional Powers in Eurasia,” Series: Comparative Studies on Regional Powers no. 1 (Tokyo:
Minerva Shobo, 2013) (in Japanese).
Tang Liang and Matsuzato Kimitaka, eds., “Models of Government for EurasianRegional Powers,” Series: Comparative Studies on Regional Powers no. 2 (Tokyo: Minerva
Shobo, 2013) (in Japanese).
Iwashita Akihiro, ed., “Reshaping the International Order in Eurasia,” Series: Comparative Studies on Regional Powers no. 3 (Tokyo: Minerva Shobo, 2013) (in Japanese).
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Contents
The SRC to Be Renamed the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center......................................p. 1
The SRC Achieved the Highest Mark “S” as a Result of the Interim Evaluation of
Joint Usage/Research Centers............................................................................... p. 2
The Global COE Program, “Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies,” Entered Its Final Year.....p. 3
Winter International Symposium 2013 “Catastrophe and Resurrection: New
Approaches to a Changing Slavic Eurasia”............................................................. p. 5
Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Comparative Researchon Major Regional Powers in Eurasia”................................................................... p. 6
The Fifth East Asian Conference on Slavic Eurasian Studies Was Held at Osaka
University of Economics and Law by Matsuzato Kimitaka..................................... p. 8
Foreign Visitors Fellowship Program............................................................................ p. 9
Our Current Staff........................................................................................................p. 10
Ongoing Cooperative Research Projects.....................................................................p. 11
Visitors from Abroad...................................................................................................p. 12
Guest Lecturers from Abroad......................................................................................p. 13
Essay: Undivided Attention: Scholarship and Life in Sapporo by Jane Burbank............p. 14
Essay: Искусство нюансов: несколько вещей, которых мне не хватало в Япониии будет не хватать в Москве после поездки в Японию by Ilya Zaytsev..............p. 16
Publications (2012–2013).............................................................................................p. 18
The Library..................................................................................................................p. 19

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