RECORDS OF THE JAPANESE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Record of the Japanese Archaeological Association
HAGINOYA Satoru1
There were 3,923 regular members and 34 supporting members of the JapaneseArchaeological Association at the end of ﬁscal 2020. Although the number is in a slightdecline, many Japanese archaeologists belong to the Association.
While activities of ﬁscal 2020 were largely inﬂuenced by the spread of the novel corona
virus (COVID-19) and a part of operations had to be suspended or delayed, on the wholemany results were achieved.
The general meeting was planned to be held on May 23 and 24 at Ikuta Campus ofSenshu University (Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture), but instead it was forced to beheld in the form of a written resolution. The memorial lecture was cancelled, and researchpresentations and poster sessions were only via publication. The convention which wasbeing planned to take place at Kanazawa University (Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture)
in October was canceled and all the schedule was delayed to ﬁscal 2021.
At the general meeting, 23 new board directors were elected (two-year term) anddirector TSUJI Hideto was elected as the chairman at the board of directors meeting heldlater. A new executive body was organized under Chairman Tsuji.
Also, NISHITANI Tadashi was approved as an honorable member of the Associationat the general meeting. He made an enormous contribution to archaeology and theAssociation, with his major research ﬁeld East Asian prehistory, serving as a professor
at Kyushu University for a long time, and took a role of the Association chairman fromﬁscal 2006 to 2007. The award will take place at the next general meeting. Also, selectionof SHINZATO Akito’s Ryukyukoku Seiritsu Zenya no Kokogaku (Archaeology of theNight Before the Formation of Ryukyu Nation) (2018, Tokyo) and MATSUMOTO
Keita’s Yurashia Sogen Chitai no Seidoki Jidai (Bronze Age in Grasslands of Eurasia)
was reported and approved as encouragement awards of the Japanese ArchaeologicalAssociation Awards. A certiﬁcate and a memento were sent to both members instead ofawarding at the general meeting.
As for regular activities, there were publications of annual reports of the Association
Archaeological Japonica 71 and 72, the journal of the Association Nihon Kokogaku No. 50
and 51, and an English journal Japanese Journal of Archaeology Vol. 8 (No. 1, No. 2).
1 Hitachiomiya City Board of Education, 3135–6 Nakatomi-cho, Hitachiomiya-shi, Ibaraki 319–2265, Japan(s.haginoya@bf7.so-net.ne.jp)

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ARCHAEOLOGIAJAPONICAA special note should be taken on the Chairman’s statement demanding total
preservation of Takanawa Embankment remains (Minato Ward, Tokyo). Although it is asigniﬁcant cultural heritage as a railroad facility of Japan’s early modernization era thatwas preserved in an excellent condition, the developer of the site, JR East still have notchanged their mind to destruct most of the site in exchange for preservation of only a smallpart of the site.
Other than the above, each committee of the Association is actively working in ﬁelds
such as preservation of buried cultural properties, improvement of research environment,
public relations, sending information to overseas, the relationship between historicaleducation and archaeology, measures against disasters, and so on.

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