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Literature, Arts, and Cultural Studies (August 2016–July 2017)

Research presentations * The Japan Association of the Study of Russian Language and Literature (JASRLL: Nihon Roshia Bungakukai) held its 66th Annual Assembly at Hokkaido University (Sapporo City) on Nov. 22 and 23, 2016. The following papers were read: «Гендерные образы в романе “Гнев Диониса” Е. Некрасова» by Sunao Yasuno; «Образ “Я” в романе “Крещеный Китаец” Андрея Белого» by Takashi Matsumoto; “Remizov’s Fiction and Nonfiction” by Hikaru Ogura; «История становления образа коммуниста в романе Ю. Олеши “Зависть”» by Michiko Komiya; «Язык как прикрытие: шахматы и язык в романе “Защита Лужина” В. Набокова» by Naoya Sawa; «Эхо Пушкина в Корее: стихи “Если жизнь тебя обманет...” и парикмахерскиe картинки» by Ji-Eun Sim; «Два портрета: вопрос о моральности в искусстве» by Jhee-Cha Won; «Роль медиа в появле- нии первых музеев им. Л. Н. Толстого: японские материалы в Толстовском музее в Петербурге» by Aleksandr Aleksandrov; «Отблески Андрея Белого в портретах некоторых персонажей Газданова» by Elmira Aleksandrova; «Чу- жие слова как коллаж из “следов” культурной памяти: О художественном методе в “Поэме без героя” Анны Ахматовой» by Tsung-huei Hsiung; “Statues in the Poetry of Joseph Brodsky” by Takehiko Seki; «Ученик чародея: образ футуриста в произведениях Даниила Хармса» by Hiroaki Ozawa; «Числа Флоренского» by Ryoko Yamaguchi; «“Подтекст” в системе Стани­славского» by Kensuke Uchida; “The Real Images of Ballets Created by Marius Petipa” by Ku- miko Murayama; «Мысль о музыке В. Ф. Одоевского в начале “Глинкинского периода” — вокруг его отношения с М. И. Глинкой» by Reiya Miura; «Мо- ноопера “Дневник Анны Франк” — “современная музыка”, описывающая девушку в эпоху нацизма» by Kieko Kamitake; «Повествователь эпилога романа “Преступление и наказание” Ф. М. Достоевского» by Saki Tanaka; «Конструкция и составные элементы в “легенде о Великом Инквизиторе” и в романе “Братья Карамазовы”» by Ineko Higuchi; «Духовные наставники молодых нигилистов в творчестве Ф. М. Достоевского» by Naohito Saisu;

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«Тема мимесиса (подражание искусства действительности) в творчестве И. А. Бунина 1910-х гг.» by Takako Tago; “The Representation of Southern Russia and Caucasus in the Period of Russian Civil War in Andrei Platonov’s The Innermost Man” by Akira Furukawa; «Собор и музей: о концепции куль- туры О. Мандельштама и А. Сокурова» by Sum-Yung Park; «О выборе ос- новного источника первой книги романа А. Н. Толстого “Петр Первый”» by Anna Akimva; «Советские кино / литературные репрезентации шпио- нажа в конспирологической перспективе» by Valerii Viugin; «Воздушный шар в новой русской литературе» by Tomoyo Kana­zawa; «Николай Шпанов и образ первого в советской литературе частного сыщика — Нила Кру- чинина» by Norio Sakanaka; «Произведения А. С. Пушкина после путеше- ствия по Кавказу и Крыму» by Shigeko Horikoshi; «Открытие М. Булгако- ва и О. Мандельштама в СССР» by Vladimir Zhdanov and Junichi Suzuki; «“История советской фантастики” Р. С. Каца. Ее литературное значение и отзвуки» by Hiroaki Umemura; «Иакинф Бичурин и китайская культура» by Chiaki Kuroyanagi; «О историческом сказании “Вещий инок” Шабель- ского-Борка» by Tsutomu Tsukada; «Иконографическая программа первого иконостаса в соборе Воскресения Христова в Токио» by Izumi Miyazaki; and «Опровержение имяславия Митрополитом Антонием (Храповиц- ким): Религиозная мысль “психологизма”» by Kei Watanabe. A workshop «Московский концептуализм: о “начале” его движения и теоризации» was held in which Rieko Kamioka, Enichi Ikuma, Aya Kawamura, and Yuya Suzuki participated; a workshop «Трогать, видеть, слушать: новые подходы к новой литературе (на примере Маканина, Пригова и Алексиевич)» was held in which Tetsuo Mochizuki, Valerii Viugin, Chan Huyn Min, Li Chzhi En, and Go Koshino participated.

Journals * Roshiago Roshiabungaku Kenkyū (The Bulletin of the Japanese Association of Russian Scholars), Number 49 (2017), includes the following articles: “A Turn of Breath: Relations with Things in the Collective Actions Group” by Gen’ichi Ikuma; “Numbers of Pavel Florensky: From Pythagorean Numbers to Person- ality” by Ruri Hosokawa; “Two Kinds of ‘Subtexts’ in the Stanislavski System” by Kensuke Uchida; “An Interpretation of Confucianism by Russian Sinologist Hyacinth Bichurin: On His Translation The Religion of Savants” by Chiaki Ku-

100 CHRONICLE royanagi; “Humility in the Teachings of the 18th Century Saint Tikhon Zadon- sky and the Problem of Stavrogin’s Salvation in Dostoyevsky’s Novel Demons” by Naohito Saisu; “On the Choice of the Main Source of the First Book of A. N. Tolstoy’s Peter I” by Anna Akimova; “Void and State: The View on Nationalism in the Novels of Victor Perevin” by Hiroshi Sasayama.

Books * Kondo, Masao, Nobuaki Kaku, Manami Kashimoto, Esuke Takada, and Michiyo Arai. The Narrative Space of Russia. Tokyo: Suisei Sha, Apr. 2017. * Wakabayashi, Yu. Russian Revolution in Satires and Anecdotes. Tokyo: Gendai Shokan, Oct. 2017. * Kameyama, Ikuo, and Mitsuyoshi Numano. The Mystery of the Hundred Years of Russian Revolution. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, Oct. 2017. * Nakamura, Yoshikazu, Mitsuo Naganawa, Kazuhiko Sawada, and Petr Po- dalko. Living on an Alien Soil. IV. The Footsteps of Émigré Russians in Japan. Tokyo: Seibun Sha, Sept. 2016. * Mochizuki, Tsuneko. Reading Chekhov’s “The Valley.” Tokyo: Nauka, Apr. 2016. * Nonaka, Susumu, Hiroko Momiuchi, and Kyoko Numano, eds. Japanese Lite­ rature in the World; In the Education of Literature in the Former Soviet Countries. Urawa: The Institute of Human Sciences. The University of Saitama, June, 2016. * Takahashi, Seiichiro. The Nostalgia for Press: Shiki Masaoka and “Clouds on the Hill.” Tokyo: Jinmon Shoin, Nov. 2015. * Numano, Mitsuyoshi. Anton Chekhov: Seven-Tenth Despair and Three- Tenth Hope. Tokyo: Kodan Sha, Jan. 2016. * Norimatsu, Kyohei. Russia or the Apparition of the Opposition: Postmodernity of the Second World. Tokyo: Kodan sha, Dec. 2015. (Takayuki Yokota-Murakami)

Linguistics (December 2016–November 2017)

Conferences * At the Annual Research Meeting of the Japan Society for the Study of Slavic Languages and Literatures, held at the University of Tokyo on March 21, 2017, the following two papers were presented: “The Formation and Spread of Mod-

101 CHRONICLE ern Literary Belorussian and the Problem of Language Purification” by Shiori Kiyosawa; “The Completion of PDIC Czech-Japanese Digital Dictionary and the Possibility of an Integrated Digital Dictionary of Slavic Languages: Realization of the Dream” by Tatsuo Ishikawa. * At the Annual Symposium of the Japan Society for the Study of Slavic Lan- guages and Literatures, held at Sophia University in Tokyo on June 17, 2017, titled “Baltic Languages and their Neighbors: Problems in Contact of Ethnic Groups and Languages,” the following four papers were presented: “Multilingual- ism in Lithuania: In Comparison with the Latvian Situation” by Eiko Sakurai; “Belarusians in Baltic Countries and Their Language” by Shiori Kiyosawa; and “Turkic Languages as Minority Languages in Balto-Slavic Countries: With Spe- cial Reference to the Karaim and the Gagauz Languages” by Yū Kuribayashi; “Language Contacts and Language Changes in Baltic Rim Countries” by Keiko Mitani. Additionally, two special lectures were given: “Attitudes Toward For- eign Languages in the Baltic States: The Case of the Education Sector” by Ineta Dabašinskienė; and “Slavic Perspective Expressions in an Interdisciplinary Age” by Olga T. Yokoyama. * At the 154th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, held at Tokyo Metropolitan University on June 24–25, 2017, a paper titled “Word Formation and the Opposition of Hard-Soft Consonants in Polish,” was presented by Naoya Watanabe. At a workshop named “Linguistics of Possession: To Have, or Not to Have,” a paper titled “The Relationship between a Whole and Parts Expressed by Possession and Existential Constructions in Czech” by Kenshiro Asaoka, was presented. Additionally, at the poster session, a presentation titled “Phonological Condition of Vowel Fronting in Common Slavonic,” was made by Yūsuke Ōyama. * At the 67th Annual Assembly of the Japan Association for the Study of Rus- sian Language and Literature (JASRLL), held at Sophia University in Tokyo on October 14–15, 2017, the following nine papers were presented at the section meetings for linguistics and language education: «О существительных, кото- рые называют людей и имеют родовые пары в русском языке» by Asuka Mitsui; «Лексические (словообразовательные) и грамматические способы выражения идеи ПРЕДЕЛА ДЕЙСТВИЯ в русском и японском языках» by Yuriko Kaneko; «Стихотворения как дидактический материал для по- становки произношения и интонации у японских студентов» by Svetlana Latysheva; «Языковые особенности в автографе Пахомия Серба (Логофета):

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на материале “Жития Сергия Радонежского”» by Yukiko Maruyama; «Ак- центовки и их стилистические функции в “Житии протопопа Аввакума”» by Tadanobu Аoyama; «Отсутствие чередования беглых гласных в парадиг- ме» by Naoya Watanabe; «Условия употребления возвратного притяжатель- ного местоимения “свой”, стоящего в обстоятельстве и имеющего своим ан- тецедентом предложно-падежную форму “у+род”» by Yuki Nakano; «Анализ употребления обращений в русском языке с точки зрения “Вежливости” П. Брауна и С. Левинстона» by Tomo Higashide; «Русско-японский словарь в архиве монастыря Зограф на Святой Горе Афон» by Yoshinori Onda. Also, a panel session on the textual study of medieval Slavic writing, titled “Между источниками и списками: текстологические исследования средневековой славянской письменности,” was organized, and three papers were presented by Aleksandr Moldovan, Fumiaki Hattori, and Keiko Mitani. * At the 155th General Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan, held at Rit- sumeikan University in Kyoto on November 25–26, 2017, the following two papers were presented: “Diphthongal Edge-Effect in the Sound Change from Proto-Indo-European *ōi to Common Slavonic y” by Yūsuke Ōyama; and “On ‘I Have School’ Expressed by the Czech Possessive Verb Mít” by Kenshiro Asaoka.

Monographs * Volume 20 of Slavia Iaponica: Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Bulletin of the Japan Society for the Study of Slavic Languages and Litera- tures, published in March 2017, contains following two papers: “Identity at the Borders of Closely-Related Ethnic Groups in the Silesia Region” by Zbigniew Greń; and “Aspect and the -l Participle Forms in Bulgarian” by Eleonora Yov­ kova-Shii. The volume also contains five special articles contributed by scholars invited to give lectures at meetings of the society in the years 2015–2017, titled “Pragmatic Motivation as a Factor for Lexical Differentiation in Slavic and Balkan Languages” by Marjan Markovikj; “Cultural Studies of Slavic Microlanguages in Present-Day Slavistics” by Aleksandr Dulichenko; “Iz vokalizma i prozodije čakavskoga govora Primoštena Burnjega” by Sanja Vulić; “Wpływy słowiańskie na język i gwary niemieckie” by Janusz Siakowski; and “Nazwiska Polaków w ujęciu geograficznym” by Dorota Rembiszewska. * Volume 32 of Slavistika, Annals of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the University of Tokyo, issued in June 2017, contains the follow-

103 CHRONICLE ing six articles to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the birth of Roman Jakobson, titled “Encounters with Roman Jakobson” by Olga T. Yokoyama; “The Generation that Wasted their Poets” by Takashi Kuwano; “Тень Якобсона: Проб- ный обзор вопроса «реальность — язык — система» в истории советской семиотики” by Tadashi Nakamura; “On the Conflict between Roman Jakobson and Vladimir Nabokov: The Elephant, Igor’ and the Soviet Agent” by Mitsuyoshi Numano; “Jakobson and his Elder Friends” by Yoichi Ohira; and “Inscription of Solomon’s Chalice in Chapter 13 of “Vita Constantini”: Revisiting Jakobson’s Contribution to the Slavic Philology” by Keiko Mitani. The volume also contains two papers, titled “Вид глаголов в предложениях с союзом “потому что”» by Shōgo Tsunetō; and “On the Origin of the Masculine Nominative Singular Ending in -e in Old Novgorod Dialect” by Yūsuke Ōyama. Additionally, the journal contains a Japanese translation and commentary of the medieval Rus- sian text, “Tale of the Sack of Constantinople by Crusaders in the Year 1204” («Повесть о взятии Царьграда крестоносцами в 1204 году») by Kiyoharu Miura and Tomohiro Hirano. * Volume 24 of Studia Philologica Palaeorussica (Kodai Rosiya Kenkyū), the Bulletin of the Japan Society for Studies of Old Russian Language, Literature, and Culture, issued in August 2017, contains “Japanese Translation and Commen- tary of the Suzdal’ Chronicle, Part 4,” the result of group study by the members of the society. It also contains a research note, titled “Тенденции исследования политической системы Новгорода в удельный период” by Yūya Oikawa and a “Japanese Translation and Commentary of the Tale of Pskov-Caves Monastery” (Повесть о Псково-Печерском монастыре) by Kiyoharu Miura. * Volume 8 of Roshiago Kyōiku Kenkyū (Problems in Russian Language Edu- cation), the bulletin of the Japan Association for the Study of Russian Language Education, published in September 2017, contains the following two papers: “Необходимость обучения узкоспециальной лексике: Преимущественно об эффективности обучения лексике ТРКИ в публицистической сфере» by Gōta Sayama; and “Medium of Instruction and Teacher Identity in Russian as a Foreign Language Education in Japan: Redefining the Native Speaking Teach- er” by Kanae Hayashi and Sachiko Yokoi. The volume also contains the following two research notes: “Требования модуля “История России” в “Комплексном экзамене для иностранных граждан” и обучение русскому языку в Японии» by Kiyoshi Kobayashi; and “Новейшие тенденции преподавания русского

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языка в Японии: Подход к преподаванию русского языка как языка между- народного общения” by Rie Hayashi. Additionally, the journal contains a report of the experience of teaching Russian as a lecturer of NHK radio course, “Из опыта преподавания русского языка на радио NHK” by Yukiko Kuroiwa. * Volume 27 of Roshiago Kenkyū (Studies in Russian Language), Annals of the Mokujikai Society, issued in October 2017, contains a record of the lecture given upon the occasion of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the society, titled “О некоторых особенностях выражения пространственных отношений в украинском языке” by Hidehiko Nakazawa. The volume also contains the following three papers, titled “Identification and Discrimination of Russian Incomplete Word-Final Devoicing by Native and Non-native Listeners: A Pilot Study” by Mayuki Matsui; “Отсутствие смягчения в русских заимствованных словах” by Naoya Watabe; and “The Structure of Russian Nominal Phrases and their Grammatical Features” by Gō Hikita. Additionally, the journal contains a Japanese translation of the life of one saint contained in the Codex Suprasliensis, titled «“Страдание святого мученика Василиска” из Супрасльской рукопи- си» by Yoshinori Onda. (Akihiro Sato)

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Political Science (August 2016–July 2017)

Oral Reports * The Annual Convention of the Japan Association of International Relations (Nihon Kokusai Seiji Gakkai) was held at the International Convention Hall of Makuhari Messe, October 14–16, 2016. In a panel titled “Imperial, Post-Im- perial, or Pre-Imperial? Global Power Shifts in Historical Perspective,” Marlène Laruelle (George Washington University) read a paper titled “Russia in Eurasia: Neo-Empire, Post-Imperial, Regional Hegemon?” In a session dedicated to the theme of “Refugees and Immigrants: Memory Inheritance in 20th Century Euro-­ Japanese Relations,” the following papers were read: “The Phenomena of Past and Memory: Chiune Sugihara’s Activities in Lithuania 1939–40” by Simonas Strelcovas (Siauliai University); “Current Trends and Issues in Studies of Chi- une Sugihara: At the Beginning of the Third Stage” by Masaaki Shiraishi; and

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“Transformation of Historical Memory in Changing International Situations: Population Transfer in 20th Century Europe and Its Narratives” by Atsuko Ka- wakita. In a session titled “Areas in Relations,” the following three presentations were made: “Development Aid to Central Asian Countries and Norm: The Case of the Water Resource Issue” by Ryota Saito; “The Establishment and Develop- ment of Arctic Regional Cooperation System” by Fujio Onishi; and “Split and Contradiction in Serbian Politics over War Responsibility” by Keiichi Kubo. In a session titled “Minority Protection in Europe,” Takashi Yamakawa read a paper titled “Minority Protection System in Contemporary Croatia: ‘Nationali- zation’ and ‘Europeanization.’” In another session, titled “Multi-Layered Security Governance for Conflict Resolution and Peace Building,” Masataka Nakauchi read a paper titled “Security Governance in the Former Yugoslav Countries: Different Objectives of International Actors and Local Actors.” * The Japanese Association for Russian and East European Studies (Roshia Tōō Gakkai, or JAREES) and JSSEES jointly sponsored the Annual Conven- tion at Kyoto Women’s University on October 29–30, 2016. In the opening ses- sion, titled “A World in Flux and Putin’s Russia,” the following papers dedicat- ed to political issues were read: “The Regime and Oppositions in Russia after Putin’s Return to Power” by Mari Aburamoto; “Syrian Civil War and Russia” by Hidemitsu Kuroki; “Transformation of International Politics and Russian Diplomacy” by Naomi Koizumi; Russia’s Strategies toward Eurasia and the United States: A Challenge to Democracy or the Pursuit of Sovereignty and Hegemony?” by Tomohiko Uyama; and “The New Government in Poland and Europe” by Akio Komorida. In an open split session dedicated to political is- sues in Eastern Europe, the following reports were presented: “Foreign Policy of Communist China toward the Polish Crisis and Hungarian Revolt in 1956” by Du Shixin; “Hungary’s Foreign Policy in the Period of Systemic Change (1988–1989) and Human Migratory Movement” by Akira Ogino; “East Germa- ny’s Foreign Policy toward the “Prague Spring” by Satoshi Shimizu; and “Events from 1987 to 1989 in East Germany” by Kunihiko Aoki. In an open split session on the Russian political situation, the following papers were read: “Foreign Policy of Russia under Economic Sanctions toward Asia” by Mihoko Kato; “Russia’s Use or Nonuse of Military Force” by Hiroshi Yamazoe; and “The Present Situation of Nursing Care for the Elderly in Russia: The Case of St. Petersburg” by Noriko Igarashi. In another open split session, the following papers were read: “Polit-

106 CHRONICLE ical Movement of Russian Speakers for Autonomy in North-Eastern Estonia (1988–1991)” by Keiji Sato; “Japan’s Policy and Strategy toward Central Asia after the Cold War” by Mahmudov Umid; and “Historical Memory of Individuals in Post-Maidan Ukraine: Quantitative Analysis of the Nationwide Survey Data” by Sanshiro Hosaka. * The Annual Convention of the Japan Association for Comparative Politics (Nihon Hikaku Seiji Gakkai) was held at Seikei University on June 17–18, 2017. In a panel called “Comparative Politics of Designs for Democracy: Democracy in Postwar Europe in the 1940s,” a paper titled “Political Parties and Democra- cy in the Age of ‘People’s Democracy’: The Case of the National Socialist Party in Czechoslovakia,” was read by Mizuho Nakada. In another panel called “Com- parative Politics of Presidentialization,” Shuhei Mizoguchi read a paper titled “Presidential System in Russia and ‘Presidentialization’: The Use of Legislative Power by the President and a Change in Governance Style.” * Slavic-Eurasian Research Center of Hokkaido University organized an in- ternational symposium dedicated to the theme of “25 Years After: Post-Com- munism’s Vibrant Diversity” at Hokkaido University on December 8–9, 2016. In a session called “Transition or Not among Germany’s Neighbors,” the fol- lowing papers were read: Signs of Deterritorialization?: Linguistic Landscape at the German-Polish Border” by Goro Christoph Kimura; “German-Polish Border from the Systemic Transformation until European Integration of the Present Day” by Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast (European Viadrina European Uni- versity); and “The Danish-German Border Region: Caught between Systemic Differences and Rebordering. Difficulties of Integrative Cooperation in a Pacified European Border Region” by Martin Klatt (University of Southern Denmark). In a session called “Family and the State in Post-Communist Societies,” the following papers were read: “Support to Families with Children in the Baltic States: Pathways of Expansion and Retrenchment from 2004 to the Present” by Jolanta Aidukaite (Lithuanian Social Research Center); “Coping with a De- clining Birthrate: Comparing Eastern Europe with Japan” by Manabu Sengoku; and “Elderly Care in Post-Soviet Russia” by Noriko Igarashi. In a session called “Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Eurasia,” the following three reports were presented: “Exploring Variation in the Political-Criminal Nexus of Post-Soviet Eurasia” by Alexander Kupatadze (King’s College London); “Informal Exchanges in Education in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan” by Dina Sharipova (KIMEP Universi-

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Books * Asada, Masafumi, ed. International Politics of the Soviet Union and East Asia, 1919–1941. Misuzu Shobo, 2017. * Horibayashi, Takumi. Capitalism and the Welfare System in Central and Eastern Europe: From Post-Socialism to Where? Junposha, 2016. * Ishigooka, Ken, and Yukiko Kuroiwa. An Elementary Knowledge of the North­ ern Territories. Toyoshoten-Shinsha, 2016. * Kiumra, Hiroshi. Putin and His Domestic Policy. Fujiwara-Shoten, 2016. * Koizumi, Yu. Putin’s National Strategy: Russia as a Great Power at the Cross­ roads. Tokyodo, 2016. * Matsudo, Kiyohiro. The Soviet Experiment: Can a State-Managed Democracy Work? Chikumashobo, 2017. * Mutsushika, Shigeo, ed. International Relations in the Black Sea Region. The University of Nagoya Press, 2017. * Shimotomai, Nobuo. Russia from the Point of View of Religion and Geopolitics: Putin Aiming at ‘the Third Rome.’ Nikkei Publishing, 2016. * Togo, Kazuhiko, and Aleksandr Panov, eds. Russia and Japan: Comparative Analysis of the History of Self-Identification. University of Tokyo Press, 2016. * Tsuruta, Yoshio. Russian Education in the Process of Change. Kindaibungei- sha, 2016. * Yamauchi, Masayuki, ed. Geopolitics of the Middle East and ISIS: Islam, America, and Russia in the 21st Century. Asahi Shimbun Publications, 2017. (Jun Yoshioka)

Economics (January 2017–December 2017)

Oral Reports * The 2nd World Congress of Comparative Economics, “1917–2017: Revo­lution and Evolution in Economic Development,” was held in St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 15–17, 2017. Reports presented by Japanese economists were: “A Comparative Analysis of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in Russia, China, and India” by Masaaki Kuboniwa (Hitotsubashi University); “India in the World Economy: Inferences

108 CHRONICLE from Empirics of Economic Growth” by Takahiro Sato (Kobe University); “The Economic Nexus between China and Emerging Economies” by Tomoo Maruka- wa (The University of Tokyo); “State Budget of Russia after 2014” by Shinichiro Tabata (Hokkaido University); “Corruption in Auctions of Land-Use Rights: Empirical Assessment of Seven Chinese Cities” by Kai Kajitani (Kobe University); “Energy Consumption and Economic Growth in India” by Atsushi Fukumi (Uni- versity of Hyogo); “The Birth of ‘Soviet Jeans,’” by Katsumi Fujiwara (Osaka Uni- versity); “Unpredicted Economic Difficulties in the Historical Socialist System” by Masashi Morioka (Ritsumeikan University); “Forced Savings in the Soviet Re- publics: A Re-examination” by Yoshisada Shida (Hitotsubashi University); “How “Embedded Market Mechanism” Worked: Prices and Commodities in the Kolk- hoz Markets of the Soviet Planned Economy under the Stalin Regime” by Takeo Hidai (Saitama Gakuen University); “An Estimation of Production Indices for Industry and Agriculture in Imperial Russia” by Manabu Suhara Suhara (Nihon University); “Estimating GDP Growth and Volatility in the Russian Empire and Soviet Russia: 1860–1990” by Masaaki Kuboniwa (Hitotsubashi University); “Analysis of the State Budget of Russia in the Past Two Centuries” by Shinichiro Tabata (Hokkaido University); “Economic and Political Motivations in Debt Finance in China: Bank Lending and Trade Credit Offering” by Go Yano (Kyoto University) and Maho Shiraishi (University of Kitakyushu); “Firms’ Risks and their Lifecycles, Financial Access” by Maho Shiraishi (University of Kitakyushu) and Go Yano (Kyoto University); “The Effect of Compulsory Education Expan- sion on Investments for Children’s Education” by Naomi Kodama (Hitotsubashi University), Tomohiko Inui (Gakushuin University), and Mamoru Nagashima (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies); “Dynamics of Business-State Relations in the Putin Era: State Management and Governance of Russia’s Stra- tegic Companies under Putin” by Yuko Adachi (Sophia University); “Political Economy of International Assistance in Transition Economies: An Analytical Literature Survey” by Fumikazu Sugiura (Teikyo University); “Regime Change and Environment Reform: An Analytical Survey of the Transition Literature” by Masahiro Tokunaga (Kansai University); “The Determinants of Economic Crisis and Recovery in Transition Economies: A Meta-Analysis” by Ichiro Iwa- saki (Hitotsubashi University) and Kazuhiro Kumo (Hitotsubashi University); “Economic Transition and International Trade: A Meta-Analysis” by Kazuhiro Kumo (Hitotsubashi University) and Akira Uegaki (Seinan Gakuin University);

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“Systemic Transformation and Human Resource Management: An Analytical Survey of the Transition Literature” by Norio Horie (University of Toyama) and Kazuhiro Kumo (Hitotsubashi University); “Ownership Concentration and Firm Performance in Transition Economies: A Meta-Analysis” by Satoshi Mizobata (Kyoto University) and Ichiro Iwasaki (Hitotsubashi University); “Global and Regional Supply-Value Chains Between the Eurasian Union (Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus) and the European Union” by Masaaki Kuboniwa (Hitotsubashi University); “An Analysis of Trade Flows in the Eurasian Economic Union” by Yugo Konno (Mizuho Research Institute Ltd.); “Processes and Perspectives of Euro Adoption by Central European Countries” by Yusuke Matsuzawa (Bunri University of Hospitality); “Corporate Governance System in Russia: Is East Dif- ferent from West?” by Ichiro Iwasaki (Hitotsubashi University); “Market Quality in the Russian Far East from the Viewpoint of Company Management” by Norio Horie (University of Toyama); “Impacts of Economic Sanctions on Russian Re- gions” by Yoshisada Shida (Hitotsubashi University); “The Political Economy of Transition: Analytical Literature Survey and Meta-Analysis” by Fumikazu Sugiura (Teikyo University); “Logistics Environment in Eastern Russia: From the Viewpoint of Company Management” by Hirofumi Arai (Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia); “Fringe Benefits in Eastern Russia as Compared with the Northwestern Region” by Mayu Michigami (Niigata University); “Some Recent Empirical Studies on the Russian Economy” by Masaaki Kuboniwa (Hi- totsubashi University); “Social Inclusion in Russia in Terms of the Way of Middle Class Formation” by Hiroaki Hayashi (Ritsumeikan University); and “Financial Inclusion in Russia: Myth or Reality?” by Victor Gorshkov (Kaichi International University). * The 57th Congress of the Japanese Association for Comparative Economic Systems was held on September 16–17, 2017, at Kansai University. The main ses- sion was devoted to the topic of “Toward World-Class Comparative Economics.” In the session, six reports were presented, as follows: “Anticorruption, Safety Compliance and Coal Mine Deaths: Evidence from China” by Gang Xu (Kyoto University); “Land Rental Development via Institutional Innovation in Rural Jiangsu, China: Insights From a Transition Economy Perspective” by Junichi Ito (Kyoto University); “Politico-Economics of Over-Investment in Regional China: An Experimental Study Based on Provincial Panel Data” by Kohei Mitsunami (Teikyo University) and Katsuji Nakagane (The University of Tokyo); “Analysis

110 CHRONICLE of the Expansion of Oasis in Central Asia Using Historical GIS” by Akisa Ueda (Hokkaido University); “Inefficiency of Public Assistance in Russia” by Yuka Takeda (Kyushu University); and “Happiness and Trust in Transition Countries: An Empirical Analysis Based on Life in Transition Survey I–III” by Masashi Hiwatari (Hokkaido University) and Daichi Yamada (Hokkaido University). In an invited speech section, which was called “100 Years of the Russian Revolution,” one report was presented: “The Russian Revolution and the Century of the Soviet Union” by Kiyohiro Matsudo (Hokkai Gakuen University). In a panel session called “Systematic Surveys and Meta-Analysis of Studies of Transition Economies,” the following three papers were presented: “Ownership Concentration and Management Performance in Transition Countries” by Ichiro Iwasaki (Hitotsubashi University) and Satoshi Mizobata (Kyoto University); “Causes and Effects of Corruption in Transition Countries” by Taku Suzuki (Tei- kyo University) and Satoshi Mizobata (Kyoto University); and “Collapse of the COMECON System and Trade among Transition Economies” by Akira Uegaki (Seinan Gakuin University) and Kazuhiro Kumo (Hitotsubashi University). In the free split sessions, three reports were read: “Condition and the Subjec- tive World of Critics of the Establishment In North Korea” by Makoto Kurosaka (Osaka University of Economics); “Effects of Sanctions against the Russian Economy on Russian Firms: Comparative Analysis of East and West Russia” by Yoshisada Shida (ERINA); and “Start-Up and Regional Vitalization: The Case of Kazakhstan” by Viktoriya Kan (Teikyo University).

Monographs * Japanese Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 54, No. 1, issued in January 2016 by the Association for Comparative Economic Systems, contains the fol- lowing articles: “Will the Alliance between Liberalism and Democracy be Over?: In the Context of Neoliberal Globalization” by Yoshio Miyake (Chiba University); “The Future of Globalization: Beyond Free Investment with Ubiquitous Fictitious Capital” by Makoto Nishibe (Hokkaido University); “On the Persistency of the Capitalist Economic System” by Naoki Yoshihara (University of Massachusetts Amherst); “Notes on Russia’s Informal GDP, 1960–1990” by Yoshisada Shida (Hitotsubashi University) * Japanese Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 54, No. 2, issued in June 2016, contains the following papers: “The Influence of Globalization on the Rus-

111 CHRONICLE sian Fashion Industry” by Katsumi Fujiwara (Osaka University); and “Change in the Trade Structure of China’s IT-Related Products Focusing on the East Asia Region” by Ryo Ikebe (Senshu University).

Books * Havlik, Peter, and Ichiro Iwasaki, eds. Economics of European Crises and Emerging Markets. Palgrave Macmillan, London, United Kingdom, 2017. (in English) * Karabchuk, Tatiyana, Kazuhiro Kumo, and Ekaterina Selezneva. Demography of Russia: From the Past to the Present. Palgrave Macmillan, London, United Kingdom, 2017. (in English) (Kazuhiro Kumo) III

History and Social Thought (August 2016–July 2017)

Oral Reports * At the monthly meetings of the Society for the Study of Russian History (Roshiashi kenkyuukai) that were held throughout the year, the following re- ports were presented: “South Ukraine: Political and Economic Situation, on the Ground of Materials of Leftist Researchs in 2015–2016” by Nikolai Mitrokhin (Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University); Book Review of “Criticism of Sta­ lin in 1953–1956” by Haruki Wada (The University of Tokyo); “Czechoslovakian Army at the Revolutionary Period in Russia: Why Did Happen Uprising in May 1918?” by Tadayuki Hayashi (Kyoto Women’s University); “Overall Statisti- cal Data For Siberia and the Russian Far East for the Period from the Revolu- tion to the 1950s” by Stephen G. Wheatcroft (University of Melbourne); “The Khabarovsk Trials of 1949 and the Cold War’s Diplomacy” by Viktoria Romanova (I. M. Se­chenov First Moscow State Medical University); Book Review of “An Experiment called Soviet Union : Is Democracy Controlled by State Possible?” by Kiyohiro Matsudo (Hokkaigakuen University). * The annual session of the Society for the Study of Russian History was held at the Tohoku University on October 8 and 9, 2016 and the following reports were presented: “Roll of the State in Medical Treatment at the Last Years of Im- perial Russia” by Naoko Hirooka (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); “White

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Russian Students in the Manchurian Kenkoku University” by Elena Dmitrieva (Okayama University); “Marriage of Muslims and “Islam Law” in the Volga-Ural Region at the Second Half of Nineteenth to the Beginning of Twentieth Centu- ries” by Masumi Isogai (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies); “Perestroika and Environmental Problems: Policy-Making Prosecces around The Aral-Sea Relief” by Tetsuro Chida (Hokkaido University ). At the Panel Report entitled “Nomadic World in Imperial System: ‘Co-operaters’ to the Imperial Power from Kalmy- kian, Kazkh and Kirgiz Nomadic people”, two panels were presented: “Renewal of Reign and Cooperation System in Kalmyk Steppe Society in Nineteenth Cen- tury” by Takehiko Inoue (Tohoku University); “ ‘Conjugation’ of Russian Empire and Kazakh Steppe World from the Second Half of Eighteenth to the First Half of Nineteenth Centuries” by Hideyuki Naganuma (The University of Tokyo). At the Other Panel Report entitled “Migration in the Russo-Eurasian World and Atlantic-Pacific See World”, three panels were presented: “Non-Russian People in Russian Official World in the Second Half of Nineteenth Century” by Yoshihide Tanaka (Miyagi University of Education); “North-East Eurasia under the Russo-Chinese Contact and Eight-flags System” by Kiyohiko Sugiyama (The University of Tokyo); “Legacy of Inter-continental Migration in Canadian History---From Migrants from Ukraine to the Realization of Multiculturalism” by Hiroshi Tsuda (University of Tsukuba). At the Common Session entitled “Religious Problems in Russian History”, three reports were presented: “Mission of Russian Orthodox, Islam Revival and Tatar Merchants” by Mami Hamamoto (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science); “Eastern Mission Today: Non-Russian People in the Middle Privol- ga Region” by Akira Sakurama (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science); “Heresy Sentence” or “Incorporation”?: Discourse around Armenian Church in Nineteenth Century Russia” by Karen Hamada(The University of Tokyo). At the other Common Session entitled “Distribution and Empire” , three reports were presented: “Russian Blacksee Trade the in 19th Century and her Go-South Policy” by Genyu Takeda (Tottori University); “Sergei Witte and World Market” by Yukimura Sakon (Niigata University); “Moscow Merchants and Kiakhta Cri- sis: Russo-Qing Trade in Asia in Nineteenth Century through Official Papers” by Takako Morinaga (Ritsumeikan University). * The Japanese Society for Slavic and East European Studies (JSSEES) and the Japanese Association for Russian and East European Studies (JAREES) held their annual joint sessions on October 29 and 30 at Kyoto Woman’s University. At the

113 CHRONICLE session on October 30, the following reports were presented: “The Foreign Action of the Chinese Communist Party during the Crisis in Poland in 1956 and the Upheaval in Hungary” by To Sei Kin (Doctoral Course of Aoyama Gakuin Uni- versity); “Hungarian Diplomacy During the Transition Period (1988–1989) and the Movement of Humans” by Akira Ogino (Nagasaki Prefectural University); “Eastern Germans’ Political Diplomacy during the Prague Spring” by Satoshi Shimizu (Aoyama Gakuin University); “Freedom is always Freedom of the Per- son with an Objection (Rosa Luxemburg)” and “Those Who Are Late Will be Punished by Life” (Gorbachev?): In Connection with the Events of East Germany from 1988 to 1989” by Kunihiko Aoki (Tohoku University). On October 30, a symposium, titled “Politics of Memory and Siberian Detention Problem,” was held. In this symposium, the following basic reports were presented: “Politics of Memory and the Study of Detention” by Takeshi Tomita (Professor Emeritus of Seikei University); and reports by Kenji Usui (Former Chairperson of the Japan Ballet Association, a person who experienced detention) and Mutsumi Nagamine (Curator of the Maizuru Retreat Memorial Museum). * At the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center 2017 Summer International Sym- posium, titled “Northeast Asia’s Fault Line: One Hundred Years of Sino-Rus- sian-Soviet Competitive Corporation,” on July 13–14, 2017, at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, the following reports were presented in the second session (Regional Powers and Northeast Asian Relations in Historical and Theoretical Perspectives): “Regional Configurations and Global Problems: India, Northeast Asia, and the Cold War” by Andreas Hilger (German Historical Institute, Moscow); “Alliance Politics in East Asia during the 1950s: A Perspective from the Dynamic Theory of Alliances” by Yasuhiro Izumikawa (Chuo University); and “Great Octobers: Russia’s Revolutions, the Russo-Chinese Borderlands, and the Rise of China” by David Wolff (SRC). * A symposium of the Association for East European Studies (Tououshi Ken­ kyukai) was held at Meiji Gakuin University on April 22, 2017. The title of the symposium was “Confessionalization and Secularization, Questions from East- ern Europe.” In this symposium, the following papers were presented: “A Mul- ti-Religious Commonwealth, The Religious Coexistence System of the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian State and its Transformation” by Satoshi Koyama; “About Changes in Religions and Churches in 19th Century Hungary” by Akiko Watanabe; and “Resistance and Adaptation to the Reign of the Hapsburg Empire, Muslims in Hapsburg and Bosnia” by Daisuke Yonaoka.

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In the free split sessions, the following reports were presented: “Playwriting and its Theory of Balázs Béla in the 1910s” by Yoshiko Okamoto; “Students of the Slavic Gymnasium in Brno at the Time of their Formation” by Toshiaki Kyogoku; “Purisms in Bohemia, Architectural Heritage, and Historical Consciousness” by Taku Shinohara; “Jewish Nation or German Jew? The Formation of the An- tipathy between East and West in Youth Zionist Organization in the Interwar Period” by Atsuto Anzai; “The Copperplate Prints of Hieronimus Reschenkohl, The Iconography Media, and Cultural Consumption in 18th- and 19th-century Vienna” by Kyoko Yamanouchi; and “The Political Concept of Young Intellectuals in Romania in the Interwar Periods” by Takashi Otani.

Books * Akao, Mitsuharu, and Naomi Mukai, eds. Jews and Autonomy: The Rise and Fall of the Diaspora Community in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. Iwanami-Shoten, 2017. * Dohi, Tsuneyuki. The World History of the Rise and Fall. Mother Earth of the Romanoff Dynasty. Kodansha, 2016. (in Japanese) * Hayasaka, Makoto. Rithania: Between the Historical Tradition and the For­ mation of the Nation. Sairyusha, 2017. (in Japanese) * Hirose, Takashi. An Introduction to the Russian Revolution. Shueisha, 2017. (in Japanese) * Inoue, Toshio, ed. The Looks of the Governments and Nations in the History of Eastern Europe. Koyo Shobo, 2017. (in Japanese) * Ikeda, Yoshiro. The Russian Revolution. Eight Months of the Collapse.Iwanami Shoten, 2017. (in Japanese) * Ikeda, Yoshiro, ed. From the World War to the Revolution. The Russian Revo­ lution and the Century of the Soviet Union. Book 1, Iwanami Shoten, 2017. (in Japanese) * Inouchi, Toshio, ed. The Situations of the States and Nations: The Cases of the History of Russia and Eastern Europe. Koyoshobo, 2017. * Kaji, Sayaka. The Polish National Anthem and Modern History. Gunzosha, 2017. (in Japanese) * Matsudo, Kiyohiro, ed. The Cold War and Peaceful Coexistence. The Russian Revolution and the Century of the Soviet Union. Book 3, Iwanami Shoten, 2017. (in Japanese)

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* Matsui, Yasuhiro, ed. The Civilization Called Stalinism. The Russian Revolution and the Century of the Soviet Union. Book 2, Iwanami Shoten, 2017. (in Japanese) * Morgun, Zoya (Fujimoto, Wakio (translator)). Vladivostok. The History of its Japanese Residents. 1860–1937. Tokyodo Shuppan, 2016. (in Japanese) * Shimotomai, Nobuo, ed. The 50 Chapters to Knowing Russian History. Akashi Shoten, 2016. (in Japanese) * Shimotomai, Nobuo. The History of the Soviet Union. 1917–1991. Kodansha, 2017. (in Japanese) * Watanabe, Katsuyoshi. A History of Poland. Chuokoron-Sha, 2017. * Yasui, Michihiro. The Riga Treaty: Intermingled Polish National Border. Gun- zosha, 2017. * Wakio Fujimoto, Hiroshi Matsubara, Hideaki Sakamoto, Taichi Shiraki

Geography

Research presentations At the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, held on March 28–30, 2017, at Tsukuba University in Tsukuba City, the following papers were read: “Struggle for Economic Independence in Rural Areas: Crisis and Prospects in the Romanian Carpathians” by Yukari Nakadai (Rikkyo University); “Green Entrepreneurship: Innovation for Ecotourism in Rural Transylvania, Romania” by Lidia Sasaki (Tokyo Metropolitan University and Agricultural Policy Committee, Inc.) and Yasuko Takatori (Agricultural Policy Committee, Inc.); and “Gentrification in Post-Socialist Budapest” by Yoshihiro Fujitsuka (Osaka City University). In the poster session, the following poster was presented: “Local Knowledge and Conceptualization of Permafrost Degradation under Global Warming in Eastern Siberia” by Yuichiro Fujioka (Tohoku University), Hiroki Takakura (Tohoku University), Masanori Goto (Hokkaido University), Atsushi Nakada (Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples), Sardana Boyakova (IHRISN, SBRAS), Vanda Ignatyeva (IHRISN, SBRAS), and Stepan Grigorev (IHRISN, SBRAS).

Books Kagami, Masahiro, ed. Russia (Series of World Regional Geography 9). Tokyo: Asakura-Shoten, September 2017. (Toshio Omata)

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