In this research project we attempted to study various aspects of "memory" and its representation (documents, monument, commemoration etc.) in the context of global history. This project is an interdisciplinary collaboration. Members of the project consist not only of historians (specialists of European and Japanese history), but also of specialists of art history, modern literature, social linguistics and modern social thought Each member made an intensive investigation into the problem of "memory and its representation" in his/her own research field. Every year we held meetings and workshops for reading research papers, where we invited specialists of related field from other research institutions in Japan and abroad.
Part of our research results had already been published in books and articles written by the members of our projects (see "11. References" in this abstracts). The contents of final report of the project is as follows : Preface (Satoshi Koyama)/"Memory" of the confrontation in the arts of Jodo sect in the end of the Kamakura period (Yoshitoyo Ohara)/The Meiji Restoration and the renaissance of ancient culture (Hiroshi Takagi)/Memory of Disraeli and Primrose (Takashi Koseki)/Impulse tracing in modern period : an form of "memory" and "documents" (Atsuo Morimoto)/Memory of bandits and memory of chivalrous robber (Junji Ito)/Memory and records in the modern Japanese linguistics (Toshiaki Yasuda) "Japan" from France (Erika Takashina)/Sense of distance in Hideo Haga : life and method of a folklorist photographer (Akira Kikuchi)/The hair of the deceased Nelson (Kumie Inose)/Beyond the image of memory : past, present and future of Mauthausen (Hiroko Mizuno)/"Concentration camp" in France in the end of the Second World War and the "re-memorizing" of the persecution of Jews (Katsuo Kato)/The fate of symbols of "enemy" (Shizue Osa)/Photographs and representation of "the Emperor of Japan as a human" (Megumi Kitahara)/From a "world apart" : on the memoir of the Gulag camps in the Soviet Union by Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski (Satoshi Koyama).
