Takako AKIZUKI, the former SRC head librarian, retired in March 1996.
She has made a great contribution to the development of the SRC, since
she began her career as a librarian of the SRC in 1961. Now the SRC
Library has the largest and the most comprehensive collection on the
Slavic field in Japan (as of 1995 it holds 77,000 books, 27,000
microfilms, and about 700 titles of periodicals) thanks to her efforts.
Gathering the collections of George Alexander Lensen, Leon
Bernstein,George Vernadsky, Boris Souvarine, F.T. Epstein and so on,
she has published a series of guides to these collections and
bibliographic lists.
On March 15, when a special farewell meeting was held, she greatly
impressed the people who gathered at the SRC for the meeting by her
farewell lecture.
Since retirement she sometimes appears at the SRC and gives helpful
advice to the library staff.
A new member, Tomohiko UYAMA, has joined the research staff of the
SRC as an associate professor in April 1996.
Born in 1967, he was graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1991. He
also studied at Moscow State University from 1989 to 1990. After
receiving his M.A. in the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo
(Area Studies) in 1993, he worked at the Embassy of Japan in Kazakhstan
from 1994 to 1995. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of
Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan from 1995
to 1996.
Though young , he is looked upon as one of the leading specialists in
the field of Central Asian studies. He has published works on history
and politics of Kazakhstan, Kazakh language and literature, interethnic
and
intercivilizational relations in Central Asia, and other topics.
Currently
he is researching the problems of the Kazakh intelligentsia in the
period
of the Russian Revolutions (1905-1920).
Our current research staff (permanent members) is as follows:
Teruyuki HARA: Professor of Russian and Soviet History Tadayuki
HAYASHI : Professor of International Relations, East European
Politics, Political History of Czechoslovakia (Director of the Center) Osamu
IEDA : Professor of Economic History of Eastern Europe, Modern
History of
Hungary Koichi INOUE: Professor of Ethnology, North-Eurasian
Studies Kimitaka MATSUZATO : Associate Professor of Russian
and Soviet
History, Russian Politics Shugo MINAGAWA: Professor of
Comparative
politics, Russian Regional Politics Tetsuo MOCHIZUKI: Professor
of Russian Literature Takashi MURAKAMI : Professor of Economics
(Russian
energy economics, the economy of the Russian Far East, Japanese-Russian
Economic Relations) Shinichiro TABATA
: Associate Professor of Russian Economics and Statistics Tomohiko
UYAMA : Associate Professor of History and Politics of Central Asia
Rihito YAMAMURA : Professor of Comparative Economics, Russian
Industry and Agriculture
Library and Information Services: Yuzuru TONAI: SRC head librarian Jun MATSUDA:
bibliographical services Mika OSUGA: publications
Currently, the SRC has three young scholars as "COE Researchers."
COE researchers for 1996-97 are as follows: Junji YATABE: Czech and Slovak History and Politics Tomoko
FUJITA : Russian Literature Kiyohiro MATSUDO: Soviet
History
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