political, economical, military, agricultural and cultural aspects as well as the mass mobilization which includes the question of so-called comfort women. The research attitude will be demonstrative, based on looking into primary sources and conducting interviews with the persons concerned. Although the project attaches greater importance to the side of Burma, the investigations of Japan's political intentions and occupation policies will also be done carefully. The project will try its best to get funds from a domestic foundation and will carry out field works in Burma and UK. These field works include not only interviews but researches at several archives concerned in both countries. Some small-scale academic meetings and conferences are to be held each year, and a large-scale symposium will be held at the end of the third year of the project. The project is finally planning to publish a detailed list of documents related to the occupation period, together with the record of interviews. Some research articles will also be published later.Reinvestigation of Rhetoric via Informatics(Coordinator: ODA Jun'ichi) In the field of classical rhetoric, elocutio is the only branch that survived upto the nineteenth century A. D. Through the restoration movement of rhetoric which dawned in the late twentieth century, elocutio came to be regarded as code-conversion technique in terms of the syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations between elemental units of text, i.e., operations which act directly on substantial units. General rhetoric can be understood as the study of formal structure, based on a unified theory of "art as form," describing its aesthetic value of art by means of a function of structure. By reinvestigating the general rhetoric via informatics, this project aims at elucidating the repertories of rhetorical techniques that are omnipresent through various forms (linguistic, musical, visual, and somatic, etc.) of expressions.Comparative Study of 20th Century's 'Individualization' in Trans-Atlantic African Societies (Coordinator : MAJIMA Ichiro) What do we see now under the various currents of thoughts emerging in the human and social sciences during the changing period of this century? It is no doubt some intellectual trial to reconsider fundamentally the concept of the "Subject" or "Historical Subject" designated differently at the three levels: "State", "Nation (Ethnic Group)" and "Individual", each of which had been constructed on the basis of the "communaute civile" principle derived from the modern European nation-states. Among these three, the concept of "Individual" is situated and remodeled itself, such as the "changing and plural identities", at the center of the numerous studies in the non-european world about one's memory, vocality, body, gender, creolity, diaspora, subalternity, minority, citizenship, etc.. The relatively high valuation on the dynamic subjectivity of the "Individual" contrasts sharply from the recent suspicions about the essentialistic or substantial concept of "State" and "Nation (Ethnic Group)". This joint research project aims especially at the reconsideration of this first concept of "Subject", namely "Individual", analyzing the really concrete lives of particular individuals who have lived the 20th century in one of the Afro / African communities of North and South Americas, the Caribbean and African continent. This project is mainly composed of cultural and social anthroplogists, sociologists, historians and political scientists on this trans-atlantic historico-cultural "Black" region.10
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