Greetings to you all - to the Japanese version -
We just decided to open this site so that we can begin talking about the history of East Asia in relation to what we like to do in the Russian Far East and China starting sometime during this year.
It seems as if we are now at the threshold of an entirely new era of the 21st century, where the mankind must re-think and re-invent the human civilization as we have known it in the past.
The 21st century will mark the beginning of a new era of scientific discoveries and applied technologies, signaling the coming of a major breakthrough in a number of fields including the major branches of social science.
We will try to upload the English versions within the next few weeks of the papers and asrticles below which are still presented in Japanese.
Yutaka Okamoto
May 5, 2009
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Listed Papers and Reviews
First
Paper
By
Yutaka Okamoto on
"Let us review the history of East Asia
uder a different light" Written
on July 2006, and published here on May 6, 2009
The PARAP group is a unique
organization which does not exist in the conventional organizational
sense, but nevertheless remains in existence, perhaps as the harbinger
of the 21st-century concept of an open and collaborative human endeavor.
I am going to review some of my memos and unpublished writings of the
past several years, especially on the
history of Japan as an integral part of East Asia.
I would like to propose to re-invent our own Japanese history so that
we can continue to exist as a integral and contributing member nation
of East Asia.
Second
Paper
By Yutaka Okamoto "The
Hidden Pages of the Japanese History: The impact of the northern
tribal cultures on the rise of the Samurai class": Written on August, 2006,
and
published here on May10, 2009
I picked up this piece
from the old files of the early 2000s when I became once again deeply
involved in the
explorations and fielde studies of Japan's remote histoical roots on
the northeastern region of the Eurasian Continent.
It seems almost an impossible task to write East Asia's regional
history as long as we continue, as we are
still doing today, to simply bring together the muteually conflicting
'national' histories of China, Korea and Japan.
We must move beyond the limitations of the idea of 'national' history
to discuss our East Asia's history as an integrated whole.