Journal of the Anthropological Society of Nippon
Online ISSN : 1884-765X
Print ISSN : 0003-5505
ISSN-L : 0003-5505
Volume 67, Issue 5
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  • MITSUO IWAMOTO
    1960 Volume 67 Issue 5 Pages 241-251
    Published: March 30, 1960
    Released on J-STAGE: February 26, 2008
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    Tobishima and Aoshima are small islands in the Japan Sea, about thirty kilometers off the west coast of the Tohoku district of Japan.
    General remarks on their measurements and indices (Table 1-4) are as follows; on the means, there are no marked differences between both islanders, and on the variation coefficients, the fluctuations during growth and aging are not so noticeable as that in measures like stature.
    Then, to remove the influences due to sex and age from the correlation coefficients, individual measurements were converted into standardized values (Table 5) taking percentages for each mean.
    The average of correlation coefficients (Table 6) calculated on the standardized values, are about 0.25 between Ego and palent, 0.40 between Ego and brother or sister, 0.05 between Ego and grandparent, 0.10 between Ego and uncle or aunt, and 0.05 between Ego and cousin.
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  • MASABUMI KIMURA
    1960 Volume 67 Issue 5 Pages 252-262
    Published: March 30, 1960
    Released on J-STAGE: February 26, 2008
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    F. WAGENSEIL visited Japan in 1957 for the purpose of resurveying the characteristics of the mixedblood people on the Bonin Islands. The author worked as an assistant for him, and obtained the materials on marriage and childbearing of their descendants. As the introductory notes for the wagenseil's paper, some of the analysis done by the author are shown here.
    From 1830 to the present time, selection of mates numbered 202, 95 times for males, 107 times for females. About one thirds were the marriage with blood relation, or the descendants of the Bonin Islands' f reign stocks without blood relation. Among the intermarriages, the complicated cases in which the bride and briagroom had the same three family trees are found. (Fig. 1 & 2)
    In 1950, some of the famillies still had dominant European blood with a large number of descendants. The fact that many Japanese immigrants moved in the Islands, influenced the living modes of the Freign stocks, but the segregation of the Japanese was too strong for them to be assimilated into the inhabitants.
    The average number of children they had were small compared with those of the Japanese. It may be assumed that the stillborn children or the early infant deaths were lost from their memories. But no real causes have yet been known.
    The number of people of the mixed-blood, and their average blood distribution schemes, by calender year, are shown in Table 10 & 11.
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  • KUNIHIKO KIMURA, KALUKO KIMURA
    1960 Volume 67 Issue 5 Pages 263-268
    Published: March 30, 1960
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    To-shima island is a small island (417km2) situated in the Pacific Ocean about 140km south-west of Tokyo. The population is composed of about 80 families and 360 peoples. This anthropological survey was carried out on the island in Summer 1957. The authors examined the anthropometrical measurements, the physical capacity (grip strength, tapping, match board test and reaction time), the finger and palmar prints, etc. of 83 adults and 156 school children. In this islanders, no peculier featuers are found in all of the traits examined, except in finger and palmar print patterns.
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  • TAMOTSU OGATA
    1960 Volume 67 Issue 5 Pages 269-277
    Published: March 30, 1960
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  • SHIGERU MORITA, TOSHIYUKI KAWAGOWE
    1960 Volume 67 Issue 5 Pages 278-295
    Published: March 30, 1960
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    We have acquired 68 osteometrical measurements and 49 indices on 165 skulls which were excavated at Yushima-Muenzaka, Tokyo.
    We presume that these skulls were burned about 171-272 years ago, and among them 102 skulls were that of males and 63 of females. In order to find the characteristics of these skulls, the measurements were compared with those of the recent Japanese, the medieval Japanese, excavated at Kamakura, the protohistoric Japanese, Hokkaido and Saghalin Ainos, the Koreans, the Chinese from northern and southern part of China, the Mongolians, and the Siamese.
    The results are summerized as follows;
    1. Maximum cranial length of the male skull is longer than that of the recent Japanese and nearly the same as that of the medieval Japanese at Kamakura. The female skull has almost the same length with that of the recent Japanese.
    2. Maximum cranial breadth is about the same as that of the recent Japanese in Kanto-district and wider than that of the medieval Japanese at Kamakura.
    3. Both the male and female skulls are mesocephalic and the male skull is more dolichocephalic than that of the female.
    4. Concerning the basio-bregmatic height, there is no noticeable difference between the Muenzaka skulls and the recent and medieval Japanese.
    5. The occipital bone of the male skull is extruded remarkably backward, and the "Occipitaler Knickungswinkel" is small.
    6. The endocranical capacity is a little smaller than that of the recent Japanese and about the same as that of the medieval Japanese at Kamakura.
    7. The breadth of the face is somewhat broader than that of the recent Japanese.
    8. The orbita is broader and orbital index is larger than that of the recent Japanese.
    9. If we consider all the measurements synthetically, we can conclude that the
    skulls excavated at Yushima-Muenzaka are similar to those of the recent Japanese in Kanto-district.
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