This is a report about the collection which Mr. Hiroshi TERADA had purchased and has been stored in the Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples. This collection is composed of Ainu artifacts and books related to northern indigenous peoples. Mr. TERADA was born in 1933 in Niigata prefecture, and graduated from the department of veterinary, Hokkaido University in 1957. He worked at the Nichiro Fur Co., ltd. a mink farm in Abashiri as an executive from 1960 to 1993. He had been interested in Ainu Culture and collected a lot of artifacts and books from antique or souvenir shops and used-book stores. He passed away in 2003. Most of his collection was sold and donated to the Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples.

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現在の医学では、いまだアルツハイマー病などの変性型認知症の治癒はできない。そのため、さまざまな予防説や脳トレ説などが蔓延している。本稿ではまずそれらの説のほとんどがエビデンスに乏しいことを検証した。次に既存の各種療法やリハビリテーションのエビデンスも調べた。一方、認知症の本質は、昼食の内容や自宅の位置が思い出せないなど、情報の保存や回収が困難な情報障害と考えられる。視力低下者には眼鏡、歩行困難者には杖や車椅子が提供される。同様に、認知症者にも情報提供を主とした代償支援手段(Assistive Technology)による生活支援が実施されるべきである。生活全般の支援にはHigh Tech、Low Tech共に必要だが、海外ではAssistive Technologyの名のもと、High による認知症支援の動きが高まってきた。一方、Low Techメモリーエイドなどの開発や適応は、国内外でもほとんど報告されていない。筆者は過去25年にわたり、記憶障害や認知症への各種Low Techメモリーエイドの開発と、それらによる生活支援を試みてきた。本稿ではそれらを紹介するとともに、工学系の大学と共同研究をしているHigh Tech支援にも一部言及する。認知症の進行に応じて適応するエイド、機器、情報内容などを変更してゆき、生活支援、心理支援、介護者の負担軽減などを目指すことが、認知症のリハビリテーションである。残念ながら、現在このようなリハビリテーションは当院以外ほとんど行われていない。今後の普及を切望する。

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During the course of forming the Meiji state, there occurred several examples of senior government officials whose views on foreign affairs and understanding of international relations directly reflected the considerations of internal politics and diplomacy. This feature is, needless to say, deeply related to the question of Japanese nationalism. Such men were constantly preoccupied with the dilemma of how to protect Japan's political independence by matching the strength of the Western powers on the international stage of Eastern Asia. The objective of this paper, therefore, is to accurately reassess Japan's diplomatic stance in the early Meiji period by investigating the international outlooks of two representative diplomatic leaders and ministers of Foreign Affairs, Soejima Taneomi and Terashima Munenori. This is presented through a comparative analysis of their respective perceptions and interpretations of international law and diplomatic relations in addition to the policies they actually implemented while in office.
The Confucian ethics particular to a scholar of Chinese classics were central to Soejima's international perspective, generating his argument for discipline through moral influence and inspiring recourse to the diplomatic guidelines of the chronicles of Lu in his approach towards Russia and Asian states, especially Formosa and Korea. This should be recognized as a significant element in effecting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' departure from its hitherto essentially moderate diplomatic policy and the adoption instead of a hard line approach.
On the other hand, Terashima was a strong advocate of moderation and attached much importance to ideas of equality and negotiation between sovereign states. His subsequent appointment to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, therefore, should have presented an opportunity for revising Soejima's hard line diplomacy in favour of the more temperate model of the past. This was prohibited, however, by the lateral pressure that the powers of Europe and America were exerting in Asia.
In order to ride crises of internal disorder and foreign pressure, the leading voices in government ventured instead on a scheme of sustaining Soejima's uncompromising line while at the same time replacing his rationale with a Western-style logic of power politics. It is perhaps reasonable to accept the view that the double-edged character of Meiji diplomacy, with its aggressive stance in Asia and simultaneously subordinate attitude to the powers of Europe and America, first took shape when this strategy was actually in place and operating in Japanese foreign policy.

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