Timur Dadabaev is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and Director of the combined MA and Ph.D. Program in Central Eurasian Studies. Hisao Komatsu is Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.

• 1. Collective Memory, Oral History, and Central Eurasian Studies in Japan.- 2. Recollecting the Soviet Past: Challenges of Data Collection on Everyday Life Experiences and Public Memory in Post-Soviet Central Asia.- 3. Famine in Kyrgyzstan in the 1930s and 1940s.- 4. Soviet Agricultural Policy and Cultivating “Virgin Lands” in Kazakhstan.- 5. Religious Life of Kyrgyz People According to Oral Materials.- 6. Stalin’s Passing Recollected.-7. Evaluations of Perestroika in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Public Views in Contemporary Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.

Timur Dadabaev is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and Director of the combined MA and Ph.D. Program in Central Eurasian Studies. Hisao Komatsu is Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.

• 1. Collective Memory, Oral History, and Central Eurasian Studies in Japan.- 2. Recollecting the Soviet Past: Challenges of Data Collection on Everyday Life Experiences and Public Memory in Post-Soviet Central Asia.- 3. Famine in Kyrgyzstan in the 1930s and 1940s.- 4. Soviet Agricultural Policy and Cultivating “Virgin Lands” in Kazakhstan.- 5. Religious Life of Kyrgyz People According to Oral Materials.- 6. Stalin’s Passing Recollected.-7. Evaluations of Perestroika in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Public Views in Contemporary Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.