In 1998 and 1999 there were so many big turning point for the research of guide, in German Literature, like the special title in. Zeitschrift fur Germanistik" (Nr 1, 1999) or the Asian Germanist Congress in Fukuoka, in August 1999. Prof.Ingc Stephan was invited to the gender section of this congress there of the research project members have participated the section. In Kyoto an international symposium has been held in February 1999 and 2000, and they gave also very good * to exchange information and to discuss.
Within the project we has a meeting in July 1998. March 1999 and December 1999 and invited guests (Prof. Jaquline Bernd and Dr.Marlene Streeruwitz) to special lectures.

Researches in "History of the Manns and narrative art" in the last 3 years make the manifold of the familys activities clear. We found that complex of everydays affairs, politics, social problem and artistic movement gave shape to their writing work and acts, so this theme must be continually investigated from various viewpoints.We cite several instances.1) Thomas Mann loved his third daughter Elisabeth above all. And this emotional tendency has great influences on his works and daily life.2) Erika Mann, first daughter of Thomas Mann, made every effort to persuade american people of Nati's evildoing. But her appeal was not correct report but s sort of propaganda, so long as it had a clear aim that USA should be led to the Anti-fascism. This fact shows us that her existence was indeed original, but superficial as compared with her father.3) Thomas Mann continued writing his diary. His political thought didn't always adapt itself to the new conditions. His children saw the situation rather correctly. But by writing diary Thomas Mann keeped a daily life which was more profound and suggestive than political acts.4) Heinrich Mann, elder brother of Thomas Mann, wrote a novel which showed a tendency of impressionism, when he was young. Pictures of impressionism were accepted by the citizen in those days, and European rich families bought such works, which had then influences on young writers. So in the family we find a base of creating life, that is to say, enjoyment of arts

This Project, based on the thesis that cultural differences are neither substantial nor static, but perceptible only within the horizon of imagery, figured out three perceptional dimensions of cultural differences as follows :
(1) intended encounter with another culture (during the Enlightenment, european travellers in East- Asia at the end of 19^<th> century).
(2) inevitable encounter with another cultuere (like exiled persons in the Nazi-Period, people in East-Asia under the Japanese occupation).
(3) perception of cul ural differences within a certain culture (according to class, region, and gender).
In each of those three demensions, we could find out features of gender-images infront of which a cultural discourse takes place.
(1)In the case of intended encounters, the cultural 'othemess' is often expressed with 'feminin' figure.
(2)In the case of inevitable encounters, the occupant tends to treat the native people in the occupied territory as female person.
(3)Within a certain culture, features of culturaldifferences are valiable according to cultural hegemony at the time.
As results of our reseach, we could say that cultural differences which are expressed with gender images do not bound up with national territory, but are only percepted through political hegemony.

ナチ・ドイツ亡命知識人のアイデンティティの変化の観察サンプルとして、エーリカ・マンが1938年英語で発表した最初の著書"School for Barbarians"の全テキストをスキャナーのOCRで取り込み、テキスト中で一人称複数の代名詞が示す対象を分析。この著書では、著者を含めた総称の一人称複数の代名詞は「ドイツ人」とりわけ「亡命ドイツ人」を示すために用いられる例が多いことが分かった。今後、これ以降のテキストにおいて 一人称複数の代名詞が示す対象を分析し、そこに変化が見られるかを確認する必要がある。