The 11th Congress of the Sea of Japan Cetology Research Group At the Hakusan Hall in Niigata City, Japan May 27-28, 2000 § May 27 SPECIAL LECTURE Indigenous whaling and the life style at Lamalera in Indonesia. Tomoko Egami (Okinawa International University) and Koutaro Kojima (Writer) ORAL PRESENTATION O1 Images of killer whales in Northwest Coast Indian people:Two types of killer whales in British Colombia, Washington and Southeastern Alaska. Keiko Takahashi (Japanese Society of Ethnology) O2 Resemblance of the trend between cetacean stranding and heavy oil washing ashore (HAXODKA oil spill accident) on the coast of Niigata District, including Sado Island, in the Sea of Japan. ○Yukihiro Nakamura (Johetsu City Aquar.), Yoshiharu Honma (Niigata Univ. Sch. Med.), Akira Aoyagi (Teradomari Town Aquar.), and Kazuhiro Minowa (Kashiwazaki City Mus.) O3 Further report on gonadal histology of the marine mammals stranded on the coast of Toyama (Etchu) and Niigata (Echigo) Prefectures, Sea of Japan-I. ○Yoshiharu Honma, Tatsuo Ushiki, Masaei Takeda (3rd Dept.Anat.,Niigata Univ.Sch.Med.), and Junji Shindo (Niigata City Aquar.) O4 Environment of Yamagata area and fossil cetaceans. Kazuo Nagasawa (Takahata High School) O5 Problems in comparative morphology of mysticete skulls. Masayuki Oishi (Iwate Prefectural Museum) O6 Classification and geological age of a fossil baleen whale from Teshio-cho, Hokkaido. ○Eriko Sato (Niigata City), Masaichi Kimura (Sapporo Campus, Hokkaido University of Education), and Akihiko Suzuki (Earth Science, Iwamizawa College, Hokkaido University of Education) *************************************************** Tetsuo HIRAGUCHI Associate professor History and Anthropology, Humanities Kanazawa Medical University E-mail: [log in to unmask] KMU History and Anthropology Home Page URL http://www.kanazawa-med.ac.jp/~hum-sci/hi-an.htm Fax/Tel:+81(0)76-286-6414(Direct) Tel:+81(0)76-286-2211 Ext.7104 Uchinada-machi, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan *************************************************** %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%