Opening: Zendo Uwano (President, Linguistic Society of Japan)
Greeting from the Host: Akiko Fuse (President, Sapporo Gakuin University)
An Outline of the Circum-Pacific Linguistic Area: Testifying from Personal Pronouns Katsumi Matsumoto（Professor Emeritus, Kanazawa University）
Public Symposium: The Fall of the Soviet Union and Its Consequences to Japanese Field Linguistics -20 Years of Fieldwork in Northeast Asia- Chair: Hidetoshi Shiraishi (Sapporo Gakuin University)
Paleoasiatic Languages (with special emphasis on Itelmen) Presenter: Chikako Ono （Chiba University）
Tungusic Languages Presenter: Shinjiro Kazama （Tokyo University of Foreign Studies）
Mongolic Languages Presenter: Yasuhiro Yamakoshi (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science）
Turkic Languages Presenter: Setsu Fujishiro （Kobe City College of Nursing）