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Time future contained in time past. Archival science in the 21st century, in: Journal of the Japan Society for Archival Science 1 (2004) 20-35 [Japanese translation ibidem, 4-19].Time future contained in time past Archival science in the 21st century Eric KETELAAR　Professor of Archivistics University of Amsterdam, and Monash University, Melbourne Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind. ............. Time past and time future Allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden, The moment in the arbour where the rain beat, The moment in the draughty church at smokefall Be remembered; involved with past and future. Only through time time is conquered. From Burnt Norton (1936) by Thomas Stearns ELIOT (1888-1965) I can speak Dutch! These were the first words spoken on 8 July 1853 at the encounter of the Japanese and commodore Perry, an American. I can speak Dutch! yelled a Dutch interpreter from the Japanese government, Hori Tatsunosuke, from a small boat to the deck of Perrys flagship, the Susquehanna. On hearing this, Perry sought the help of his own Dutch interpreter Portman. Thus the first talks between the U.S. and Japan were carried out in Dutch. The following year, in 1854, treaty negotiations between Hayashi Daigaku-no-kami and Commodore Perry were carried from Japanese to Dutch, then from Dutch to English, and vice versa. During the seclusion policy period of Sakoku, only Dutch and Chinese people were allowed into Jap