The Ainu People: Indigeneity, Culture and Politics
Noboru Tomonari
Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Course Reader no. 15 2016
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Introduction 6
Part I- The Ainu People: A Minority in Japan
Joshua Roth 11
Joshua Roth, ““Political and Cultural Perspectives on Japan’s Insider Minorities,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Volume 3, Issue 4, Number 0, April 27, 2005
Hiroshi Tanaka et al. 33
Hiroshi Tanaka, Makoto Oda, Kyongman Pak, William Wetherall and Katsuichi Honda, “The Diene Report on Discrimination and Racism in Japan,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Volume 4, Issue 4, Number 0, March 29 2006.
Part II- The Ainu People: From the 19th Century to 1945
Brett L. Walker 44
Brett L. Walker, “Mamiya Rinzo and the Japanese Exploration of Sakhalin Island: Cartography and Empire,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Volume 5, Issue 2, Number 0, February 2008
Vivian Blaxell 48
Vivan Blaxell, “Designs of Power: The ‘Japanization’ of Urban and Rural Space in Colonial Hokkaido,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 9.35.2 August 31, 2009
Yoichi Komori 69
Yoichi Komori, “Rule in the Name of Protection: The Japanese State, the Ainu and the Vocabulary of Colonialism,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 11.8.2, February 25, 2013
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Yukie Chiri and Kyoko Selden 86
Yukie Chiri and Kyoko Selden, “The Song the Owl God Himself Sang: An Ainu Tale,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 4.5.9, January 24, 2009
Kayano Shigeru and Kyoko Selden 101
Kayanao Shigeru and Kyoko Selden, “The Goddess of the Wind and Okikurmi,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 9.43.2, October 26, 2011
Katsuya Hirano and Gavin Walker 109
Katsuya Hirano and Gavin Walker, “The Politics of Colonial Translation: On the Narrative of the Ainu as a ‘Vanishing Ethnicity,’” The Asia-Pacific Journal 7.4.3, January 12, 2009.
Part III- The Ainu People: From 1945 to the 21st Century
Chisato (Kitty) Dubreuil 132
Chisato (Kitty) Dubreuil, “The Ainu and Their Culture: A Critical Twenty-First Century Assessment,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 5.11.0, November 26, 2007
ann-elise lewallen 203
ann-elise lewallen, “Indigenous at Last! Ainu Grassroots Organizing and the Indigenous Peoples Summit in Ainu Mosir,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, 6.11.0, November 1, 2008
Lukasz Zablonski and Philip Seaton 229
Lukasz Zablonski and Philip Seaton, “The Hokkaido Summit as a Springboard for Grassroots Initiatives: The ‘Peace, Reconciliation & Civil Society’ Symposium,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, 6.11.0, November 1, 2008
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Mark Winchester 249
Mark Wincester, “On the Dawn of a New National Ainu Policy: ‘The Ainu as a Situation’ Today,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, 7.41.3, October 12, 2009
Mark Winchester, “Everything You Know about Ainu Is Wrong: Kobayashi Yoshinori’s Excursion into Ainu Historiography,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, 9.22.1, May 24, 2011
Simon Cotterill 294
Simon Cotterill, “Ainu Success: The Political and Cultural Achievements of Japan’s Indigenous Minority,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, 9.12.2, March 21, 2011
Simon Cotterill, “Documenting Urban Indigeneity: TOKYO Ainu and the 2011 Survey on the Living Conditions of Ainy outside Hokkaido,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, 9.45.2, November 16, 2011
Recommended Books for Further Reading 339