The Ainu People:
Indigeneity, Culture and Politics
Noboru Tomonari
Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
Course Reader no. 15
2016

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The Ainu People:
Indigeneity, Culture, and Politics
Introduction

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Part I- The Ainu People: A Minority in Japan

Joshua Roth11

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.

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Hiroshi Tanaka, Makoto Oda, Kyongman Pak, William Wetherall and Katsuichi
Honda, “The Diene Report on Discrimination and Racism in Japan,” The Asia-PacificJournal, Volume 4, Issue 4, Number 0, March 29 2006.
Part II- The Ainu People: From the 19th Century to 1945
Brett L. Walker

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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

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Vivan Blaxell, “Designs of Power: The ‘Japanization’ of Urban and Rural Space inColonial Hokkaido,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 9.35.2 August 31, 2009
Yoichi Komori

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Yoichi Komori, “Rule in the Name of Protection: The Japanese State, the Ainu and theVocabulary of Colonialism,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 11.8.2, February 25, 2013

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Yukie Chiri and Kyoko Selden

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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

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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

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Katsuya Hirano and Gavin Walker, “The Politics of Colonial Translation: On theNarrative 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

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Chisato (Kitty) Dubreuil, “The Ainu and Their Culture: A Critical Twenty-FirstCentury Assessment,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 5.11.0, November 26, 2007
ann-elise lewallen203

ann-elise lewallen, “Indigenous at Last! Ainu Grassroots Organizing and theIndigenous Peoples Summit in Ainu Mosir,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, 6.11.0,
November 1, 2008
Lukasz Zablonski and Philip Seaton

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Lukasz Zablonski and Philip Seaton, “The Hokkaido Summit as a Springboard forGrassroots Initiatives: The ‘Peace, Reconciliation & Civil Society’ Symposium,” The
Asia-Pacific Journal, 6.11.0, November 1, 2008

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Mark Winchester

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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, 2009Mark Winchester, “Everything You Know about Ainu Is Wrong: KobayashiYoshinori’s Excursion into Ainu Historiography,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, 9.22.1,
May 24, 2011
Simon Cotterill

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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 Reading339