Japan: Ainu Identity And Japan's Identity: The Struggle For Subjectivity

Japan: Ainu Identity And Japan's Identity: The Struggle For Subjectivity Alexander Bukh, 2010   This paper seeks to contribute to the academic debate on the contemporary identity of the Ainu. Ainu, the indigenous people of what today constitutes part of northern Japan, as well as the Russian Kurile Islands and parts of the island of Sakhalin, became the first subjects of modernizing Japan's expansion in the second half of the nineteenth century. In general, the Ainu's history, culture, and...

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