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Shchepkin V. V. Creating a minority: the views of Japanese intellectuals and Japan’s policy towards Ainu in the 18th and 19th centuries // Russian Japanology Review, 2019. Vol. 2 (No. 1). P. 128–140.

Shchepkin, Vasily Vladimirovich

The article traces how the image of the Ainu formed by Japaneseintellectuals in 18thand early 19thcenturies influenced the formation of Japan’spolicy towards this ethnic minority in the Meiji period (1868-1912).

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Keywords

Ainu
colonization
ethnic minorities
history of Japan
Meiji period
nation state

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The next Far Eastern Studies Seminar LXI of the Department of Far Eastern Studies (IOM RAS) will be held on February 5, 2024, at 15:00. Vasily V. Shchepkin, Senior Researcher at the IOM RAS, will give a talk titled “Sendai and Russia: invisible ties (based on a recent research visit to the University of Tohoku, Japan).”
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