Ainu

There's no shortage of material...

• The Ainu of Japan (Andy Thomason)

• The Plurality of Japanese Culture (Ito Abito --see the larger document Aspects of Japanese Culture and Society An Anthropologist's View

• The Myth of Japanese Ethnic Homogeneity (Catherine Williams)

• "Japanese" and "Non-Japanese": The Exclusivity in Categorizing People as "Japanese" (Yasunori Fukuoka (Saitama University, Japan), 1998)

• The Ainu in Japan (Katsuaki Taira )

• THE POSITION OF THE AINU PEOPLE: A STATEMENT OF OPINION REGARDING THE PARTIAL REVISION OF I.L.O. CONVENTION NO. 107 ( By The Ainu Association of Hokkaido)

• Law to preserve Ainu culture passed in Japan and The present situation of the Ainu Language

• Foundation for Research and Promotion of Ainu Culture

• Oki (an Ainu musician)

• Toward a Genuine Redress for an Unjust Past: The Nibutani Dam Case (Toshiaki Sonohara)

• Ainu Information Link

• Ainu: the anatomy of an exhibit (Smithsonian --see also AnthNote)

• Articles about Ainu people from NATIVE-L

• The Ainu Museum

• Japan and Multiculturalism (Japan Times)

• Ainu: Japan's Vanishing Race By Lee Sellers

Record 1 of 16
CALL NO.     DS832 .H65513 2000.
AUTHOR       Honda, Katsuichi, 1933-
TITLE        Ainu minzoku. English.
TITLE        Harukor : an Ainu woman's tale / Honda Katsuichi ; translated by 
               Kyoko Selden ; with a foreword by David L. Howell.
IMPRINT      Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2000.
Record 2 of 16
CALL NO.     DS832 .K36913 1994.
AUTHOR       Kayano, Shigeru.
TITLE        Ainu no hi. English.
TITLE        Our land was a forest : an Ainu memoir / Kayano Shigeru ; with a 
               foreword by Mikiso Hane ; translated by Kyoko Selden and Lili 
               Selden.
IMPRINT      Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1944.
Record 3 of 16
CALL NO.     DS832 .A55 1999.
TITLE        Ainu : spirit of a northern people / edited by William W. 
               Fitzhugh and Chisato O. Dubreuil.
IMPRINT      [Washington, D.C.] : Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of 
               Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in association with 
               University of Washington Press, c1999.
Record 4 of 16
CALL NO.     DA47.9.J3 B73 1994.
TITLE        Britain & Japan : biographical portraits / edited by Ian Nish.
IMPRINT      Folkestone : Japan Library, c1994-
CONTENTS     v. 2. Sir Rutherford Alcock, 1809-1897 / Hugh Cortazzi -- Inoue 
               Masaru : "father" of the Japanese railways / Yumiyo Yamamoto --
               Laurence Oliphant and Japan, 1858-88 / Carmen Blacker -- Edmund
               Morel, a British engineer in Japan / Yoshihiko Morita -- 
               Alexander Allan Shand, 1844-1930 : a banker the Japanese could 
               trust / Olive Checkland and Norio Tamaki -- Royal visits to 
               Japan in the Meiji period, 1868-1912 / Hugh Cortazzi --
               Britain's Japan consular service, 1859-1941 / J.E. Hoare -- 
               John Harrington Gubbins, 1852-1929 / Ian Nish -- Hannah
               Riddell, 1855-1932 / Julia Boyd -- Lafcadio Hearn, 1850-1904 / 
               Paul Murray -- Mutsu family / Ian Mutsu -- J.W. Robertson-Scott
               and his Japanese friends / Mari Nakami -- Lionel Berners 
               Cholmondeley : a chaplain in Tokyo, 1887-1921 / Hamish Ion -- 
               Richard Ponsonby-Fane, 1878-1937 : a modern schoraly William 
               Adams / Dorothy Britton -- Crown prince Hirohito in Britain, 
               May 1921 / Ian Nish -- John Batchelor, missionary and friend of
               the Ainu, 1855-1945 / Sir Hugh Cortazzi -- Yoshida Shigeru and 
               Mme Yoshida at the London Embassy / Ian Nish -- Shigemitsu 
               Mamoru, 1887-1957 and Anglo-Japanese relations / Antony Best --
               Japanese businessmen in the UK / Sadao Oba -- Christmas 
               Humphreys, 1901-83 and Japan / Carmen Blacker -- Sir Vere 
               Redman, 1901-1975 / Sir Hugh Cortazzi -- Anglo-Japanese 
               commercial treaty of 1962 : a British perspective / Robin
               Gray -- Memories of the Anglo-Japanese commercial treaty : a 
               Japanese perspective / Sosuke Hanaoka -- Impact in Britain of 
               Japan's post-war novelists / Sydney Giffard.
Record 5 of 16
CALL NO.     FOLIO DS830 .D51 1974.
AUTHOR       De Vos, George A.
TITLE        Japan's minorities: Burakumin, Koreans and Ainu / by George A. De
               Vos and William O. Wetherall.
IMPRINT      London : Minority Rights Group, 1974]
Record 6 of 16
CALL NO.     PL495.7 .S6.
TITLE        Songs of gods, songs of humans : the epic tradition of the Ainu /
               Donald L. Philippi ; with a foreword by Gary Snyder.
IMPRINT      Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1979.
Record 7 of 16
CALL NO.     DS832 .H53.
AUTHOR       Hilger, M. Inez (Mary Inez), 1891-
TITLE        Together with the Ainu; a vanishing people, by M. Inez Hilger, 
               with the assistance of Chiye Sano and Midori Yamaha.
IMPRINT      Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1971]
Record 8 of 16
CALL NO.     GN347 .B74 1997.
AUTHOR       Breitbart, Eric.
TITLE        A world on display : photographs from the St. Louis World's Fair,
               1904 / Eric Breitbart.
IMPRINT      Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1997.
CONTENTS     The Louisiana Purchase Exposition : image and authenticity -- The
               Philippine reservation: Igorots, Bagobos, and "The Missing
               link" -- Ainu and pygmy -- Indians on display -- Conclusion : 
               The Invisible man.