...Tom Looser The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590–1800 . By Brett L. Walker . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2001 . xii, 332 pp. $40.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 292...

...John J. Stephan The Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin . By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney . New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. , 1974 . xvii, 127 pp. Illustrations, Glossary, References. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 BOOK REVIEWS 841...

...David L. Howell European Studies on Ainu Language and Culture . Edited by Josef Kreiner . Monographien aus dem Deutschen Institut für Japanstudien der Philipp-Franz-von-Siebold-Stifung, volume 6. Munich : Iudicium , 1993 . 324 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Harumi Befu An Annotated Bibliography of Ainu Studies by Japanese Scholars . Edited by Martin Gusinde and Chiye Sano . Collectanea Universtatis Catholicae Nanzan Series 3. Tokyo : Heibonsha , 1962 . vii , 109 . n.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 310...

...Richard K. Beardsley The Ainu of Northern Japan. A Study in Conquest and Acculturation . By Takakura Shinichiro . Translated and annotated by John A. Harrison . Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series—Volume 50 , Part 4. Philadelphia : The American Philosophical...

...Gordon T. Bowles The Ainu Language . By Kirsten Refsing . Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus University Press , 1986 . xx, 331 pp. Diagrams, Maps, Danish Summary, Index. N.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 671 his fracture of meaning...

...Kirsten Refsing Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People . Edited by William Fitzhugh and Chisato Dubreuil . Washington : Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, in association with University of Washington Press , 1999 . 415 pp. $75 (cloth), $49.95 (paper). Copyright...

...William R. Lebra Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu: A Symbolic Interpretation . By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1981 . xvi, 245 pp. Appendixes, Notes, References, Index. $34.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983...

...David L. Howell Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 List of References Ainu Bunka Hozon Taisaku Kyōgikai . 1963 . Ainu bunka hozon ni kansuru ikensho (Opinion on the preservation of Ainu culture). n.p. Ainugo Rajio Kōza . “Radio Ainu-language course...

...John Lie Harukor: An Ainu Woman's Tale . By Honda Katsuichi . Translated by Kyoko Selden . With a foreword by David L. Howell. Berkeley : University of California Press , 2000 . xxxv, 350 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001...

...Kirsten L. Ziomek Abstract This article discusses the 1903 Human Pavilion's Ainu Fushine Kōzō, who advanced a notion of imperial subjecthood, where one could be Ainu and a loyal subject of the Japanese empire. Fushine urged that the Ainu be treated equitably not because all races were equal...

... deterioration in Japanese-American relations will not push Japan into a radical program of autonomous rearmament. MARGARET A. MCKEAN T>u\e University The Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin. BY EMIKO OHNUKI-TIERNEY. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1974. xvii, 127 pp. Illustrations...

..., Notes, Select Bibliography, Index. $18.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 672 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES tematic analyses together with John Batchelor's Ainu-English dictionary provided the basic comparative data. Unlike Batchelor, whose main concern...

... the Mongols, Tungus, Koreans and the Malay-Polynesians, and the physical characteristics of the modern Ainu. There follows a study on the relationship of the prehistoric and protohistoric skeletons to the historic Japanese, and to the Ainu. Questions revolve around the identity of the Jomon period people...

... history, culture, religion, and art. This book provides a useful foundation for comparative studies of the Yang Kuei-fei legend. It should be of interest to students of Japanese, Chinese, and comparative literature. YENNA W U University of California, Riverside Harukor: An Ainu Woman's Tale. By H O N D...

... to deal with the problem of language in Japanese letters will be as exacting and persuasive as it is provocative. THOMAS BLENMAN HARE Stanford University The Ainu Language. By KIRSTEN REFSING. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 1986. xx, 331 pp. Diagrams, Maps, Danish Summary, Index. N.p. At last...

... of the intriguing northern to the han as its main income. As demand frontier. outran the subsistence surplus, traders diverted RICHARD K. BEARDSLEY the labor of Ainu men and women alike to pre- University of Michigan paring salt fish and other marine products; no other activity could be capitalized to compen- Mudra...

... . “ Writing the On-Board: Meiji Japan in Transit and Transition .” Journal of Global History 11 ( 2 ): 271 –94. Emori Susumu . 2007 . Ainu minzoku no rekishi [A history of Ainu people]. Urayasu : Sōfūkan . Frontier News . 2011 . March. Fujita Fumiko . 1994 . American Pioneers...

... are "dominated by Japanese people" (p. 58). Richard Siddle traces the evolution of negative images of the Ainu in terms of a succession of center-based ideologies. In the Nara and Heian periods, the Emishi were subsumed under the "barbarian" side of the Sinocentric paradigm of "civilised:barbarian" (p. 75...

... us better understand the nature of violence in South Asia and, by implication, beyond. DAVID L. HOWELL examines ways in which the Ainu were imagined as subjects of the Japanese empire, both by the state and by Ainu activists. He shows that, although assimilation was a widely shared objective, what...