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This is an important and timely contribution. Only as recently as 2009 the Japanese government for the first time recognized Ainu Indigeneity for those residing outside of Hokkaido. It is a story with much more to follow and this book provides an original perspective from which to understand the shared human and historical experiences that are likely to direct urban Indigenous policy and lives in Japan and beyond.

Pamela J. Asquith, University of Alberta, Canada

Japans Ainu Minority in Tokyo

This book is about the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, living in and around Tokyo; it is, therefore, about what has been pushed to the margins of history. Customarily, anthropologists and public officials have represented Ainu issues and political affairs as limited to rural pockets of Hokkaido. Today, however, a significant proportion of the Ainu people live in and around major cities on the main island of Honsh, particularly Tokyo. Based on extensive original ethnographic research, this book explores this largely unknown diasporic aspect of Ainu life and society. Drawing from debates on place-based rights and urban indigeneity in the twenty-first century, the book engages with the experiences and collective struggles of Tokyo Ainu in seeking to promote a better understanding of their cultural and political identity and sense of community in the city. Looking in-depth for the first time at the urban context of ritual performance, cultural transmission and the construction of places or hubs of Ainu social activity, this book argues that recent government initiatives aimed at fostering a national Ainu policy will ultimately founder unless its architects are able to fully recognize the historical and social complexities of the urban Ainu experience.

Mark Watson is an Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
Series Editor:
Joy Hendry, Oxford Brookes University

Editorial Board:

Pamela Asquith, University of Alberta
Eyal Ben Ari, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hirochika Nakamaki, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
Kirsten Refsing, University of Copenhagen
Wendy Smith, Monash University

Founder Member of the Editorial Board:

Jan van Bremen, University of Leiden

A Japanese View of Nature
The world of living things by Kinji Imanishi
Translated by Pamela J. Asquith, Heita Kawakatsu, Shusuke Yagi and Hiroyuki Takasaki
Edited and introduced by Pamela J. Asquith

Japans Changing Generations
Are young people creating a new society?
Edited by Gordon Mathews and Bruce White

The Care of the Elderly in Japan
Yongmei Wu

Community Volunteers in Japan
Everyday stories of social change
Lynne Y. Nakano

Nature, Ritual and Society in Japans Ryukyu Islands
Arne Rkkum

Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan
The Japanese introspection practice of naikan
Chikako Ozawa-de Silva

Dismantling the EastWest Dichotomy
Essays in honour of Jan van Bremen
Edited by Joy Hendry and Heung Wah Wong

Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan
Edited by Maria Rodriguez del Alisal, Peter Ackermann and Dolores Martinez

The Culture of Copying in Japan
Critical and historical perspectives
Edited by Rupert Cox

Primary School in Japan
Self, individuality and learning in elementary education
Peter Cave

Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture
An ethnography of a Japanese corporation in France
Mitchell W. Sedgwick

Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture
Edited by Sylvie Guichard-Anguis and Okpyo Moon

Making Japanese Heritage
Edited by Christoph Brumann and Robert A. Cox

Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony
The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan
Kaeko Chiba

Home and Family in Japan
Continuity and transformation
Edited by Richard Ronald and Allison Alexy

Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria:
The lives of war orphans and wives in two countries
Yeeshan Chan

Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto
Claiming a right to the past
Christoph Brumann

Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan
Soka Gakkai youth and Komeito
Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen

Language, Education and Citizenship in Japan
Genaro Castro-Vzquez?

Death and Dying in Contemporary Japan
Hikaru Suzuki

Disability in Japan
Carolyn S. Stevens

Ascetic Practices in Japanese Religion
Tullio Federico Lobetti

Japanese Tree Burial
Ecology, kinship and the culture of death
Sbastien Penmellen Boret

Japans Ainu Minority in Tokyo
Diasporic Indigeneity and urban politics
Mark K. Watson

The First European Description of Japan, 1585
A critical English-language edition of striking contrasts in the customs of Europe and Japan by Luis Frois, S.J.
Translated, edited and annotated by Richard K. Danford, Robin D. Gill and Daniel T. Reff

Japans Ainu Minority in Tokyo

Diasporic indigeneity and urban politics

Mark K. Watson

First published 2014
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Watson, Mark K.
Japans Ainu minority in Tokyo : diasporic indigeneity and urban politics/ Mark K. Watson.
pages cm. (Japan anthropology workshop series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. AinuJapanTokyoEthnic identity. 2. AinuJapanTokyoSocial conditions. 3. AinuJapanTokyoPolitics and government. 4. Tokyo (Japan)Ethnic relations. 5. Tokyo (Japan)Social conditions. I. Title.
DS832.W38 2014
305.8946052135dc23
2013033540

ISBN: 978-0-415-68753-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-81543-5 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman
by Taylor & Francis Books

For Cynthia

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This exciting new contribution to the Japan Anthropology Workshop series contributes on several levels to the goal of taking readers beyond the usual views of Japan. Mark Watson takes us into the world of the urban Ainu. In doing so he illustrates how non-Hokkaido Ainu life is a critical dimension of the identity of modern Ainu, hitherto considered a northern Indigenous people mostly confined to Hokkaido.

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