North to Matsumae
Author: Noreen Jones
Publisher: ISBS
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780980296518
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Lonely Planet Japan
Author: Lonely Planet
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Published:
Total Pages: 1291
ISBN-13: 1837585385
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hokkaido
Author: Ann B. Irish
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2009-10-21
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 0786454652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Japanese people have lived on the country's other three main islands--Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku--for many centuries, but ethnic Japanese, or Wajin, began coming to Hokkaido in large numbers only in the latter half of the nineteenth century. This book tells the story of Japan's aboriginal people, the Ainu, followed by that of foreign explorers and ethnic Japanese pioneers. The book pays close attention to the Japanese-Russian conflicts over the island, including Cold War confrontations and more recent clashes over fishing rights and the Hokkaido-administered islands seized by the U.S.S.R. in 1945.
Australia and the World
Author: Joan Beaumont
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Published: 2013-05-20
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1743320000
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Australia and the World celebrates the pioneering role of Neville Meaney in the formation and development of foreign relations history in Australia and his profound influence on its study, teaching and application. The contributors to the volume, historians, practitioners of foreign relations and political commentators, many of whom were taught by Meaney at the University of Sydney over the years, focus especially on the interaction between geopolitics, culture and ideology in shaping Australian and American approaches to the world. Individual chapters examine a number of major themes informing Neville Meaney's work, including the sources and nature of Australia's British identity; the hapless, if dedicated, efforts of Australian politicians, public servants and intellectuals to reconcile this intense cultural identity with Australia's strategic anxieties in the Asia-Pacific region; and the sense of trauma created when the myth of 'Britishness' collapsed under the weight of new historical circumstances in the 1960s. They survey relations between Australia and the United States in the years after World War Two. Finally, they assess the US perceptions of itself as an 'exceptional' nation with a mission to spread democracy and liberty to the wider world and the way in which this self-perception has influenced its behaviour in international affairs.
The Conquest of Ainu Lands
Author: Brett L. Walker
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001-09-19
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780520227361
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the story of the Ainu in what is today far Northern Japan, showing the ecological and cultural processes by which this people's political, economic, and cultural autonomy eroded as they became an ethnic minority in the modern Japanese state.
Engaging the Other: 'Japan' and Its Alter-Egos, 1550-1850
Author: Ronald P. Toby
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-01-21
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 900439351X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Engaging the Other: “Japan and Its Alter-Egos”, 1550-1850 Ronald P. Toby examines new discourses of identity and difference in early modern Japan, a discourse catalyzed by the “Iberian irruption,” the appearance of Portuguese and other new, radical others in the sixteenth century. The encounter with peoples and countries unimagined in earlier discourse provoked an identity crisis, a paradigm shift from a view of the world as comprising only “three countries” (sangoku), i.e., Japan, China and India, to a world of “myriad countries” (bankoku) and peoples. In order to understand the new radical alterities, the Japanese were forced to establish new parameters of difference from familiar, proximate others, i.e., China, Korea and Ryukyu. Toby examines their articulation in literature, visual and performing arts, law, and customs.
Russia and Japan in the Sea of Okhotsk
Author: Scott C.M. Bailey
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-12-01
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1003818765
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bailey describes how the Sea of Okhotsk area became integrated into a world system of economic and cultural ties between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. This happened primarily because of maritime explorations, travel, and trade, which led to increased connections with both Russia and Japan. Individual chapters of the book provide analyses of historical sources which describe cross-cultural encounters and changes in the Sea of Okhotsk area. This includes analyses of explorers and travelers who traversed the region for commerce, exploration, diplomacy, and possible colonization. Historical sources are explored from the different perspectives of Russians, Japanese, Indigenous peoples, and international observers from Western countries. Cross-cultural encounters in the region among these groups led to collaboration, syncretism, and resistance, sometimes violent and sometimes peaceful. The last chapter discusses how some international travelers and foreign residents of Hokkaidō described the area at the end of the nineteenth century. Their perspectives confirm that Hokkaidō had become a fully colonized space. An essential resource for students and scholars of cross-cultural studies, Russian history, Japanese history, and Ainu and Indigenous history.
The Language, Mythology, and Geographical Nomenclature of Japan Viewed in the Light of Aino Studies
Author: Basil Hall Chamberlain
Publisher:
Published: 1887
Total Pages: 198
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Kurillian Knot
Author: Hiroshi Kimura
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008-03-28
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0804786828
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides an answer to the mystery of why no peace treaty has yet been signed between Japan and Russia after more than sixty years since the end of World War Two. The author, a leading authority on Japanese-Russian diplomatic history, was trained at the Russian Institute of Columbia University. This volume contributes to our understanding of not only the intricacies of bilateral relations between Moscow and Tokyo, but, more generally, of Russia's and Japan's modes of foreign policy formation. The author also discusses the U.S. factor, which helped make Russia and Japan distant neighbors, and the threat from China, which might help these countries come closer in the near future. It would be hardly possible to discuss the future prospects of Northeast Asia without having first read this book.
Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan
Author: Richard M. Siddle
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-06-14
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 113482680X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Once thought of as a 'vanishing people', the Ainu are now reasserting both their culture and their claims to be the 'indigenous' people of Japan. Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan is the first major study to trace the outlines of Ainu history. It explores the ways in which competing versions of Ainu identity have been constructed and articulated, shedding light on the way modern relations between the Ainu and the Japanese have been shaped.
