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Yaguchi, Yujin. "The Ainu in U.S.-Japan Relations," American Studies, College of William and Mary, December 1999.
This dissertation reevaluated the significance of the Ainu in U.S.-Japan relations. Specifically, it emphasizes a trilateral configuration of relations among the Japanese, the Americans, and the Ainu in Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan, in the period since the middle of the nineteenth century. By analyzing a wide range of documentary, visual, and material sources available in the United States and Japan, the study discusses specific connections that existed between the Ainu, Americans, and Japanese in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and reconceptualizes the terrain of the intercultural history of the United States and Japan. Moreover, by inserting the Ainu into the constructions of past and present human relationships in Hokkaido, the dissertation complicates and problematizes framework of the conventional understanding of the relationship between the two nations.
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