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	Hokkaido Utari Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hokkaido Utari Association (北海道ウタリ協会 Hokkaidō Utari Kyōkai) is an umbrella group of which most Hokkaido Ainu and some other Ainu are members.
		Originally controlled by the government with the intention of speeding Ainu assimilation and integration into the Japanese nation state, it now operates independently of the government and is run exclusively by Ainu.
		It was established in 1930 under the name Hokkaido Ainu Association (北海道アイヌ協会 Hokkaidō Ainu Kyōkai).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hokkaido_Utari_Association (131 words)

	Ainu people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		IPA: /ˈainu/) are an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaido which is north of Honshu in Northern Japan, the Kuril Islands, much of Sakhalin, and the southernmost third of the Kamchatka peninsula.
		Its name was changed to Hokkaido during the Meiji Restoration as part of the programme to "unify" the Japanese national character under the aegis of the Emperor, thus reducing the local identity and autonomy of the different regions of Japan.
		There is an umbrella group of which most Hokkaido Ainu and some other Ainu are members, called the Hokkaido Utari Association, originally controlled by the government with the intention of speeding Ainu assimilation and integration into the Japanese nation-state but which now operates mostly independently of the government and is run exclusively by Ainu.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ainu_people (1769 words)

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		To resist the oppression by the Japanese, the Ainu waged the Battle of Kosyamain in 1457, the Battle of Syaksyain in 1669, and the Battle of Kunasiri-Menasi in 1789.
		At the Hokkaido Ainu Convention in Shizunai, Hokkaido, in 1946, the Hokkaido Ainu Association was established primarily to provide higher education and collaborate in the construction of social welfare facilities.
		In 1984, the Hokkaido Utari Association resolved that the Government should enact the New Ainu Law (tentative name), a new law which replaces the current "Hokkaido Aborigine Protection Act." Since then, the association has been conducting an active campaign to demand that the national government enact the New Ainu Law as soon as possible.
	www.ainu-museum.or.jp /english/eng01.html (781 words)

	USJP.org: Living Together - The Ainu and the Okinawans
		The Utari Association successfully lobbied for a social welfare project for the Ainu to improve their living standards, by building public houses and public baths in 1961.
		The Hokkaido Administration implemented the Hokkaido Utari Welfare Measures from 1974 to 1980 with a budget of almost 12 billion yen, 41 percent from the national treasury (Siddle 1997:33).
		In 1987, the Utari Association asked the Hokkaido University of Education to offer a course in Ainu history and culture, and in 1991 the five campuses of the University offered 17 courses that were wholly or partially devoted to Ainu history, culture, and language.
	www.usjp.org /livingtogether_en/ltAinuOkinawans_en.html (6954 words)

	Japan's Suppression of Ainu Moshiri
		The Hokkaido Former Aborigines Protection Act, which granted certain tracts of land to Ainu people, limits the transfer of those lands by Ainu people, and places their common property under the control of the governor of Hokkaido.
		According to a Hokkaido prefectural government survey conducted in 1986, the number of poor Ainu households receiving grants under the Livelihood Protection Act is three times higher than that of comparable Japanese households, clearly demonstrating that the Ainu livelihood is extremely unstable.
		The Hokkaido prefectural government and the Ministry of Health and Welfare notified the day nursery that no language other then Japanese should be used in the Nursery if it wished to receive operational subsidies from the government body.
	www.cwis.org /fwj/22/ainusupp.htm (1790 words)

	APM - Divided Lives
		Among these were the Ainu peoples of Hokkaido, the Kurile Islands and the southern half of Sakhalin, who in turn had close trading relations with the societies of Northern Sakhalin, the Kamchatka Peninsula on the easternmost fringe of Siberia.
		What is known is that all around the southern half of the Okhotsk sea, from north coast of Hokkaido to the Kurile Islands and the northern tip of Sakhalin, people followed a broadly similar way of life based on fishing, sealing and whaling combined with the keeping of pigs and dogs.
		In 1984, the leading Ainu organisation, the Hokkaido Utari Association, put forward demands for a new law which would recognise Ainu as the original inhabitants of Hokkaido, the Kurile Islands and much of Southern Sakhalin and guarantee seats for Ainu representatives in the Japanese Diet (Parliament) and Hokkaido local assemblies.
	coombs.anu.edu.au /SpecialProj/APM/TXT/morris-s-01-96.html (3985 words)

	Through a shifting lens of national identity: investigating ways to approach ideas of self and 'other': Introducing ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hokkaido is home for most of the estimated 24, 000 to 50,000 Ainu people; with exact numbers unknown, since many hide their ethnicity or have left Hokkaido in search of better lives (Ainu no seikatsu jitsuyuu, 2004).
		Obvious areas for further interview and survey research are gender comparisons of perceptions of national identity and the 'other' among ethnic Japanese and studies specific to the ethnic Japanese perceptions of the Ainu people.
		Also what is taught about the Ainu in Hokkaido schools, and if and how the supplementary texts by FRPAC are used in the classroom, remains unexamined.
	namascape.com /ainu/research/research2.html (3722 words)

	Japan Forums - View Single Post - ainu people?
		They were defeated by the Japanese (Yamato) armies in around the 16th century and relegated to Hokkaido (formerly known as Ezo, or "Land of Savages"), which came to be governed as a feudal fiefdom by the Matsumae clan throughout the Edo period.
		The Meiji Period (1868-1912) saw a massive influx of Japanese migrants to Hokkaido, at which time the government adopted an assimilation policy under which the Ainu language was banned, traditional customs were outlawed, and the Ainu were forced to adopt Japanese names.
		The 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics, which characterized Hokkaido as having been a "no-man's-land until a century previous" served as an impetus to increased Ainu activism, challenging the notion that Japan is a homogeneous society.
	www.gaijinpot.com /bb/showpost.php?p=68282&postcount=2 (646 words)

	ORIENT: Ainu
		Still, others wonder if they are descendants of northeastern Hokkaido's prehistoric people, or the last of a separate race that occupied Hokkaido for more than 7,000 years.
		Hokkaido natives were fed up with constant battle for their land and its resources.
		Today, hunting abundantly in Hokkaido's forests would be as difficult as determining the origin of the Ainu.
	www.orientmag.com /7-31.htm (1747 words)

	Japan Interest Groups
		Although supermarkets and large discount department stores are more common than in the 1980s, the political muscle of small business associations was reflected in the success with which they blocked the rationalization of the country's distribution system.
		Citizens and consumer movements, which became prominent during the 1960s and 1970s, were organized around issues relating to the quality of life, the protection of the environment from industrial pollution, and the safety (although not the cost) of consumer goods.
		Their activities depend on the support of neighborhood women's associations, the women's sections of local agricultural and fishing cooperatives, and government-sponsored consumer education groups.
	www.country-studies.com /japan/interest-groups.html (2292 words)

	Ainu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Ainu (a word meaning "human" in the Ainu language; Ezo, or Yezo, (蝦夷) in Japanese) are an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaido, the northern part of Honshu in Northern Japan, the Kurile Islands, much of Sakhalin, and the southernmost third of the Kamchatka peninsula.
		There are over 150,000 Ainu today, however the exact figure is not known as many Ainu hide their origins or in many cases are not even aware of them, their parents having kept it from them so as to protect their children from racism.
		There is an umbrella group of which most Hokkaido Ainu and some other Ainu are members, called the Hokkaido Utari Association, originally controlled by the government with the intention of speeding Ainu assimilation and integration into the Japanese nation-state but which now operates independent of the government and is run exclusively by Ainu.
	www.aseannewsnetwork.de /articles/content/a/ai/ainu.html (1276 words)

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		In 1984 the Hokkaido Utari kyokai, (the Ainu Association of Hokkaido), the largest organization representing the Ainu of Hokkaido, proposed a draft, the Ainu Shinpo, ‘Ainu new law’ to replace the assimilation policy from 1899.
		According to the Hokkaido government of Ainu socio-economic indicators 37.2% Hokkaido Ainu residents as opposed to 18.4% wajin Hokkaido residents are in welfare.
		Ainu vs. the Governor of Hokkaido, the case was over the lack of satisfaction over the compensation for the Ainu communal property which under the CPA was seized under the 1899 Protection Act.
	www.courses.rochester.edu /pollack/JPN246/finalreports2006/Rocha246.doc (3325 words)

	Humbul : Japanese Studies : Japanese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Association focuses on academic research on dictionaries and lexicography, but the site will also be of interest to researchers in other areas of applied linguistics.
		The Association of Teachers of Japanese is an international organisation of scholars, teachers and students of Japanese language, linguistics and literature at all levels, based in the USA.
		The British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language promotes Japanese-language education in the UK, encouraging research in the field and providing practical ideas for teaching.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/headlist.php?sub=japanese&code=FN.712 (818 words)

	Editorial
		In its drive to 'settle' the island of Hokkaido, the government invited specialists on assimilation policies aimed at Native Americans from the United States.
		However, this support is limited to those Ainu who live in Hokkaido only; the Ainu living outside of Hokkaido are not eligible for support.
		Many Ainu have migrated to large cities outside of Hokkaido to look for jobs and hoping that discrimination would be milder in the city.
	rspas.anu.edu.au /asiarightsjournal/Background.html (691 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ainu language; Emishi, Ezo, or Yezo, in old Japanese; Utari,ウタリ, now preferred by some members) are an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaido, the northern part of
		Sambutsu especially, on the eastern coast, many children of such marriages may be seen.
		Hokkaido Utari Association, originally controlled by the government with the intention of speeding Ainu assimilation and integration into the Japanese nation-state but which now operates independent of the government and is run exclusively by Ainu.
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Ainu.html (1200 words)

	An estimated 6,809 living languages are spoken in the world today (Ethnologue: Geographic Distribution, 2000), yet most ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The former, FRPC, was established in Sapporo with an endowment of 100 million yen (90 million from the Hokkaido Government and 10 million from 62 municipalities in Hokkaido with Ainu residents).
		Few language classes, however, appear to be offered outside of Hokkaido, and one Tokyo-based Ainu reported that the manner in which the government-funded classes were administered and taught conformed to Japanese practice, which was not “comfortable and natural” for her people (Hasegawa, 2002).
		This association, the largest Ainu human rights group, also initially wrote a draft for the initial 1997 legislation that contained strong emphasis on language learning at the elementary, secondary, and university levels, but the final ACP Act removed this passage and made no mention of linguistic or indigenous rights (Tezuka, 2004, p.
	namascape.com /ainu/research/research1/research1.html (3863 words)

	Japan - GOVERNMENT
		Four of each of the last two types of courts were located in Hokkaido, and one of each in the remaining forty-six rural prefectures, urban prefectures, and the Tokyo Metropolitan District.
		With the exception of Hokkaido and colonial territories in Asia between 1895 and 1945, there was no "frontier" to absorb excess people.
		One solution was to ignore the welfare of large sectors of the population (poor peasants and workers) and to use force when they expressed their discontent.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/japan/GOVERNMENT.html (17381 words)

	Aboriginal Planet - Nunavut students get "royal treatment" in Japan
		The next stops were all on Japan’’s northern island of Hokkaido, the traditional homeland of the Ainu.
		In Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, the students visited the offices of the Utari Association, the main Ainu political organization (similar to ITC in Canada).
		The association also has a program to send their youth abroad to meet other indigenous peoples, and the NS students encouraged them to consider Nunavut as a destination some day.
	www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /aboriginalplanet/750/archives/may2002/art8_main-en.asp?prn=1 (1321 words)

	"Japanese" and "Non-Japanese":
		Japanese who came to dominate the archipelago, are still to be found, living mainly in Hokkaido and struggling to maintain their distinctive and long-suppressed culture.
		However, the day their Japanese associates discover that they are of Korean extraction is the day they cease to be viewed as fellow Japanese.
		The Utari Association's efforts brought a partial victory on May 9, 1997, when the 1899 Law on the Protection of Former Indigenous People of Hokkaido (Hokkaido Kyu-Dojin Hogo Ho) was finally abolished and replaced with a new law that established a government foundation for the promotion of Ainu culture.
	tabunka.org /newsletter/jap_and_non.html (4927 words)

	Summary Records - CERD - Japan - CERD/C/SR.1443 (2001)
		The fiscal year 2001 would be the last year of the Fourth Hokkaido Utari Welfare Measures and a study of their overall results was under way.
		According to the Ainu Association of Hokkaido, the Ainu (also known as Utari), who were the original inhabitants of Japan and now numbered 50,000, had their own language, customs and culture, and their livelihood was basically restricted to fishing, hunting and harvesting.
		In regard to article 4, which was binding on all States parties, the Committee's attitude had traditionally been that the right of association and freedom of expression were not absolute and could not be invoked, for example, to disrupt legitimately established order or foment internal discord.
	www.bayefsky.com /summary/japan_cerd_c_sr.14432001.php (7255 words)

	Japan - INTEREST GROUPS
		These groups range from those with economic interests, such as occupational and professional associations, to those with strong ideological commitments, such as the right-wing Society to Protect Japan and the left-wing Japan Teachers Union (Nihon Kyoshokuin Kumiai-- Nikkyoso).
		Despite repeated disavowals, the Komeito remains related to its parent body, the Value Creation Society (Soka Gakkai), an organization of lay followers of the Buddhist sect Nichiren Shoshu, founded before World War II and one of Japan's most successful new religions (see Komeito, this ch.; Religious and Philosophical Traditions, ch.
		The communists had their own unions and small business groups, which competed with conservative small business associations.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-7262.html (673 words)

	asahi.com：Voice of the Ainu speaks to the people - ENGLISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Certain tracts of land were designated for Ainu people, their common property placed under the control of the governor of Hokkaido, and education guidelines outlined by the state.
		In 1946, the Ainu Association of Hokkaido was formed to improve the people's livelihood and education.
		A Hokkaido government census two years later noted that after falling fairly continuously from 26,256 in 1807 to a low of 15,969 in 1931, the Ainu population in Hokkaido had increased to about 24,000 in 1999.
	www.asahi.com /english/Herald-asahi/TKY200605220128.html (1210 words)

	Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People
		Giichi Nomura, Former Executive Director of Utari Kyokai (Ainu Association of Hokkaido), addressing the United Nations General Assembly, 10 December 1992 UN 182264
		Sakhalin Ainu refugees, who had been resettled in Hokkaido, transformed their traditional nipopo ("wooden baby") figurines, previously used as children's amulets, into a new type that became a popular early twentieth-century tourist item.
		"When Japanese came to Hokkaido they really hit the Ainu homelands very hard and took away their fishing stations, many of their resources and Ainu were left with very few ways to make a living.
	www.mnh.si.edu /arctic/ainu/html/room06.html (756 words)

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