Makivik Magazine Issue 72
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An Anthropological Forum:<br />
The Inuit of Nunavik and Ainu of Japan<br />
Learn About Each Other<br />
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BOB MESHER<br />
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For anyone visiting Japan the first time, you quickly notice that<br />
the country is very Japanese. For example most everyone speaks<br />
only Japanese, they bow to each other a lot, take their shoes off<br />
in the restaurants, and a non-Japanese visitor stands out easily<br />
in a crowd.<br />
However, Japan also has its own Indigenous people<br />
— the Ainu from the North— just as in Canada<br />
we have Inuit. But the Japanese government was<br />
not always willing to acknowledge that they had an<br />
indigenous population who have lived there since<br />
time immemorial. Today, the statement made by former<br />
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone in September<br />
1986 that, "Japan is a nation of homogenous people,"<br />
has become infamous.<br />
A delegation of spokespeople for the Inuit in<br />
Québec was among the activists and political leaders<br />
invited to a symposium in Osaka this past January<br />
13th to 15th. <strong>Makivik</strong>'s corporate secretary, George<br />
Berthe; the president of the Association of Montreal<br />
Inuit, Victor Mesher; and Donat Savoie from Indian<br />
and Northern Affairs Canada made presentations.<br />
A number of students, anthropologists, public observers and the<br />
mass media were also in the house.<br />
The international symposium, entitled Indigenous Movements<br />
in Plural Societies: The Inuit in Canada and The Ainu in Japan, took<br />
place at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka. The objective<br />
MAYO KISHIGAMI<br />
MAKIVIK mag a zine<br />
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