"To Absent Us from Humanity:" Ainu and Population Counts under Russian and Japanese Administration

• Main Author: Hudson, Chelsea Clare
• Other Authors: Sand, Jordan
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Georgetown University 2021
• Subjects: Ainu; Census; Japan; Okhotsk; Russia; Soviet; History; Asia > History; Russia > History; Asian history; Russian history; Home Islands; Pacific; Sakhalin
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1063059

Ph.D. The historical homelands of Ainu, one of the Indigenous peoples of the Sea of Okhotsk region, are split between Russian and Japanese administration. Over the past two centuries, Russo- Japanese competition surrounding the islands we now call Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kuril archipelago has ha...