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The fight for self-representation: Ainu imaginary, ethnicity and assimilation

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2017
Film representation of the Ainu people is as old as cinema but it has not remained stable over time. From the origins of cinema, Ainu people were an object of interest for Japanese and foreign explorers who portrayed them as an Other, savage and isolated
Marcos P. Centeno Martín
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Tied Multitask Learning for Neural Speech Translation

, 2018
We explore multitask models for neural translation of speech, augmenting them in order to reflect two intuitive notions. First, we introduce a model where the second task decoder receives information from the decoder of the first task, since higher-level
Anastasopoulos, Antonios, Chiang, David
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Physical anthropology in Japan: The Ainu and the search for the origins of the Japanese [PDF]

, 2012
In this paper I examine the quest by physical anthropologists in Japan for the origins of the Japanese. A major focus of this research has been the Ainu people of the northern island of Hokkaidō, who have recently been declared an indigenous people of ...
Low, Morris
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Ainu Art: From Craft to Fine Art [PDF]

Гуманитарный вектор
In modern scientific literature there is a lack of works on the new forms of Ainu art, which is considered as traditional and utilitarian. The modernity gives the boost to the development of the new forms of art. However, there are no studies in domestic
Marina V. Osipova
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Creating a minority: the views of Japanese intellectuals and Japan’s policy towards Ainu in the 18th and 19th centuries

Russian Japanology Review, 2021
The article traces how the image of the Ainu formed by Japaneseintellectuals in 18thand early 19thcenturies influenced the formation of Japan’spolicy towards this ethnic minority in the Meiji period (1868-1912).
V. V. Shchepkin
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Predictions of the solar wind interaction with Comet Grigg-Skjellerup [PDF]

, 2008
The planned encounter of the Giotto spacecraft with comet Grigg-Skjellerup on 10th July 1992 promises to extend our knowledge of the solar wind interaction with comets substantially.
Coates, AJ, Huddleston, DE, Johnstone, AD   +2 more
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Ainu Representation in the World of Japanese Comics: Witnessing Indigenous Rights Violations in Japanese Graphic Life Narratives

Távol-keleti Tanulmányok
Chiri Yukie and the Ainu (Chiri Yukie to Ainu 知里幸恵とアイヌ, 2018) and Song of the Kamuy (Kamuy no Uta カムイのうた, 2023) are both Japanese comics that fictionalize the life of Chiri Yukie (1903–1922), an Ainu poet whose first and only published work titled ...
Zsófia Keller
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La minorité aïnoue dans le Japon moderne et contemporain. D’« anciens indigènes », de nouveau(x) autochtones (1869-2019)

Ebisu: Études Japonaises, 2019
Since the annexation of Hokkaidō and assimilation of its indigenous Ainu people, their official status in Japan has evolved to adapt to the diplomatic, ideological, political and economic stakes.
Noémi Godefroy
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Assessment of anatomical outcomes in the upper urinary tract following flexible ureteroscopy with flexible and navigable suction ureteral access sheath: 1‐year results from a multicentre study

BJUI Compass, Volume 7, Issue 5, May 2026.
Abstract Introduction Flexible and navigable suction access sheath (FANS) with flexible ureterorenoscopy (FURS) has demonstrated favourable 30‐day and 3‐month outcomes for renal stones in normal anatomy. We aimed to investigate the long‐term 1‐year safety and efficacy of FANS for renal and ureteric stones in normal or anomalous anatomy.
Steffi Kar Kei Yuen, Chi‐Fai Ng, Khi Yung Fong, Bhaskar Kumar Somani, Boyke Soebhali, Mohamed Elshazly, Vigen Malkhasyan, Karl Tan, Luis Rico, Mehmet Ilker Gokce, Han Jie Lee, Nariman Gadzhiev, Tzevat Tefik, Jianwei Cao, Albert El Hajj, Chi‐Ho Leung, Jeremy Yuen Chun Teoh, Oliver Traxer, Ben Hall Chew, Daniele Castellani, Vineet Gauhar   +20 more
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Ainu Identity and Japan's Identity: The Struggle for Subjectivity

The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 2012
This paper seeks to contribute to the academic debate on the contemporary identity of the Ainu. Ainu, the indigenous people of what today constitutes part of northern Japan, as well as the Russian Kurile Islands and parts of the island of Sakhalin ...
Alexander Bukh
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