Minority cultures of Japan Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
part of human activity and associated with the minority peoples of Japan
About Minority cultures of Japan
After the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan began to expand, adopting the Western model ofcolonialism, first annexing the island of Ezo in 1869, and renaming it toHokkaido. Prior to annexation, Ezo was considered to foreign land that was not part of any country, mainly inhabited by the indigenous Ainu people, with pockets of Japanese settlement on the southern tip, but a settler colonial policy instituted by the Meiji government resulted in large-scale Japanese settlement of Hokkaido following annexation. The Ainu were dispossessed of their land, forced to assimilate and heavily discriminated against by the Japanese government. The Ryukyu Kingdom, which until then had been an independent kingdom that was a tributary state ofImperial China, was annexed by Japan asOkinawaprefecture in 1879. T
Minority cultures of Japan Travel Guide Sections
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