Sociological consideration concerning the policy, academia, and journalism on the Ainu People in the post-war period

• Project/Area Number: 25380668
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: Higashimura Takeshi 名古屋大学, 国際開発研究科, 教授 (20273211)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
• Keywords: アイヌ民族 / 施策 / 学術 / 報道

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Relations among policy, academia and media reporting on the Ainu people have been examined, focusing on recent movements. Specific findings and outcomes obtained in the research include: (1) setting analytical framework and extracting structural characteristics of industry－government－academia network from late 2000s; (2) a chronology of anthropological research and its development to plan an institution to gather Ainu bones; and (3) trends in Hokkaido Shimbun’s articles on the Ainu and their relations with government policy.