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Among the displays touting the industrialized progress and future of the nation at the 1903 Fifth Industrial Exhibition in Osaka, visitors were presented with an opportunity to judge just how far Japanese had come in contrast to some of the primitive Asian peoples within the region of the Japanese empire, at an exhibit called âThe House of Peoples.â Inside a thatched-roof hut, a man with a whip presided over a display of Koreans, positions 1:3 8 1993 by Duke University Press. Winter 1993 Ainu, Taiwanese aborigines, and two Okinawan women. Despite the blandly cosmopolitan name of the exhibit, the absence of âJapaneseâ (besides the man with the whip) in a display of ethnic groups in the Japanese empire signaled the structure of domination between the colonized/ discriminated representatives on display and the universalized imperial race (tenson minzoku) constituting the Gaze.3 Okinawan newspapers reacted to the display with rage, claiming that lining up Okinawans with primitives and inferior ethnic groups was a slur against the Okinawans, who were âreal Japanese.â Subjected to ethnic discrimination which, in practice, associated them with subjugated peoples, Okinawans tended to insist on their legitimate âJapaneseness,âusing a variety of arguments ranging from common archaic origins
positions asia critique – Duke University Press
Published: Dec 1, 1993
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