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The 1903 Human Pavilion: Colonial Realities and Subaltern Subjectivities in Twentieth-Century Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2014

Kirsten L. Ziomek
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This article discusses the 1903 Human Pavilion's Ainu Fushine Kōzō, who advanced a notion of imperial subjecthood, where one could be Ainu and a loyal subject of the Japanese empire. Fushine urged that the Ainu be treated equitably not because all races were equal, a rather modern and Western notion, but because he viewed imperial subjecthood as predicated upon military conscription and being children of the emperor. I examine the removal of the Okinawan women, Nakamura Kame and Uehara Ushi, from the display, amidst a larger debate where competing visions of imperial subjecthood and what it meant to be civilized were tied up with the charge that the pavilion was a humanitarian concern (jindō mondai). The Human Pavilion became a nexus between colonial and imperial subjects, which, rather than reifying distinctions between the two, called into question the coherence of civilizational taxonomies in Japan and the world.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 73 , Issue 2 , May 2014 , pp. 493 - 516
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014 

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