The Meiji regime’s nation-building policies

Learning Goal: I\’m working on a history writing question and need support to help me learn.Put yourself in the shoes of an Ainu person who lived through the extension of the boundaries of the old Tokugawa regime to include your ancestral homelands. How might your life change on an everyday level? How might you respond, either individually or collectively to this imposition of colonial rule over you?***As a general rule of thumb, this medium post should be no longer than 500❗ words. ❗ ❗ Please make sure to address the Meiji regime’s nation-building policies as expressed in the readings and lectures❗ ❗Think about how Ainu people would have experienced the imposition of settler-colonial policies on their lands. What aspects of their lives would have changed immediately? Which would not? The last question about how you might respond to these changes is a speculative one — given the options at your disposal and your own proclivities, how might you decide to respond and why? When you reference primary documents like the Meiji era unification documents or the Former Natives Protection Law, please be as specific as possible and use quotes from the texts as much as possible. When you reference secondary documents like Fujitani or Komori, please make sure to provide attribution in some way: you can either say something like: “As Fujitani argues on p. XX, the imperial progress were designed to establish national unity through the emperor…”NOTE：Read: “Collection of Swords, 1588” “Edict on Change of Status, 1591,” “Control of Daimyo, 1595” and “Expulsion of Missionaries, 1587” (Find all under Lu Unification)Read: “Iwakura Mission of 1871,” Takashi Fujitani, Splendid Monarchy, chapter 2.Read: “Excerpts from the Document on the Form of Government (Seitaisho), 1868” “Five Notice Boards, April 6 1868,” “Memorial on the Return of Feudal Domains and Census Registers, March 5 1869,” “Opinion on Military Affairs and Conscription, 1872” (Find under Lu, Meiji Restoration)Read: Komori Yoichi, “Rule in the Name of ‘Protection’: The Vocabulary of Colonialism” and “Hokkaido Former Natives Protection Law (Law №27, March 1, 1899) both in Reading Colonial Japan. Also read Fukuzawa Yukichi, “Goodbye Asia, 1885”
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