#  Michael Thornton (Northeastern University), "Sapporo, the Ainu, and the Nature of Japanese Settler-Colonial Urbanism" 

 



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 **October 3, 2022** 

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Michael Thornton](https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/michael-thornton/)   
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University  
  
Moderator: [Andrew Gordon](https://adgordon.net/)   
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University  
  
*Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Department of History, Harvard University.*  
  
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Additional Resources

1. Michael Thornton, ["A Capitol Orchard: Botanical Networks and the Creation of a Japanese 'Neo-Europe',"](https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/127/2/573/6705179) American Historical Review, Sep. 19, 2022.
2. Kanako Uzawa, ["What does Ainu cultural revitalization mean to Ainu and Wajin youth in the 21st century? Case study of Urespa as a place to learn Ainu culture in the city of Sapporo, Japan,"](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1177180119846665) AlterNative, 2019. Available online through Sage Journals.
3. Mark K. Watson, ["Tokyo Ainu and the Urban Indigenous Experience," ](https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/1047301)Ch. 4 (p. 69-85) in *Beyond Ainu Studies*, University of Hawaii Press, 2014. Available online through Project Muse.



 

 



 

 

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