Shrikant Atre

Agenda
 Revision of L-1
 Warming up exercise
 Your interest, preference (consensus) summary, course plan
 Pre-History of Japan
 Upper Paleolithic (Kyuusekki)
 Jomon
 Yayoi
 Break
 Ainu
 HigashiNihonDaiShinsai (Mar 11, 2011 catastrophe)
 Q&A + Feedback

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Let us revise  Culture definition
 Course Goals
 What is consensus ?
 What is perspective
(two examples)

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 What we must think

Revision 1.
Perspectives
Improve Trust
2. Simplification
3. Unique first concept
being set up in world
4. Customer Delight

Practices Products
1. No clerk at register 1. Weight cross check system
2. DIY style working 2. Voice based guidance
3. No apparent shop lifting 3. Alarm for emergency
4. Customer time saved 4. Currency dispenser etc

What meets the eye What meets the eye

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Warming Up (Video 2 min)
 Fight to catch nuts in 30 seconds, win a prize

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Our chosen topics are
Sr Topic Vote Sr. Topic Vote Sr. Topic Vote

1 Manga 8 8 Shoshikorei 5 15 Ainu 3

ka
2 Shinkansen 7 9 Ojigi 5 16 Noh / 3
Kabuki
3 Train NW 6 10 Hanami 4 17 Fujisan 3

4 Shodou 6 11 Tsunami 4 18 Dolls 3

5 Shintou 6 12 Hiroshima 3 19 Weather 3

Forecast
6 Samurai 5 13 4R 3 20 Washitsu 2

7 Sushi 5 14 Police 3 21 Sake 2

All other votes 13 topics = 19

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Course Plan
Lecture Date Contents Lecture Date Contents
L-1 06.07 Consensus L-8 24.08
L-2 13.07 Mar 11, Ainu, Prehistory L-9 31.08
L-3 20.07 Shinto, Fuji, Sado, History L-10 07.09
L-4 27.07 L-11 14.09
L-5 03.08 L-12 21.09
L-6 10.08 L-13 28.09
L-7 17.08 L-14 05.10

You will have to attend 2 workshops and have 2 presentation days

MT-1 will be History focussed, MT-II will be Geography focussed.

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Rekishi
Prehistoric Period
 Estimated 35000 BC to 14000 BC
 Fujimura scandal
 Unique ground obsidian stone tools
 Mostly northern Japan
 No human fossils found / saline
 Volcanic ash / eruptions
 Ash can be easily dated

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Jomon Period
 14000 BC to 300 BC
 Hunter Gatherers
entered in Japan via sea
route, Horticulture
 Edward Morse first used
words “Cord Marked =
縄文”
 Incipient Jomon (14000 – 7500 BCE)
 Initial Jomon (7500 – 4000 BCE)
 Early Jomon (4000 – 3000 BCE)
 Middle Jomon (3000 – 2000 BCE)
 Late Jomon (2000 – 1000 BCE)
 Final Jomon (1000 – 300 BCE)
 Epi-Jomon (continued in Hokkaido
after arrival of Yayoi till 500 CE)

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Jomon Art : Doki Pottery & Dogu Dolls

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Yayoi Period
 300 BC to 300 AD
 Agriculture
 Yayoi came by boats
from Korean route
 Assimilated Jomon
 Bronze artifacts
 Wheel for pottery
 Chinese literary records
more than Japanese

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Yayoi Art and Haniwa Statues

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Ainu
of
ア
Japan イ
ヌ
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Ainu

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Ainu – A look at their History
 Ainu – Anthropologists place them close to Jomon people of Japan
 Nomadic Tribes – Fishing Hunting
 Also known as AYNU, EZO, EMISHI, AINO
 Came as early as 200 BC to Hokkaido from northern routes
 Women Tattoo faces, burn houses after death etc cultural beliefs
 Wa-Jin assimilated them since Edo, but most brutal suppression
during Meiji Period as Japan wanted to confront Russia (Kaitakushi
days)
 Only 25000 Ainu left nowadays
 Separate Language, separate Katagana type Moji
 AAH opposition to HFAPA (1899 law) and other acts of oppression,
 In 1987 AAH approached UNWGIP.
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Ainu – What the world knows now ! 14 min

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Ainu in Tokyo (7 min)

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Ainu – Today is bright, or is it ??
 Kayano Shigeru became a Diet Member in 1983.
 1987 Nibutani Dam suit case
 Most notable AINU leader – Nomura Giichi made speech in UN in
1992.
 1997 Law (Murakami Govt draft in 1994) that Japanese society is
multi-cultural boosted the repealing of HFAPA, 1899, and Ainu
started movement to get back their lost properties and land.
 2008 – Japanese officially recognized AINUs were discriminated
and no such thing would happen again.
 Conclusively the mere existence of AINU shatters the wide-
spread belief that Japan is a Mono-Ethnic State
(Quote – PM Yasuhiro Nakasone, 1986)

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東日本大震災

Earthquake
Tsunami
Radiation Leak
All in one day, March 11,
2011

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March 11, 2011

 Only Natural Chain

of calamities in
Japan which killed
more Japanese than
any other disaster
after world war and
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First the Earthquakes

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Then came a huge tsunami

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Let us see news coverage that day

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Then Fukushima reactor burst

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Japan’s losses
 2:46 pm on March 11, 2011
 Richter Scale 8.4 to 9.0 earthquake occurs
 10 – 20 m high tsunami hits Japan east coast
 15889 lives lost (official death record as of
10 Feb 2014, NPA), 6152 injured, 2601
missing
 127290 buildings totally collapsed, 747,989
partially damaged
 Fukushima daiichi reactor burst led to
acute power shortages in entire nation, as it
caused for a haul of operations in all 56
reactors in use
 US$ 34.6 billions of primary estimated
losses, world bank estimates are 10 times
higher than this
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A moment of silence for victims

Team AFJ, donating

51000 Rs cheque to
CG Tamon Mochida
san in Mumbai in
July 2011

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Assignments
Sr. No. I know following about………………... …
……………………………..before we start discussions
 Assignment sheet on this topic
L-side completion
for 1
 Fujisan
 Shintou 2

 Sadou
3

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 Those who do assignments…
 Present for L-1 = 38, Absent = 04,

 Email sending to me = 7 failed, 31

wrote emails

 Now we have 40 on board

 Assignments are being

monitored for internal work

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 Revision & Feedback
Revision Feedback

 Pre-History  Time
 March 11 catastrophe  Explanation
 Ainu  Contents
 Other
Next Lecture L-3
 20th July 2019  History
 Saturday  Kofun/Asuka jidai
 10 am to 1:30 pm  Nara jidai
 Heian jidai
 Fujisan + Shintou
 Sadou

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Thank You ! Any Questions ?
Back Up 2 – Chiri (Geography)

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Japan locator map

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