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Our Land Was A Forest: An Ainu Memoir (Transitions--Asia and the Pacific) by Kayano Shigeru, Professor Mark Selden, Mikiso Hane, Kyoko Selden Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-8133-1880-7 / 0813318807 ISBN-13: 978-0-8133-1880-6 / 9780813318806 This book is a beautiful and moving personal account of the Ainu, the native inhabitants of Hokkaido, Japan's northern island, whose land, economy, and culture have been absorbed and destroyed in recent centuries by advancing Japanese. Based on the author's own experiences and on stories passed down |