Japanese Identity early in the Bcginning of Modern Japan Folklore and Folklife Department

我们从1996年到1998年进行了为期三年的“近代日本初期的日本身份认同”研究。以近代日本早期形成的民俗学和民族学为中心，探讨了日本人如何在二战前的几十年里，将自己定位为日本人和其他被日本政府统治的阿伊努人、朝鲜人、台湾人等民族。当时，许多研究这些民族的民俗学家和民族学家已经区分了日本文化和其他民族文化。同时，他们也发现了日本文化的多样性。近代日本之初，民俗学与民族学的发展与日本民族国家的建立过程之间的关系必须有深刻的认识。

We have been studying the Program "Japanese Identity early in the Beg inning of Modern Japan" for three years during 1996 and 1998.Focusing on Folklore and Ethnology which was originated in early beginning of modern Japan, we have cleared how Japanese had been making sell-identity as Japanese and the other ethnic group as Ainu, Korean, Taiwanese whose were governed by Japanese government for several tens years before World War II.At that tine, many Folkrorist and Ethnologist who reserched these ethnic groups, had distinguished what was japanese culture and the other. At the same time they had discovered how Japan had cultural diversities.We have to understand deeply the relationship between the development of Folklore and Ethnology and the process of establishment of Japanese Nation State early in the beginning of modern Japan.