Shifting Images of the Ainu in Japanese society under the historic transformation of the official indigenous policy.

已系统地收集和分析了有关土著阿伊努人的媒体报道和评论。大量获得的材料被加工成12兆字节。在Macintosh操作系统上使用FileMakerPro 2.1（可转换为FileMakerPro 5格式）的机器可读数据库。编译后的数据库包含14,512条记录（85%来自日报，7%来自周刊/月刊，8%来自其他），每条记录包含5到20个关键词用于搜索目的。该调查的最新数据来源为2000年1月。通过分析，共建立了430个主题类别（由108个主文件夹和322个子文件夹组成）。硬拷贝大约。5900条在信息和/或教育价值方面排名较高的记录已被纳入开放文件夹文件系统，供访问浏览器使用。研究期间恰逢《阿伊努文化遗产促进法》（1997年7月）的立法和尼布塔尼大坝裁决（1997年4月）等历史事件，这些事件以及随后几年的长期相关后果。因此，本研究准备的语料库是日本主流社会当代反应的指示性反映，从真诚的（通常是进取的）态度转变到相当反动的民族主义反弹。

Media reports and commentaries with reference to the indigenous Ainu people have been systematically collected and analyzed. Extensively obtained materials have been processed into a 12 megabyte. machine-readable database on Macintosh OS with FileMakerPro 2.1 (convertible, to FileMaker Pro 5 format). The compiled database contains 14,512 records (85% from daily papers, 7% from weekly/monthly periodicals, and 8% from others), each record carrying 5 to 20 keywords for searching purposes. The survey has been up to the latest sources of January 2000. Through the analysis, 430 topic categories (structured by 108 primary folders and 322 subfolders) have been established. Hard copies of approx. 5,900 records of relatively high ranks in their informative and/or instructive values have been accommodated into an open-folder filing system available for visiting browsers.The research period coincides with such historic events as the legislation of the Ainu Cultural Heritage Promotion Law (July 1997) and the Nibutani dam ruling (April 1997), with prolonged and related aftermath in that and subsequent years. Thus, the corpus prepared by this research is an indicative reflection of the contemporary responses of mainstream Japanese society, varying from sincere (and often enterprising) shift of attitudes to rather reactionary ethnocratic backlash.