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The turning point for Ainu culture was the beginning of the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
A variety of social, political and economic reforms were introduced by the Japanese government, in hope of modernising the country in the Western style, and included the annexation of Hokkaido.
Sjöberg quotes Baba ’ s ( 1980 ) account of the Japanese government's reasoning:
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