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This paper examines how the representation of the culture of ‘others’ through colonial and human exhibitions in the early 20th century Japan connected to conἀgurate anthropological knowledge and the expansion of Japanese empire. The first human exhibition was held at the Anthropological Gallery of the Domestic Industrial Exhibition in 1903. Tsuboi Shogoro, professor of anthropology of Tokyo Imperial University and his anthropology laboratory, strongly supported the formation of the Anthropological Gallery. Professor Tsuboi appraised the importance of the exhibition in order to the popularize the anthropological knowledge. The 1912 Colonial Exhibition in Tokyo was the more huge and systematic human exhibition. In the 1912 Exhibition not only Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan but Sakhalin and Hokkaido exhibited.