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- 8 Sep 2007
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Interesting article on younger generation indigenous Japanese Ainu active in its revival.
Mina Sakai wanted to improve the status of her people,the 24-year-old Ainu woman from Obihiro, Hokkaido , has succeeded in an unconventional way in boosting public interest in the indigenous people, who are often subject to discrimination in what some people still tend to think of as an ethnically homogeneous society.
Now she also attends an Ainu language course in Tokyo.The Ainu ancestors were not allowed to pass it on under the past assimilation policy of the government.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20071122f3.html
Mina Sakai wanted to improve the status of her people,the 24-year-old Ainu woman from Obihiro, Hokkaido , has succeeded in an unconventional way in boosting public interest in the indigenous people, who are often subject to discrimination in what some people still tend to think of as an ethnically homogeneous society.
Now she also attends an Ainu language course in Tokyo.The Ainu ancestors were not allowed to pass it on under the past assimilation policy of the government.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20071122f3.html