“I’m terrified of what will happen to a society that silently watches a Diet member who incites discrimination,” said Ryoko Tahara, an Ainu activist, citing recent comments by Mio ...

The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of northeastern Japan, occupied the site. Many archeologists consider the Ainu to be the last living descendants of the Jomon ...

The Ainu were deprived of their own customs ... Rights of Indigenous Peoples and a related resolution adopted by the Diet in the following year. Politics should help build a society where both ...