Ainu resolution to be adopted next week

Saturday 31st May, 04:24 PM JST

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keshii at 06:05 PM JST - 31st May

This is great news; a long over-due action by the government. Huzzah.
The_Marion at 01:15 AM JST - 1st June

Careful, you are opening up a can of worms. The Ryukyu Islands are also a very indigenous entity and the Japanese made them adopt their ways and speak their language -- uch the same as the Ainu.

Then Japan lost WWII and the Cairo Accords were enacted and "all lands taken by vilolence of greed were to be returned to their rightful owners."

Much of the Ainu territory was returned to the Russians and they will never return them to the Japanese.

On the other hand the Japanese surreptitiously bought the Ryukyu Islands back via a "secret deal" and the Ryukyus being a indigenous entity meant very little to the Japanese
NuckinFutz at 08:54 AM JST - 1st June

I'm afraid this is only a publicity move ahead of a Hokkaido meeting of worldwide indigenous groups. Japan doesn't want to be the ONE country in attendance who hasn't recognized someone. I doubt there will be any benefit to the Ainu.
smithinjapan at 06:37 PM JST - 1st June

Only took 3000 years.
smithinjapan at 02:56 AM JST - 2nd June

Good on them recognizing the Ainu. I just hope that they actually grant some rights to them as well, being that they are the only native people to this archipelago, while all the rest of the Japanese came from China and Korea.