Japan claims the occupation was a brazen example of opportunism, and says the islands had been inhabited by its indigenous Ainu people for centuries.
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The report officially acknowledged for the first time the indigenous nature and ethnic distinction of the Ainu people, further affirming their unique cultural heritage.
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The songs found in the far northern island of HokkaidM and sung by the Ainu people are usually excluded from the category of min'yM.
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Ainu people are an ethnic group indigenous to HokkaidM, northern Honshk, the Kuril Islands, much of Sakhalin, and the southernmost third of the Kamchatka peninsula.
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Ever since the Meiji period, Japanese has become widely used among the Ainu people and consequently Ainu languages have been classified critically endangered by UNESCO.
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The katana, typically acquired through trade, was used by the Ainu people in a machete-like fashion rather than a weapon as it was originally intended to be.
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The authorities took an administrative action that was offensive to the Ainu people immediately after receiving a panel report saying that the Ainu culture should be respected.
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He was a charismatic and iconoclastic missionary for the Anglican Church in Japan and published highly regarded work on the language and culture of the Ainu people.
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However, Chanet said Japan has made positive moves toward gender equality, an in promoting the rights of the Ainu people and abolishing the forced sterilization of disabled women.
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It was an adaption of the children s book " Stories of Korobokkle " by Satoru Sato, which was itself based on some northern Japan's folktales from Ainu people.
