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The Japanese government has introduced a ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues to recognize the country's ethnic Ainu ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues group as an "indigenous" people. It is the ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues time for Japan's government to do ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues. It comes after decades of lobbying and campaigning by Ainu people to be recognized. The Ainu are an ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues people of Japan originating in Japan's northern ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues of Hokkaido, north-eastern Honshu, and islands between Japan and Russia. Their ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues number today is around 25,000, but many ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues estimate a more accurate figure to be around 200,000. Many Ainu have been completely assimilated into Japanese ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues and have no knowledge of their ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues or historical roots, traditions and culture.

The Japan Today website wrote about the ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues the Ainu have faced. It said: "The Ainu people...have long suffered the ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues of a policy of forced ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues, and while discrimination has receded gradually, income and education gaps with the ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues of Japan persist." Japan's government spoke about the ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues of passing the new legislation. It said: "It is important to protect the honor and ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues of the Ainu people and to hand those down to the next ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues to realize a vibrant society with diverse ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues." Ainu spokesman Tadashi Kato said: "It feels like we woke up now from a truly ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues sleep....It will lead to building a society where we cohabit together. We think this is the first ancestryassimilationbilldeepdignityeffectsfirstgenerationhardshipsimportanceindigenousislandminorityobserversofficialrestsocietystepthisvalues."