Japan will recognize the country's completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly Ainu group as an "indigenous" completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly for the first completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly . Ainu people campaigned for completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly for this. The Ainu are an indigenous people from the completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly island of Hokkaido and islands between Japan and Russia. Their completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly number is around 25,000, but people say there are around 200,000. Many Ainu have been completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly absorbed into Japanese completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly . They have little completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly of their completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly . Japan Today wrote about the Ainu's completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly . It said they, "have completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly suffered the completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly of a policy of forced assimilation, and while completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly has [lessened] completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly , income and education gaps with the completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly of Japan persist". Japan said it wants to, "protect the completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly and dignity of the Ainu...to realize a vibrant completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly ". An Ainu spokesman said: "It feels like we woke up...from a completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly deep sleep...We think completely decades discrimination effects ethnic gradually hardships history honor knowledge long northern official people rest society this time truly is the first step."