Gap Fill - Ainu - Level 4

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Japan will recognize the country's Ainu group as an "indigenous" for the first . Ainu people campaigned for for this. The Ainu are an indigenous people from the island of Hokkaido and islands between Japan and Russia. Their number is around 25,000, but people say there are around 200,000. Many Ainu have been absorbed into Japanese . They have little of their .

Japan Today wrote about the Ainu's . It said they, "have suffered the of a policy of forced assimilation, and while has [lessened] , income and education gaps with the of Japan persist". Japan said it wants to, "protect the and dignity of the Ainu...to realize a vibrant ". An Ainu spokesman said: "It feels like we woke up...from a deep sleep...We think is the first step."

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