Gap Fill - Ainu - Level 5

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Japan has introduced a to recognize the country's ethnic Ainu as an "indigenous" people for the first . This follows of campaigning by Ainu people. The Ainu are an people originating on Japan's island of Hokkaido and islands between Japan and Russia. Their number today is around 25,000, but many people say a more accurate is 200,000. Many Ainu have been completely absorbed into Japanese . They have little of their ancestry, history, traditions and culture.

Japan Today wrote about the the Ainu faced. It said: "The Ainu people...have suffered the of a policy of forced , and while discrimination has receded , income and education gaps with the rest of Japan persist." Japan's government said: "It is to protect the honor and dignity of the Ainu people and to hand those down to the next to realize a vibrant ." An Ainu spokesman said: "It feels like we woke up from a truly deep sleep....It will lead to building a society where we [live] together. We think this is the first ."

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