Sunday, July 11, 2021

Ainu museum in Japan

The Ainu are an indigenous people in northern Japan. A new museum has opened, to coincide with the Tokyo Olympics. It looks nice, but critics say there is no mention of the Ainu's plight or their treatment by the dominant Japanese population.

I met a couple of Ainu in California in the 1990s, when they came to support the Sinkyone people of the Lost Coast. Up until then, I had no idea they existed.

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