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Hachiya wears a traditional Ainu robe with lipstick drawn around her mouth to recreate traditional tattoos commonly worn by Ainu women.Some Ainu worry the new museum complex is mostly meant to burnish Japan's international standing ahead of the Olympics.
Japan took control of Hokkaido by force in the 19th Century and made it a colony. After opening it to Japanese settlers, it forced the Ainu, which it labelled "former aborigines," to assimilate.Yumeka, a son of Ainu hunter Atsushi Monbetsu, plays Karippekap an Ainu folk game. "Society was not accepting of the Ainu, and it still isn't," said Mai Ishihara, an anthropologist at Hokkaido University. "There are still many people who keep their Ainu identity secret from their children."A hill stands where Japanese forces are believed to have gathered during a fifteenth century battle with indigenous Ainu tribesmen.
In consultations that concluded in early 2018, Ainu representatives asked for legal rights to state-owned land, more funding for teaching Ainu culture and language and an apology from Japan's government.A deer shot by Ainu hunter Atsushi Monbetsu is marked with paint. Ainu hunter Atsushi Monbetsu, 36, sees Tokyo's actions, including the ethnic-harmony park, as "useless." Discrimination as a child made him decide to embrace his heritage and live as a hunter, he said.
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