New Ainu law neglects the issue of the ancestral remains of indigenous people

This year, the new Ainu law was enacted to replace the 1997 Ainu Culture Promotion and Dissemination of Information Concerning Ainu Traditions Act.
While Japan legally recognized the Ainu as the indigenous people of Japan for a first time, it has never consider for the rights of the Ainu people as international criteria on indigenous people.
In common with the previous law, the new law focuses on mainly traditional and cultural aspect by promoting Ainu industry and tourism, but neglecting to protect the Ainu’s right to self-determination, the collective right to live in freedom, to the lands and resources.

The law has also not regulated the repatriation of the Ainu ancestral remains the Ainu human remains sometimes by committing the ‘grave-robbing’ to aide for the studies.
The issue of the remains’ repatriation has been a major importance for the Ainu people for very long time.

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