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I've been listening to the abridged book-on-CD version of "Flags of Our Fathers", and had to stifle a gag regarding the statement that the planting of the Flag on Iwo Jima represented the first foreign conquest of Japanese homeland in 4000 years. The Japanese as such are descended from immigrants who entered kinda sudden like less than 3000 years ago. There's a repression of any data in support of an early human presence on the island, and that is also political in origin.The Meiji government in Tokyo declared the Ainu language illegal, forced them to adopt Japanese names, redistributed their land to mainland settlers and forced them to labour in the fishing industry... The Ainu are one of Japan's most marginalised groups. Government estimates put the number of people with half or more Ainu ancestry at around 50,000. The century-long repression of the Ainu has all but rendered their dialect extinct... Ainu men preferring full beards and long hair and women tattoo around their mouths for decoration.Thanks Blam. |
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