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    12 days ago

    The Ainu people are indigenous to Northern Japan and southeast Russia, in Japan they lived a lot on the northern island of Hokkaido (where the Sinnoh region was based off of for any Pokemon fans) and has faced forced assimilation and other colonial shit by the Yamato Japanese settlers.

    Much more southern is Ryukyu (more likely you’ve heard this called Okinawa), which the Ryukyuans are indigenous to. To this day, there are still protests for Ryukyu’s independence where a wikipedia page on the matter can be found here.