SAPPORO The remains of four Ainu indigenous people were returned to Japan on May 8 from Australia where they had been taken for research purposes prior to 1940.
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On Japan’s second-largest island, the traditions of the Indigenous Ainu people are kept alive through craftsmanship, says renowned wood sculptor Toru Kaizawa.
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