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Upopoy Ainu park attracts 200,000 in first 6 months


Upopoy Ainu park attracts 200,000 in first 6 months
The Japan News
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Visitors are seen at the Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park in Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Wednesday.Japan News/Yomiuri photo.
SHIRAOI, Japan - The Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park has attracted a total of 198,485 visitors in the six months since its opening in mid-July, the operator said Wednesday.
Although the initial target had been set at 1 million visitors per year, the Foundation for Ainu Culture, which operates the facility, said at a press conference that [the figure] is considered to be good as the number of visitors has been limited due to the coronavirus crisis. ....

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Japan's Indigenous Ainu community don't want a theme park – they want their rights


Japan’s Indigenous Ainu community don’t want a theme park – they want their rights
Fumio Kimura, in Biratori, next to the place where the remains of 34 Ainu have just been returned.
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10 December 2020
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Fumio Kimura, in Biratori, next to the place where the remains of 34 Ainu have just been returned.
(Carmen Grau
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The brightly lit signs on the Hokkaido motorway in northern Japan do not inform the driver about the traffic. They are, rather, advertising Upopoy, a new tourist complex, and the Ainu National Museum. “Let’s sing together for ethnic harmony” is the motto the Japanese government has stamped on the 20-billion-yen project (€164 million, US$192 million) to revive the culture of the Ainu people, one of the archipelago’s minorities. The project showcases the heritage of the Indigenous people originally inhabiting the islands of Hokkaido, Kuril and Sakhalin. Young Ainu women dance to the tune of tra ....

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