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Restore rights of Ainu indigenous people, urges Japanese pastor

The Japanese government and Christians should support the rights of the Ainu indigenous people in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, the Rev. Tadao Miura, the director of the Ainu People Information Centre of the United Church of Christ in Japan, has said, reports Ecumenical News International. "God created each one of us as unique beings. So, we should care for each other," Miura said in a lecture on 11 February at the denomination's Ninomiya Church in Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo. He said there was a need for the Ainu people to be able to leave behind the " colonialism" to which they were subjected when Russia and Japan were competing for the area where they now live.

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