Realising Ainu indigenous rights: a commentary on Hiroshi Maruyama's ‘Japan's post-war Ainu policy. Why the Japanese Government has not recognised Ainu indigenous rights?’

ABSTRACT This commentary reviews Maruyama's article ‘Japan's post-war Ainu policy: why the Japanese Government has not recognised Ainu indigenous rights?’ (Maruyama 2013a), published in this journal. Maruyama criticises the government for its reluctance to enact a new Ainu law to guarantee...

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Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Nakamura, Naohiro
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2013
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spelling crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247413000417 2024-09-09T20:04:23+00:00 Realising Ainu indigenous rights: a commentary on Hiroshi Maruyama's ‘Japan's post-war Ainu policy. Why the Japanese Government has not recognised Ainu indigenous rights?’ Nakamura, Naohiro 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247413000417 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247413000417 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 50, issue 2, page 209-211 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 journal-article 2013 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247413000417 2024-07-31T04:04:48Z ABSTRACT This commentary reviews Maruyama's article ‘Japan's post-war Ainu policy: why the Japanese Government has not recognised Ainu indigenous rights?’ (Maruyama 2013a), published in this journal. Maruyama criticises the government for its reluctance to enact a new Ainu law to guarantee indigenous rights, even after Japan's ratification of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). However, in actuality, the government is searching for the foundation of new Ainu policies in the existing legal frameworks and trying to guarantee some elements of indigenous rights. Japan's case suggests the possibility of realising indigenous rights without the enactment of a specific law. Article in Journal/Newspaper Polar Record Cambridge University Press Polar Record 50 2 209 211
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