Shiro Kayano, who works in Tokyo's advertising sector, was once just like the millions of salarymen who populate Japan's neon-lit cities. But a chance visit to a Canadian indigenous household two decades ago set the now 54-year-old on a different path: seeking political power for the Ainu people, a tiny ethnic minority in the nation of 127 million. Kayano's ambitious bid to win 10 out of 242 seats in the upper house for the newly created Ainu Party in ...Sunday, 19 August 2012
Political Power a Realistic Goal for Japan's Indigenous People
Shiro Kayano, who works in Tokyo's advertising sector, was once just like the millions of salarymen who populate Japan's neon-lit cities. But a chance visit to a Canadian indigenous household two decades ago set the now 54-year-old on a different path: seeking political power for the Ainu people, a tiny ethnic minority in the nation of 127 million. Kayano's ambitious bid to win 10 out of 242 seats in the upper house for the newly created Ainu Party in ...
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