Unseen Japan: Ainu Group Demands Return of 279 Remains Held by Japan’s Government. “On May 8, 2026, an Indigenous Ainu group from Hokkaido filed Japan’s first lawsuit of its kind, demanding that the national government return 279 ancestral skeletal remains to their descendants. The remains in question are stored at the state-run Upopoy Memorial Site, located just outside Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park.”
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