🇯🇵Does Japan have Indigenous and Colonial Memory?

Not observed here

Japan recognised an indigenous people and never gave it a date. On 6 June 2008 both houses of the Diet unanimously adopted the Resolution Calling for the Ainu to be Recognised as an Indigenous People (169th Diet, Resolution No. 1). The text gives its reasons: the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples had been adopted the previous September with Japan voting in favour, the G8 summit that July was to be held in Hokkaido, "the land where the Ainu people were first settled", and the historical fact that during the country's modernisation many Ainu, legally equal citizens, were discriminated against and driven into poverty had to be faced squarely. The 2019 Act on Promoting Measures for the Realisation of a Society in Which the Pride of the Ainu People is Respected (Act No. 16 of 2019, promulgated 26 April) states in Article 1 that the Ainu are "the indigenous people of the northern part of the Japanese archipelago, particularly Hokkaido", and Article 4 forbids anyone from discriminating against them on the ground of being Ainu. The same act creates the Symbolic Space for Ethnic Harmony at Shiraoi in Hokkaido — a national centre containing the National Ainu Museum, entrusted by the ministers of land and of education to a designated corporation — and lets municipalities draw up local Ainu policy plans for the Prime Minister to certify. A resolution, a statute, a national institution, a budget and a planning mechanism: everything except a day.