SAPPORO, Japan: When Yuko Honda, a professor at Japan's Sapporo University, tried to start a scholarship for Ainu Indigenous students and a club to celebrate their culture, she ran into fierce resistance.
"We faced a terrible backlash," Honda, a professor of cultural studies at the university in the northern Hokkaido region, told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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