Linguicide

Both Soviet and post-Soviet Russia and both Imperial and post-Imperial Japan used refusal to admit census categories to suppress two language groups: Hokaido-Kurile-Sakhaline and Okinawa-Ryukyu languages.

The fate of two languages within Japanese territory now appears sealed unless UNESCO, UNICEF and others intervene.

Japan began with invasions and then moved to disgusting practices of humiliation that surpass what Saskatchewan did and what was done in Wales.

But who will speak up on the world scene when mere island ownership is in question ?

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