A court in Japan dismissed a bid by Ainu Indigenous people to reclaim rights over river fishing for salmon, an official said Thursday.
It was the first court decision on Indigenous rights related to Ainu people, who traditionally lived in what is now northern Japan as well as in territory now part of Russia.
Ainu history includes decades of discrimination and forced assimilation, and Japan did not legally recognize them as Indigenous people until 2019.
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