Atsushi Monbetsu belongs to the Ainu Indigenous group that traditionally lived in what is now northern Japan, as well as territory now in Russia. But now, like a growing number of younger people from Indigenous communities in Japan, he has reclaimed his identity and some of the traditional practices he considers his birthright.

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