Wajin

as well as increased wealth and military power, social pressures that aimed to transform livelihoods and lifestyles mounted.

As a result of development policies that favoured Waijin, the situation of the Ainu worsened, even to the point where they did not have enough food.

Although agriculture was encouraged, in many cases it was difficult to change lifestyles overnight.

These were like nomadic trade-based people.

But, I mean, it is grim.

There was a point in the – I think I have a figure here – In the 1980s, it's estimated there were fewer than 100 native Ainu speakers with only 15 using the language daily.

The Japanese really from the Waijin, as they would say, from like the, you know, around the period of this game, basically until the fucking 1980s, kind of completely worked to erase Ainu culture to the extent that experts are fairly sure that Many people probably share DNA, you know, or maybe majority I knew, but have no idea themselves kind of in Japan.

So incorporated were they into society.