【また朝日か】アイヌ新法を報じる英文記事でまた反日記事

やや旧聞に属する話ですが、アイヌ新法が閣議決定されてマスコミ各社がこれを報じました。

朝日新聞は2月6日付でこの記事をwebサイトに配信しましたが、同日に英語で配信した記事は中身を変えています。

朝日史観とでも呼ぶべきか、日本人が読まないと思って、その内容は反日的なものになっています。

まず、日本語の記事のキャプチャ。

2人の記者の署名記事となっています。

次に、英文記事のキャプチャです。記事の最後に、「This article was compiled from reports by Naoki Matsuyama and Fumiko Yoshigaki.」（この記事は松山尚幹と芳垣文子のリポートを編集したものである）とあるので、前掲の日本語記事が元になっていることがあきらかです。

英文記事は日本語話者ではない人達、非日本人向けなので、背景などの説明を付け加えることは、まあ、分かりますが、これはひどい。

After more than a century of forced assimilation and discrimination that nearly blotted out their culture, the Ainu are finally...

1世紀以上もの強制的同化や差別によってアイヌの文化をほぼ破壊した後、ようやく（先住民として認定されることとなった）

非公式ながら、2020年東京五輪では開会式に1,800人の「アイヌ」が踊ることが決まっているそうです。（小野寺まさる氏談）

この時、海外の中継で、実況がこのような偽りの歴史を語ることは想像に難くないのではないでしょうか。

以下、記事を引用しておきます。

https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASM254H84M25UTFK00L.html
アイヌ新法「先住民族」を明記、国会提出へ　観光振興も
松山尚幹 芳垣文子 2019年2月6日05時00分

　政府は、アイヌ民族を「先住民族」と初めて明記したアイヌ新法案を今国会に提出する。自民党の国土交通部会などの合同会議が５日、法案を了承した。法案は差別の禁止や、観光振興を支援する交付金の創設からなる。政府には、アイヌ文化を観光資源とし、訪日外国人客数の目標達成の一助にする狙いもある。近く閣議決定し、今国会での成立をめざす。

　法案は、アイヌの人々の民族としての誇りが尊重される社会の実現を目的に掲げる。伝統的な漁法への規制の緩和なども盛り込んだ。新たな交付金は２０１９年度予算案で１０億円を計上。アイヌ文化のブランド化推進やコミュニティー活動のためのバス運営への支援を想定する。

　政府は新法により、生活向上のための福祉や文化振興を中心にしたこれまでの施策から、地域や産業の振興、国際交流を見据えた総合的なアイヌ政策へ転換を図るとしている。

　法案の背景には、アイヌ民族をめぐる過去の経緯や、先住民族への配慮を求める国際的な要請の高まりがある。加えて政府が狙うのは、東京五輪・パラリンピックが開催される２０２０年に４千万人達成の目標を掲げる、訪日外国人客へのアピールだ。

　２０年４月には、国立アイヌ民…

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201902060037.html
Bill finally recognizes Ainu as indigenous people of Japan

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 6, 2019 at 14:45 JST

After more than a century of forced assimilation and discrimination that nearly blotted out their culture, the Ainu are finally to be recognized as indigenous under legislation to be submitted to the ordinary Diet session.

A draft bill was approved on Feb. 5 by a joint meeting of entities within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, including its Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Division.

While banning discrimination against the Ainu people, the bill also has provisions to establish new subsidies to promote tourism to the northernmost main island of Hokkaido where Ainu are from.

The government expects the legislation to be enacted during the current session.

The inclusion of wording recognizing the Ainu as indigenous was described as a "step forward" by Shiro Kayano, whose late father, Shigeru, was the first Ainu to serve as Diet member in 1994.

The draft bill states its objective as realizing a society that will respect the pride of the Ainu as an ethnic group. Legal restrictions will be relaxed to allow the Ainu to engage in traditional fishing practices.

A subsidy of 1 billion yen ($9 million) will be proposed in the fiscal 2019 budget to promote the development of Ainu culture as a tourism resource as well as provide support for bus operations to help support Ainu communities.

The present law to promote Ainu culture is focused on culture promotion and welfare measures to improve the daily lives of the Ainu people. The new bill will be an effort to implement a more comprehensive package of measures to promote local communities and industries with a view to also expanding international exchanges.

Factors that prompted the move include Japan's historical treatment of the Ainu and growing demands from the international community to provide adequate recognition of the Ainu as an indigenous people.

It also is intended to help the government achieve its target of foreign tourist numbers to 40 million by 2020 when Tokyo will host the Summer Olympics and Paralympics.

Other governmental promotional efforts include plans to open the National Ainu Museum and Park in Shiraoi, Hokkaido, in April 2020, with a goal of attracting 1 million visitors annually.

When Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga visited Hokkaido in August 2018, he told reporters, "Having the world understand the splendid aspects of Ainu culture will contribute to international goodwill and lead to promotion of tourism."

But for the Ainu people, the bill comes after more than century of discrimination, poverty and fears that their cultural traditions were being erased.

Their native Hokkaido was effectively taken over after the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Not only has the government never recognized the Ainu as indigenous, but a law passed in 1899 rejected Ainu culture and called for steps to assimilate the Ainu into the mainstream population.

It was not until 1997 that the law was abolished and replaced with the current law to promote Ainu culture.

But various surveys show that descendants of Ainu still have it tougher than most.

In 2017, the Hokkaido government conducted a study of 63 municipalities where Ainu were confirmed to be living. One finding was that only 33.3 percent of Ainu went on to university, compared to the overall rate of 45.8 percent for those 63 municipalities. Of the 671 people interviewed for the study, 23.2 percent said they had been discriminated against for being Ainu.

With many choosing to not disclose their Ainu roots, it is not even clear how many have ethnic ties to the Ainu.

(This article was compiled from reports by Naoki Matsuyama and Fumiko Yoshigaki.)

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