Past Injustice with regard to Ainu and Other Indigenous Peoples' Property Rights and Reparations in the Multicultural Age

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25590022
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: New fields of law
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: Yoshida Kunihiko 北海道大学, 法学(政治学)研究科(研究院), 教授 (00143347)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): INOUE Katsuo 北海道大学, 名誉教授 (90044726) ; TSUJI Yasuo 北海道大学, 大学院公共政策学連携研究部, 教授 (20197685)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 補償 / 先住民族 / アイヌ民族 / 土地征服 / 遺骨返還 / 歴史的不正義 / 国連宣言 / 人権蹂躙

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Past injustice such as conquest of lands, slave labor, and some other basic human right infringements, is the core issue of histories of the Ainu people and all the indigenous peoples across the world. Thus, the civil law approach, i.e., the reparations approach (tort law approach in its broader sense) is indispensable. However, the present Ainu policy by the Japanese government still avoids reparations on purpose and the situation is far behind the goal of historical reconciliation.
Compared to lots of international discussions on other reparations cases including holocaust, apartheid, slavery, slave labor and comfort women(sex slave) etc.,the better alternative solutions for indigenous people, which fit with UN Declaration, have been suggested in this research project.

Free Research Field

民法、国際人権法、批判人種法学