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Aiming at Olympic Boom, Japan Builds 'Ethnic Harmony' Tribute to Indigenous
Ainu

Reuters

   TOKYO - On a wooded lake shore in northern Japan, the government is
   building a modernist shrine that has divided the indigenous Ainu
   community whose vanishing culture it was designed to celebrate.

   At a cost so far of $220 million, Japan's "Symbolic Space for Ethnic
   Harmony" is on track to open in time for the 2020 Olympics, part of a
   drive by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to draw millions of foreign visitors
   to Japan and to the northern city of Sapporo, where the Olympic
   marathon will be run.

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