• Blakey [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    16 days ago

    The modern Japanese people aren’t indigenous to Japan - the Ainu are and probably some other groups, plus the Ryukyuan people of Okinawa and the other Ryukyu islands. I don’t know if they’re technically settler-colonial in a Marxist sense, but I assume that’s what the other commenter is talking about

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      16 days ago

      I don’t know if they’re technically settler-colonial in a Marxist sense

      They are specifically in Hokkaido. On mainland Japan, no. It was not too different from any other large scale migration in antiquity.