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The State party should ensure the adequate funding of Korean language schools by
increasing State subsidies and applying the same fiscal benefits to donors of Korean
schools as to donors of other private schools, and recognize diplomas from Korean
schools as direct university entrance qualifications.
32. The Committee notes with concern that the State party has not officially recognized the
Ainu and the Ryukyu/Okinawa as indigenous peoples entitled to special rights and protection
(art. 27).
The State party should expressly recognize the Ainu and Ryukyu/Okinawa as
indigenous peoples in domestic legislation, adopt special measures to protect, preserve
and promote their cultural heritage and traditional way of life, and recognize their
land rights. It should also provide adequate opportunities for Ainu and
Ryukyu/Okinawa children to receive instruction in or of their language and about
their culture, and include education on Ainu and Ryukyu/Okinawa culture and
history in the regular curriculum.
33. The Committee sets 29 October 2011 as the date for the submission of the sixth periodic
report of Japan. It requests that the State party’s fifth periodic report and the present concluding
observations be published and widely disseminated in Japanese and, to the extent possible, in
national minority languages to the general public, as well as to the judicial, legislative and
administrative authorities. It also requests that the sixth periodic report be made available to civil
society and to non-governmental organizations operating in the State party.
34. In accordance with rule 71, paragraph 5, of the Committee’s rules of procedure, the State
party should submit within a year information on the follow-up given to the Committee’s
recommendations in paragraphs 17, 18, 19 and 21 above. The Committee requests the State party
to include in its next periodic report information on its remaining recommendations and on the
implementation of the Covenant as a whole.
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