The Ainu Outcasts of Japan C

In the mounting jury of world conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on ever greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and the millions of people who live around this greatest field. The drama of the people whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific War.

Here is another public service, the tale of the war in the Pacific, and its meaning to us and to the generations to come. The I-New, outcast of Japan. This is the battle dance of the Ainu, the fight hairy aborigines who occupied the island of Japan before the Japanese came, who resisted the Japanese for 600 years, and the last remnants

of whose race lived today in misery on the forbidding, hard-bitten island of Hokkaido and in its vicinity. This is the battle dance of the Ainu, but the Ainu have long since stopped fighting. Once they were fighting race, but they have long been subjugated by the Japanese.

hundreds of years of Japanese suppression. They have degenerated until today they live in squalor and disease and wait only to perish from the earth. The dance is over. It is one of the last vestiges of festivals and ceremonies that once had vital meaning to the Ainu. The dances have gone and seated alone before the shrine is cheap open about two. He is more

than 80 years old. His hair and beard are long and white and curly. He wears a black robe made of hair and animal skin and elm bark. If Chikotnubaksu could make himself understood, he would say, the Japanese are waiting for us to die. They came here to our islands 2000 years ago. My