Ethnic Mongolians in Tokyo hold anti-China protests against new education policy

Sep 05, 2020

Tokyo (Japan), Sept 05 (ANI): Ethnic Mongolians living in Japan protested in front of the Chinese embassy in Tokyo on September 05. Protestors opposed a policy to push Mandarin-language education in inner Mongolia, an autonomous region in northern China. Some 15-20 people joined the protest to raise their concern. Beijing’s new education policy also sparked widespread unrest among the country’s ethnic Mongols. People were anxious as they saw it as a move to erase their culture. They call it an attempt to phase out local history, literature and ethnic textbooks. Parents in Inner Mongolia are...