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 also refusing to send their children to school in defiance of the new policy.
