Hi.
Firstly, the only real source I have for Imperial Japan in
Shadowrun is the
Sixth World Almanac, so apologies in advance if any of this is detailed elsewhere.
What I was wondering is this; in
SR terms, is there any trace of Ainu culture in Hokkaido, or Ryukyuan culture in Okinawa, as of the 2070s; or have they been wholly subsumed by the "standard" set by Neo-Tokyo?
For those who aren't familiar with either culture group, the
Ainu are indigenous to what is now called
Hokkaido, with
local languages wholly unrelated to Japanese; while Okinawa Prefecture (and the southernmost islands of Kagoshima Prefecture) was once ruled by the
Ryukyu Kingdom, whose
inhabitants spoke
a series of languages in the broader Japonic language family (but which have been classified at times as "dialects" of Japanese).
In "our" world, the Ainu and Ryukyuan languages are collectively in trouble in terms of their continued vitality, but there are advocacy groups in their respective territories attempting to promote them with varying degrees of success.
Are things any different in the Sixth World?