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A woman walks with two children down an alley in the old city of Lhasa, during a government-organized tour of the Tibet Autonomous Region in October 2020. © Reuters

KENJI KAWASE

May 29, 2025 10:15 JST

TOKYO -- An activist group that exposed the proliferation of what it calls China's "colonial boarding schools" in Tibet four years ago has published new findings, documenting how they erode the Tibetan language, culture and identity.