NHK1 年
Ainu work to build a sense of community in urban Japan
The Ainu, an indigenous people predominantly living in northern Japan, have a distinct language and rich cultural traditions. Although Hokkaido has the largest Ainu population, thousands also live ...
NHK1 年
Celebrating Ainu culture
The Ainu Measures Promotion Act, which came into force last year, is the first legal recognition of the Ainu as an indigenous people from the northern part of the Japanese archipelago, mainly ...
The Harvard Crimson4 年
Learn Ainu, an Indigenous language from Japan, with Drops
Historically, it’s the language of the Ainu people, an Indigenous community on the island of Hokkaido in Japan. In 1972, only 14 people could speak Ainu well enough to teach it. Today ...
PBS13 年
Origins of the Ainu
The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of northeastern Japan, occupied the site. Many archeologists consider the Ainu to be the last living descendants of the Jomon ...
朝日新聞社1 年
ASDF accused of appropriating Ainu culture with new logo
The Air Self-Defense Force is facing pressure to jettison its new aircraft logo amid criticisms from Ainu people indigenous to Hokkaido that it appropriates their culture. One Ainu group is ...
standardmedia.co.ke5 年
Japan to recognise indigenous Ainu people for first time
Japan's government introduced a bill Friday to recognise the country's ethnic Ainu minority as an "indigenous" people for the first time, after decades of discrimination against the group.
朝日新聞社4 年
EDITORIAL: Visit the new Ainu museum for insight into their culture, history
Upopoy, an Ainu word meaning “singing together in a large group,” is the nickname of a new facility themed on the culture and history of the Ainu, an indigenous people of northern parts of ...
Moviefone3 年
Ainu Indigenous People of Japan
The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan Hokkaido the northern island of Japan was previously called Ainumosir or land of the Ainu Ainu traditions are facing a critical situation the latest ...
culture.pl1 年
Bronisław Piłsudski – Recording the Ainu
He is exiled to Sakhalin as punishment for his involvement in a plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander III of Russia. While on the island, he creates a transcript of the language of its indigenous ...
SBS5 年
‘Times have changed’: Pop culture powers revival of Japan’s indigenous Ainu culture
She is passionately proud of her Ainu ancestry and culture, teaching the long dormant language to a new wave of people curious about the Ainu. She tells SBS Japanese that Ainu culture beginning to ...
Tokyo: ‘Ainu Puri' Director Takeshi Fukunaga On Raising Awareness of the Ainu People
He was there with a tiny crew to shoot a bear ritual of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan's northernmost islands that was ...