The site is contemporaneous with the medieval Japanese to the south, who had been forging a nation-state for several centuries. The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of ...

After centuries of forced assimilation, Japan’s indigenous Ainu population, language and culture are emerging once more thanks to anime, the country’s thriving sub-cultures and YouTube.

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 ...

She tells SBS Japanese that Ainu culture beginning ... “Many of us forgot our own culture and language. In terms of native speakers of the Ainu language, we have only a few people left.” ...

SAPPORO--Protesters denounced as hate speech an event here that claims the Ainu ... and Native Americans in the United States. It said the Jomon people, who are the ancestors of Japanese, lived ...

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 ...

The compilation, first published in 1923, contains 13 mythological stories called "yukar" that belong to Japan's indigenous Ainu culture. They were transcribed by Chiri when she was a teenager.

A new national museum is putting the spotlight on Japan’s Ainu indigenous people. Upopoy, a sprawling complex also known as the Symbolic Space for Ethnic Harmony, opened in the northernmost ...

The Ainu, an Indigenous group in Japan, come from the northern part of the country and were subjected to violent policies of assimilation, displacement and forced labour in the 20th century.

and Ainu culture could no longer serve as a living model of Jomon lifeways. We now believe a closer analogue, in fact, is the agricultural ancestors of the Japanese - an admittedly highly ...