The Ainu boast a unique culture and language. Until the 19th century, their main activities were hunting, fishing, gathering plants and farming. They also actively engaged with surrounding regions ...

The Japanese language is notorious for its ambiguity ... that the history of Hokkaido's indigenous people, the Ainu, was about to be rewritten. Since the mid-1970s I had been investigating ...

Increasing numbers of Ainu are also starting to relearn their language, which is linguistically isolated and declared as ...

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 ...

Teru starts recording “Kamui Yukar” one day at the recommendation of an Ainu language researcher who comes from Tokyo. She turns out to have such excellent Japanese translation skills that she ...

The film features scenes of Sachiko Kibata teaching students the Ainu language and helping them rehearse for speech competitions, Reiko Kayano teaching sewing lessons for traditional Ainu clothing, ...

The centerpiece of the complex, the National Ainu Museum, uses the Ainu language, which is in danger of dying out, as the first language and offers a variety of materials that help visitors to ...

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.

This makes those who still speak the Ainu language an extremely rare and special breed. When you go to Towada-Hachimantai you would do yourself a disservice if you didn't enjoy one of the multiple ...

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.