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 ...
An invaluable record of Ainu culture is finding an international audience almost 100 years after it was first published. "Ainu Shinyoshu," or "Collection of Ainu Songs of Gods," compiled by author ...
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 ...
After more than a century of forced assimilation, the Ainu are set to be recognized as Indigenous for the first time. Japan’s rapid industrialization to become an economic superpower is ...
Watch the presentation "A New Mobile Life for Endangered Languages" here: Ainu is a language isolate, meaning it isn’t related to any other known language. Historically, it’s the language of ...
The Ainu believe that the world rests on the back of a giant trout, that otters caused human beings to be flawed, and that seeing an owl fly across the face of the moon at night is cause for great ...
The lawsuit calls for Ainu to catch salmon as a commercial activity. Their right to do so, they argue, lies in a declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples adopted by the U.N. General ...
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 ...
SAPPORO -- Twenty-nine percent of Japan's indigenous Ainu people have experienced discrimination, a survey last year by the Hokkaido Prefectural Government has found. The government of the country ...
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 ...
But fears of discrimination remain, and the Ainu language is on the brink of extinction. CNA's Michiyo Ishida files this report from the Ainu homeland of Hokkaido. 02 Sep 2024 08:19pm ...
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.