Because the Ainu had no written language, she used the Roman alphabet to express sounds with Japanese translations attached in parallel. The book was penned at a time when Ainu culture was fast ...

They developed their own distinct language, history and culture, which were quite different from Japanese, and also lived in northern Honshu, Sakhalin and the Kuril islands. The Ainu people hunted ...

In 1972, only 14 people could speak Ainu well enough to teach it. Today, the Japanese government’s official recognition of the Ainu people as Indigenous people of Japan and the placement of ...

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 ...

A survey of some 13,000 Ainu residents in Hokkaido conducted in 2017 by the local government found that there remain disparities between the Ainu and Japanese populations.

It said the Jomon people, who are the ancestors of Japanese, lived in Hokkaido for more than 10,000 years from around 16,000 years ago before the Ainu people. Protesters demanded the organizers ...

teaching the long dormant language to a new wave of people curious about the Ainu. She tells SBS Japanese that Ainu culture beginning to flourish once again, thanks in part to people such as ...