NHK1 年
Ainu work to build a sense of community in urban Japan
Shimada was born into an Ainu family in Hokkaido. At 20, she moved to Kawasaki, a city between Yokohama and Tokyo, to work for an electronics manufacturer. Shimada Akemi at age 18. Shimada recalls ...
The Harvard Crimson4 年
Learn Ainu, an Indigenous language from Japan, with Drops
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 ...
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3 年
Nippon TV chief apologizes to Ainu people over comedian’s slur
apologized for a program in which a comedian used a derogatory word referring to Japan's indigenous Ainu ethnic minority of Hokkaido. Yoshinobu Kosugi offered an apology at a regular general ...
NHK6 个月
Ainu Cultural Advocate - Monbetsu Atsushi
And I hope that will also bring a return for traditional Ainu culture.
朝日新聞社1 年
Ainu woman fights Sugita’s discriminatory remarks
An Ainu woman is no longer remaining silent but speaking out against a lawmaker’s continued discriminatory remarks toward the Ainu indigenous people, which have been officially recognized as hum ...
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
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.