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• Ainu , aborigines of Japan who may be descended from a Caucasoid people who once lived in N Asia. More powerful invaders from the Asian mainland gradually forced the Ainu to retreat to the northern islands of Japan and Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in what is now the Russian Far East; today, they reside mainly on Hokkaido. ... The Ainu have attracted the attention of tourists, and some now make a living by selling reproductions of their cultural artifacts. ... Contact with the Japanese has led also to culture change and assimilation, which the Ainu have resisted in the past, with decreasing success. Their religion is highly animistic and centers on a bear cult; a captive bear is sacrificed at an annual winter feast and his spirit, thus released, is believed to guard the Ainu settlements.
• Munro, Ainu Creed and Cult (1963); I. Hilger, Together with the Ainu (1971).
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• REST FOR THE WEARY: A pair of elders take a break from a traditional Ainu ceremony honoring the dead.
• Despite years of prejudice, Japan's aboriginal Ainu are beginning to reclaim their unique identity .
• The ainu of japan have long been almost invisible in a society that likes to consider itself racially homogenous. ... Her school textbooks said little about the Ainu, the aboriginal people of Hokkaido, or Japan's other minorities—Koreans, Chinese and Okinawans. ... So when Hasegawa's father told her at the age of 18 that she was Ainu, it turned her world upside down. "I had grown up thinking there was only one race in Japan," says Hasegawa, now 23, who works in Tokyo at Japan's only Ainu restaurant. "I hadn't even heard of the Ainu. ...
• Hasegawa's parents had feared their daughter would face bullying and discrimination as an Ainu. Physically indistinguishable from Japanese, many Ainu—including Hasegawa's eight brothers—still prefer to hide their ethnic identity. But Hasegawa herself is one of a small but growing number of Ainu who are learning about their ethnicity with new pride. Younger Ainu are enrolling in language classes to learn traditional songs and folk tales. Ainu communities are reviving old ceremonies to honor sacred animals like salmon and bear. While all Ainu use Japanese names, some have started adopting traditional Ainu first names.
• Ainu activists have also begun to make their voices heard. One group is suing the Hokkaido prefectural government in a Sapporo court, accusing it of mismanaging Ainu land for the past century. Hasegawa is part of another group fighting for recognition of the Ainu's rights as an indigenous people through the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva. The Ainu have started to forge bonds with indigenous groups in the United States and other countries. ... "To be Ainu used to be a shameful thing," says Tatsue Sato, chairman of the Ainu rights group Rera no Kai, or Wind Society. "Now there are young people coming forward who are saying 'I'm proud to be Ainu. ...

• The Ainu, a distinctively different ethnic group who inhabited Japan long before the formation of the Yamato (4) Japanese who came to dominate the archipelago, are still to be found, living mainly in Hokkaido and struggling to maintain their distinctive and long-suppressed culture. ...
• 7 The Ainu Type seven covers people who hold Japanese nationality, but are of different ethnic lineage and have internalized an independent culture. Part of Japan's Ainu ethnic minority would fit in this category. Only a part, because the fact is that very few Ainu can still speak the Ainu language these days. This is the outcome of Japanese government policy from the Meiji era (1868-1912) onwards, under which the Ainu homeland, Ainu-Moshiri (13) was renamed "Hokkaido" and subjected to intense programs of colonialism and assimilation. Even so, Ainu are clearly categorized as "non-Japanese" by most mainstream Japanese today. This is the main reason why many Ainu strive desperately to conceal their Ainu identity, even while others attempt to assert aboriginal rights through such organizations as the Utari Association. ...
• The ethnic Koreans of type six and the Ainu of type seven both tend to be classified as "non-Japanese. ...
• " As a result the report was roundly criticized in the United Nations Human Rights Committee, by members pointing out that it ignored the existence of Korean residents, Ainu, Okinawans, and Burakumin. ...
• (13) In the Ainu language, Ainu simply means "people," while Moshiri means "peaceful land. " Hence Ainu-Moshiri , the term used for the Ainu homelands, literally means "the peaceful land where the people live. ...
• (14) Utari is an Ainu word meaning "comrade," applied only to fellow Ainu. The Utari Association's efforts brought a partial victory on May 9, 1997, when the 1899 Law on the Protection of Former Indigenous People of Hokkaido ( Hokkaido Kyu-Dojin Hogo Ho) was finally abolished and replaced with a new law that established a government foundation for the promotion of Ainu culture. The old law was designed to legitimate the Japanese invasion of Ainu-Moshiri, confining the Ainu to "agricultural reservations" and effectively outlawing their traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle. ...
• The new law drops the discriminatory word dojin (an insulting term for an indigenous person) but refrains from using the more neutral term senju minzoku (aboriginal people), since the wording literally means "people who lived somewhere before" and could imply a Japanese government responsibility to recognize Ainu land rights. Inadequate though the new law is, however, it at least holds out some hope for a revival of the Ainu-puri (Ainu lifestyle) and the Ainu language. ...

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• "I think despite our diverse races and nationalities language has to be the most important aspect of any culture" Shigeru Kayano, Ainu, Japan.
• Shigeru Kayano feels honored to be among a group of just 15 families who speak Tsishima - a dialect of the Ainu indigenous minority of Japan. "My mother used to say to be Ainu is to bring pride to your people," says Shigeru.
• While there has never been a written Ainu language, once there were at least 19 dialects. ...
• With many of the younger generation choosing to speak Japanese due to the language's greater marketability, the Ainu language and its storytelling tradition is gradually dying. ...
• The Ainu have lived in Japan since the beginning of history but arec now confined to the northern island of Hokkaido. ...
• Ainu men were encouraged to shave their beards and tie their hair, and the women's traditional practice of applying blue facial tattoos was banned. Laws were passed limiting the Ainu rights to natural resources and even their annual catch of ceremonial salmon.
• Shigeru runs a language school and recently compiled a collection of Ainu folktales. ...
• We Ainu believe everything in nature has meaning and purpose," says Shigeru. ...
• Nature is a dominant theme in Ainu culture, with the natural beauty of Hokkaido, with its dramatic coastline, snow capped mountains and wide green valleys, providing the perfect setting and inspiration. ...

• Besides these wide-ranging qualitative overviews, there are a few case studies of particular languages: Knut Bergsland on Aleut and Sámi at opposite extremities of the Russian land mass, Suwilai Premsrirat on So (Thavung) in Thailand, Harumi Sawai and Osami Okuda on Ainu, Japan’s own endangered language isolate. ...
• Saiwai gives an upbeat account of prospects for the Ainu language, which is only partly offset by Okuda’s very Japanese unease, on whether the language should be revitalized only by preservation of its role in traditional ritual and narrative, or should be taught for conversational fluency. The theme of Saiwai is that Ainu had been depressed by constant reiteration that it was the obsolescent language of a “dying race” of “former aborigines”. ... She points out, however, that these classes are still at the weekly level, and there is yet to be created “a comfortable social environment for Ainu speakers”. ...
• He follows this advice up with a heartening string of stories where the tide seems to be turning: Ainu; Australian languages such as Djabugay brought back from extinction; Maori language nests, Tahitian increasingly present in the media; Hawaiian, Mohawk and Seneca in the US, Faeroese, Greenlandic Eskimo recovering from Danish domination; Yakut, Yukagir, Evenki, Nenets, Khanty across Siberia; even Ejnu, a hybrid of Turkic Uighur structure but Persian lexicon in Chinese Xinjiang, a lasting human trace of the Silk Road. ...

• a major exhibition to explore the ancient origin of the Ainu,.
• 20th century Ainu cultural rebirth.

• The Ainu, western Asian nomads brought tattooing to Japan when they crossed over to the Japanese islands, for them tattoos firmly belong to the realm of religion and magic. ...
• Tattooing travelled to America either via the large Polynesian migration, or across the northern land/ice bridge with Siberian tribes who learned tattooing from the Ainu. ...
• The Ainu people of western Asia used tattooing to show social status. ... The Ainu are noted for introducing tattoos to Japan where it developed into a religious and ceremonial rite. ... Even the isolated tribes in Alaska practiced tattooing, their style indicating it was learned from the Ainu. ...

• Ainu mouth tattoo, Sute Orita carries the symbolic .

• If he is caucasian, or more accurately, some ancestral prototype, what other world populations is he related to? Is he related to the mysterious Ainu people, an isolated caucasian group who live in northern Japan? For years, the Arctic Studies Center has been collaborating with scientists and native groups to develop a new understanding of the cultures along the North Pacific Rim. Recently, their work with Japanese scientists and Ainu scholars (link to Ainu page) has begun to introduce this little known group to the public. ...

• Harukor: An Ainu Woman's Tale (Voices from Asia).
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