Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
On January 21, 2012, the Ainu Party (アイヌ民族党, Ainu minzoku tō) was founded [175] after a group of Ainu activists in Hokkaidō announced the formation of a political party for the Ainu on October 30, 2011. The Ainu Association of Hokkaidō reported that Kayano Shiro, the son of the former Ainu leader Kayano Shigeru, would head the party.
Ainu culture is the culture of the Ainu people, from around the 13th century (late Kamakura period) to the present. Today, most Ainu people live a life superficially ...
Ainu people, an East Asian ethnic group of Japan and the Russian Far East Ainu languages, a family of languages Ainu language of Hokkaido; Kuril Ainu language, extinct language of the Kuril Islands; Sakhalin Ainu language, extinct language from the island of Sakhalin; Ainu music; Ainu cuisine; Ainu (Middle-earth), spirit in J. R. R. Tolkien's ...
The law was repealed in 1997 and replaced by the Ainu Cultural Promotion Act (CPA). [3] [4] Created under the pretense of protecting the Ainu people, organizations such as the Ainu Association of Hokkaido argue that the law served to confiscate Ainu land and destroy their traditional culture. [5]
Ainu (アイヌ イタㇰ, aynu itak), or more precisely Hokkaido Ainu (Japanese: 北海道アイヌ語), is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. It is a member of the Ainu language family, itself considered a language family isolate with no academic consensus of origin.
The Ainu languages (/ ˈ aɪ n uː / EYE-noo), [1] sometimes known as Ainuic, are a small language family, often regarded as a language isolate, historically spoken by the Ainu people of northern Japan and neighboring islands, as well as mainland, including previously southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula.
Ainu cuisine is the cuisine of the ethnic Ainu in Japan and Russia. The cuisine differs markedly from that of the majority Yamato people of Japan . Raw meat like sashimi , for example, is rarely served in Ainu cuisine, which instead uses methods such as boiling , roasting and curing to prepare meat.
The Ainu emphasize that they are the original inhabitants of the Kurile islands and that both the Japanese and Russians were invaders. [11] In 2004, the small Ainu community living in Kamchatka Krai wrote to Vladimir Putin, urging him to reconsider any move to return the Southern Kurile islands to Japan. They criticized the Japanese, the ...