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  2. Ainu people - Wikipedia

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    In the 2006 video game Ōkami, the Oina people, who inhabit the northern land of Kamui, are heavily inspired by the Ainu. The manga and anime series Golden Kamuy has an Ainu girl, Asirpa, as one of the protagonists and features many aspects of Ainu culture. [216] The character Fredzilla from Big Hero 6 is of Ainu descent.

  3. Emishi - Wikipedia

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    There is some evidence that some of the Emishi spoke a divergent Japonic language, most likely the ancient "Zūzū dialect" (the ancestor of Tōhoku dialect) and are a different ethnic group from the Ainu and early Yamato. These were likely ethnic Japanese, who resisted the Yamato dynasty's consolidation of political power in early Japan and ...

  4. Ethnic groups of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Ainu people (also Aynu) are an indigenous people native to Hokkaido and northeastern Honshu, as well as the nearby Russian Sakhalin and Kuril Islands (both formerly part of the Japanese Empire), and Kamchatka Peninsula. They possess a language distinct from modern Japanese.

  5. Yamato people - Wikipedia

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    The Wajin (also known as Wa or Wō) or Yamato were the names early China used to refer to an ethnic group living in Japan around the time of the Three Kingdoms period.Ancient and medieval East Asian scribes regularly wrote Wa or Yamato with one and the same Chinese character 倭, which translated to "dwarf", until the 8th century, when the Japanese found fault with it, replacing it with 和 ...

  6. Ryukyuans - Wikipedia

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    This rare haplogroup was detected only in Yamato Japanese, Koreans, and Tibetans, with the highest frequency and diversity in Tibet. [45] [43] Phylogenetic tree of Mainland Japanese, Ryukyuan (Ryukyuan), Ainu (Ainu) and other Asian ethnic groups [32] [46]

  7. Golden Kamuy - Wikipedia

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    The anime was announced in July 2017 in Weekly Young Jump, [15] and aired for twelve episodes from April 9 to June 25, 2018, on Tokyo MX, ytv, STV, and BS11. [ 14 ] [ 16 ] Golden Dōga Gekijō , a series of 25-second animated shorts based on extras included in the Golden Kamuy manga volumes and Weekly Young Jump , was directed by Kenshirō ...

  8. Shakushain's revolt - Wikipedia

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    The war began as a fight for resources between Shakushain's people and a rival Ainu clan in the Shibuchari River (Shizunai River) basin of what is now Shinhidaka, Hokkaidō. The war developed into a last try by the Ainu to keep their political independence and regain control over the terms of their trade relations with the Yamato people.

  9. Ethnic nationalism in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Flag of Ainu people. "Ainu nationalism" (Japanese: アイヌ民族主義 or アイヌナショナリズム) is a means of asserting Ainu rights over ancestral land and today has been adopted as the favored term for Hokkaido. [9] Ainu Party (アイヌ民族党, lit. "Ethnic Ainu Party" or "Ainu Nationals Party") is the political party that ...