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The Sapporo Ainu Culture Promotion Center (札幌市アイヌ文化交流センター, Sapporo-shi Ainu Bunka Kōryū Sentā), also known as Sapporo Pirka Kotan (サッポロピㇼカコタン) [2] or "Beautiful Village", [1] opened in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, in 2003. [1]
The National Ainu Museum (国立アイヌ民族博物館, Kokuritsu Ainu Minzoku Hakubutsukan) is a museum located in Shiraoi, Hokkaidō, Japan. It is situated within the grounds of Upopoy (ウポポイ), a park complex that serves as a "symbolic space for ethnic harmony". [ 1 ]
The term "Ainu culture" has two meanings. One is an anthropological perspective, referring to the cultural forms held by the Ainu people as an ethnic group, which includes both the culture held or created by the modern Ainu and the culture of their ancestors.
The Ainu Association of Hokkaido (北海道アイヌ協会, Hokkaidō Ainu Kyōkai) is an umbrella group of which most Hokkaidō Ainu and some other Ainu are members. . Originally controlled by the government with the intention of speeding Ainu assimilation and integration into the Japanese nation state, it now operates independently of the government and is run exclusive
Shiretoko's listing as Natural Heritage was seen by the Indigenous Ainu as contradicting the long history of Ainu settlement in the park area. [2] The Shiretoko Park Nature Center is in Shari. It serves as the visitor center and includes a movie about the park, a restaurant, and a gift shop.
The Ainu are an indigenous ethnic group who reside in northern Japan and southeastern Russia, including Hokkaido and the Tōhoku region of Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Khabarovsk Krai.
Kayano Shigeru (1926–2006) started collecting tools and other items used in traditional Ainu daily life in 1952. In 1972 the Nibutani Ainu Bunka Shiryōkan (二風谷アイヌ文化資料館) opened in the building that now serves as the Kayano Shigeru Nibutani Ainu Museum, with some two thousand objects he had acquired.
Biratori (平取町, Biratori-chō) (Ainu: ピラ・ウトゥル, romanized: pira-utur [1]) is a town located in Hidaka Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. The name of the town means 'between the rocky cliffs' in the Ainu language. [2] As of October 2020, the town has an estimated population of 4,776 and a density of 6.4 persons per km 2.