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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.
However, while some people conceal or downplay their Ainu identity, Ainu culture is still practiced among many groups. The Ainu way of life is called Ainupuri in the Ainu language (literally ainu + puri "customs, manners" [1]). The unique Ainu patterns and oral literature have been selected as features of Hokkaido Heritage.
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.
There is only one Ainu kotan still continually inhabited to the present day, the Lake Akan kotan in Kushiro. In 1959, there were still a scattering of Ainu kotans around Lake Akan, before Mitsuko Maeda of the Maeda Ippoen Foundation (an organization that helped in conserving Lake Akan) suggested the remaining Ainu to relocate to the new land purchased by him.
The inclusion of Ainu was adopted also by James Patrie in 1982. [35] [36] The Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic and Korean-Japanese-Ainu groupings were also posited in 2000–2002 by Joseph Greenberg. However, he treated them as independent members of a larger family, which he termed Eurasiatic. [37] The inclusion of Ainu is not widely accepted by ...
An Ainu speaker, recorded in Japan. 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.
On Monday, June 10, Indigenous Hawai’ian midwives took the witness stand in a humble Honolulu courtroom, testifying for the very first time in opposition of Hawai’i’s Midwifery Restriction ...
A kamuy (Ainu: カムィ; Japanese: カムイ, romanized: kamui) is a spiritual or divine being in Ainu mythology, a term denoting a supernatural entity composed of or possessing spiritual energy. The Ainu people have many myths about the kamuy, passed down through oral traditions and rituals.