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Ohaw, traditional Ainu soup. 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.
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 similar to that of mainstream Japanese people, partly due to cultural assimilation. However, while some people conceal or downplay their Ainu identity, Ainu culture is still ...
The Ainu culture developed from the 13th century (late Kamakura period) to the present day. While most Ainu in Japan now live outwardly similar lives to the Wajin (ethnic Japanese) due to assimilation policies, many still maintain their Ainu identity and respect for traditional Ainu ways, known as "Ainu puri".
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 September 2016, the town has an estimated population of 5,305 and a density of 7.1 persons per km 2.
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.
Nibutani (Japanese: 二風谷), or Niptani (Ainu: ニㇷ゚タニ), is a district in the town of Biratori in Hokkaidō, Japan. It was once known as Pipaushi, [1] [2] which means "a place rich in shells." [3] The population as of 2010 was 395 people. A particularly large proportion of the population of the district is of the indigenous Ainu ...
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Under the pretense of alleviating Ainu poverty, the legislation created individual land grants and promoted the adoption of Japanese agricultural practices over hunting. [7] The legislation has been criticized as a means by which the Imperial government forcibly confiscated Ainu lands and impeded traditional Ainu culture. [ 8 ]