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On January 21, 2012, the Ainu Party (アイヌ民族党, Ainu minzoku tō) was founded [176] 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 similar to that of mainstream Japanese people, partly due to cultural assimilation.
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 ...
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The Ainu Language: The Morphology and Syntax of the Shizunai Dialect. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. ISBN 87-7288-020-1. Refsing, Kirsten (1996). Early European Writings on the Ainu Language. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7007-0400-2. Shibatani, Masayoshi (1990). The Languages of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-36918-5.
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.
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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.