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  2. Ainu people - Wikipedia

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    Ainu people in front of a traditional building in Shiraoi, Hokkaido. On March 27, 1997, the Sapporo District Court decided a landmark case that, for the first time in Japanese history, recognized the right of the Ainu people to enjoy their distinct culture and traditions.

  3. Category:Ainu people - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Ainu people" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  4. Ainu culture - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Australia returns remains of four Indigenous people to Japan ...

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    Ainu were Indigenous people from the Hokkaido, Sakhalin and Kuril islands, who had their own language and distinctive culture before they were forced to assimilate, according to local reports ...

  6. Matagi - Wikipedia

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    According to Lee and Hasegawa, the Matagi are the historical descendants of Ainu-speaking hunters and fishermen who migrated down from Hokkaido into parts of Honshu. They also contributed several Ainu derived toponyms and loanwords, related to geography and certain forest and water animals which they hunted, to the local Japonic-speaking people ...

  7. Matsumae clan - Wikipedia

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    The last serious Ainu rebellion was the Menashi-Kunashir rebellion in 1789. In 1790, Kakizaki Hakyō painted the Ishūretsuzō, a series of portraits of Ainu chiefs, in order to prove to the Japanese populace that the Matsumae were capable of controlling the northern borders and the Ainu [citation needed]. The 12 paintings of Ainu chiefs were ...

  8. Ainu cuisine - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Korpokkur - Wikipedia

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    Some anthropologists of the 19th and 20th centuries believed that the korpokkur were in fact a "race that predated the Ainu".Arnold Henry Savage Landor proposed a theory about the indigenous people of Hokkaido, which suggested that the Ainu, migrating from the north, overtook and displaced an earlier population known as the Koro-pok-kuru.