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The decision included broad fact-finding that underscored the long history of the oppression of the Ainu people by Japan's majority, referred to as wajin in the case, and discussions about the case. [165] [169] The decision was issued on March 27, 1997. Because of the broad implications for Ainu rights, the plaintiffs decided not to appeal the ...
The name is traditionally analysed as a tripartite compound of kor ("butterbur plant"), pok ("under, below"), and kur ("person") and interpreted to mean "people below the leaves of the Fuki" in the Ainu language. The Ainu believe that the korpokkur were the people who lived in the Ainu land before the Ainu themselves lived there. They were ...
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 Yezo sika deer (Cervus nippon yesoensis, [1] [2] Japanese: エゾシカ / 蝦夷鹿, romanized: yezoshika, [3] Ainu: ユク yuk [4] [5]) is a subspecies of sika deer that inhabits the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. The Hokkaido sika are endemic, although it is not known whether they originated there or migrated from Honshū or areas ...
Japanese sources that include an etymology describe Ezo as probably originally a borrowing from the Ainu word enciw meaning ' person; people '. [3] [5] [6] [4] The term is first attested in Japanese in a text from 1153 in reference to any of the non-Japanese people living in the northeast of Honshū, and then later in 1485 in reference to the northern islands where these people lived ...
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 ...
A 2016 study presented an analysis of the population genetics of the Ainu people of northern Japan as key to the reconstruction of the early peopling of East Asia. The Ainu were found to represent a more basal branch than the modern farming populations of East Asia, suggesting an ancient (pre-Neolithic) connection with northeast Siberians. [115]
Ainu or Aynu may refer to: 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