The indigenous people of Northern Japan are using a Māori technique to revitalise their language, which is at risk of dying out. The Ainu language is listed as 'critically endangered', but ...

While on the island, he creates a transcript of the language of its indigenous inhabitants, the Ainu people. Piłsudski is much better known there, as in Poland he is greatly overshadowed by his ...

The Ainu boast a unique culture and language. Until the 19th century, their main activities were hunting, fishing, gathering plants and farming. They also actively engaged with surrounding regions ...

The Japanese language is notorious for its ambiguity ... that the history of Hokkaido's indigenous people, the Ainu, was about to be rewritten. Since the mid-1970s I had been investigating ...

Teru starts recording “Kamui Yukar” one day at the recommendation of an Ainu language researcher who comes from Tokyo. She turns out to have such excellent Japanese translation skills that she ...

The centerpiece of the complex, the National Ainu Museum, uses the Ainu language, which is in danger of dying out, as the first language and offers a variety of materials that help visitors to ...

Increasing numbers of Ainu are also starting to relearn their language, which is linguistically isolated and declared as ...

But poorly understood, Japan’s indigenous Ainu people face a harsh reality, with their culture and language in danger of extinction. One of the world's biggest manga exhibitions will be held at ...

This makes those who still speak the Ainu language an extremely rare and special breed. When you go to Towada-Hachimantai you would do yourself a disservice if you didn't enjoy one of the multiple ...

After centuries of forced assimilation, Japan’s indigenous Ainu population, language and culture are emerging once more thanks to anime, the country’s thriving sub-cultures and YouTube.