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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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.

On the sadder end of the scale, some languages are critically endangered, and efforts to revitalize the language seem pointless at best. Hokkaido Ainu, spoken in the north of Japan, has only two ...