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 ...

Its language reflects the values and usage of the time in which ... with them a type of house which was closely identified with Japanese culture. Even the poor Ainu in the northernmost island have ...

Ainu Mosir features a scene from the Marimo Festival, an important event in Ainu Kotan. Shige, who lives in Shiranuka, more than 80 kilometers from Lake Akan, also participated in this festival.

The Air Self-Defense Force is facing pressure to jettison its new aircraft logo amid criticisms from Ainu people indigenous to Hokkaido that it appropriates their culture. One Ainu group is ...

Japan’s Nikkatsu has acquired worldwide sales rights for What Should We Have Done?, a documentary about one family’s approach to mental health that has proved a sleeper success at the local ...

In the story, the dialogue dances between English and Japanese, with some conversations starting in one language and flowing into the other. This mirrors the beauty of real-life connection ...

Body language is a silent orchestra, as people constantly give clues to what they’re thinking and feeling. Non-verbal messages including body movements, facial expressions, vocal tone and volume ...

The Padma Awards were announced yesterday and the Telugu states got seven awards (one Padma Vibhushan, one Padma Bhushan and five Padma Shri) combined. While Telangana got two Padma Awards, AP got ...

The Japan-America Society hosts Japanese language classes, the D.C. Sakura Matsuri festival and other events in the D.C. area, as well as the National Japan Bowl, a Japanese language competition ...

However, relatively little attention has been paid to another key aspect that affects replicability: language. Across fields, language plays a central role in all steps of the research cycle and ...

In Japan, the Indigenous community known as the Ainu has been struggling to assert a 21st century identity after decades of erasure. About 20 years ago, the government officially recognized them as ...