More than a century after colonisation, the Ainu language almost vanished. Now machines are listening to hours of old ...

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The Japanese name for Rhinoceros Auklet — Utou — means ’protrusion’ in the Ainu language. Ainu is the language of the original inhabitants of Hokkaido, Japan. Burrow of Rhinoceros Auklet. The chicks ...

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The skulls of three indigenous Ainu people have been returned to their community by a university. The remains, which have been held at the University of Edinburgh ’s Anatomical Museum for more ...

The Ainu lived in self-governing villages across northern Japan for centuries, maintaining a separate language and distinctive culture from the rest of the population.

April 30, 2025 at 7:42pm BST The skulls of three indigenous Ainu people have been returned to their community by a university. The remains, which have been held at the University of Edinburgh’s ...

Masaru Okawa, executive director of the Hokkaido Ainu Association, said the Edinburgh skulls should be returned to Japan for "respectful memorialisation". He said: "We can only imagine the ...

He was annoyed about that." The Ainu language is now recognised by UNESCO as "critically endangered," with only a handful of fluent speakers remaining.