| This exhibition includes Ainu art which attracted great interest recently when exhibited in Europe. |
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| The spirit-sending festival, called i-omante, either for a bear or striped owl, was the most important Ainu festival. |
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| Part of the solution was to promote trade for food with the Ainu people on the northern island of Hokkaido. |
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| Until 400 years ago, the Ainu controlled Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's four main islands. |
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| In the nineteenth century, the Ainu were displaced from the island of Hokkaido when the majority Japanese settled there. |
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| The Ainu of Japan and the Eskimos of Greenland are two of the peoples who make use of vigesimal systems to the present day. |
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| The Japanese phonetic syllabaries or the Roman alphabet is used to transcribe Ainu speech. |
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| Though other teachers had to fill him in on how many Hokkaido place names were Ainu names so he may not be the best source. |
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| There are also two indigenous minority groups in Japan, the Ainu and the Burakumin. |
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| She spoke no Japanese, so he spoke Ainu words first, and grew up fluent in that dying language. |
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| In this story a bird is sent down to earth to dry out some of the mud in the primordial slush so that islands can be formed for the Ainu. |
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| Through wide-ranging schooling, generations of Ainu children grew up without the ability to speak Ainu anymore. |
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| The hero, Otsam-Un-Kur, has been raised by his two beautiful sisters, who represent all that is valued in Ainu women. |
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| He wanted to study Ainu there and rented a Japanese house and lived with an Ainu from Sakhalin to learn Ainu. |
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| The earliest settlers according to archaeologists were a tribal people, the Ainu. |
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| However, the author fails to mention whether the Japanese brought Buddhism or Confucianism to the Ainu. |
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| Other linguistic minorities include the Korean-Japanese and the Ainu. |
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| The publication of dictionaries, textbooks and bilingual Ainu-Japanese collections of Ainu oral literature is increasing year by year. |
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| Industrial growth, in turn, produced serious water pollution in the river valley, which was sacred to the Ainu. |
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| Mr Kato thinks that maybe ten times more than the official number think of themselves as Ainu, even if many are of mixed blood. |
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| The evolution of the ratio indicates a steady improvement in the Ainu access to high school and college. |
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| Beginning in 1868, the Japanese government imposed a new way of life on the Hokkaido Ainu. |
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| Believing that deities can be found in their surroundings, the Ainu frequently use dance to worship and give thanks for nature. |
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| Despite the upsurge of interest, as long as Ainu is not part of the curriculum in Hokkaido schools, its future is uncertain. |
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| It must be recognized, however, that for now the Ainu interested in their language are from relatively affluent backgrounds. |
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| On June 6, 2008, the Japanese Diet unanimously adopted the resolution concerning the Ainu people. |
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| The event is a fundraiser for Southern Cross University students, who are trying to raise funds for an intercultural exchange with the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan. |
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| He will also visit with the Ainu, indigenous people in northern Japan. |
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| But it's just kind of interesting that the Ainu, who are the original inhabitants of Japan, once spoke of there being seven stars in the sky, The Seven Sisters. |
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| Here Japanese objects were presented alongside those of the Ainu, an indigenous community in northern Japan of distinctly non-Japanese linguistic and ethnic identity. |
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| The Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, are largely based in Hokkaido. |
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| It was run by a member of the Ainu women's association of Hokkaido. |
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| Some subclades of C and D closer to the Native American subclades occur among Mongolian, Amur, Japanese, Korean, and Ainu populations. |
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| A distinctive trait was the rectangular eye orbits, similar to those of modern Ainu people. |
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| At that northeastern shore of Siberia there is a carryover of musical style to the Ainu of northeastern Japan, and possible musical ties are found between the Eskimos of Asia and of North America. |
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| The Ainu have emphasized that they were the natives of the Kuril islands and that the Japanese and Russians were both invaders. |
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| The foundation has worked closely with the Ainu of Japan and indigenous peoples of Columbia and Brazil to protect salmon. |
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| For the Ainu, dance reinforces their connection to the natural and religious world and provides a link to other Arctic cultures in Russia and North America. |
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| The government of Hokkaido Prefecture conducted six surveys in 1972, 1979, 1986, 1993, 1999 and 2006 respectively, on the living conditions of the Ainu people. |
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| At the end of the Russian-Japanese war, as of 1906, a good number of the Ainu from Sakhalin returned, because Japan controlled the south of the island. |
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| Many communities, from the Indian Dalit to the Japanese Ainu, use their new self-awareness to secure their cultural survival and to gain dignity and acknowledgement. |
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| We included in our study data from the Ainu people in the northmost island of the Japanese archipelago, because their ancestor and evolutionary history are still obscure. |
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| Only a determined effort, such as that made in Japan to preserve the Ainu language, which was spoken by only eight people on Hokkaido Island in the late 1980s, can save them. |
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| By guarding the border, rather than conquering or colonizing Ezo, the Matsumae, in essence, made the majority of the island an Ainu reservation. |
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| But Japan only recently recognised that its indigenous people exist at all, and centuries of oppression and aggressive assimilation policies are believed to have inspired many Ainu to deny their indigeneity. |
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| A distinctive trait was the rectangular eye orbits, similar to modern Ainu people. |
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| These figures indicate that the ratios of the Ainu people to work in the primary and secondary industries are relatively high against that in the tertiary industries. |
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| However, CS reported that the Ainu still experience discrimination as a result of Japan's mono-cultural national identity and the lack of judicial remedies to respond to discrimination. |
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| In 2004, the small Ainu community living in Kamchatka Krai wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin, urging him to reconsider any move to award the Southern Kuril islands to Japan. |
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| The Japanese government has declared that there is only one homogenous community in Japan, denying the existence of people like the Ainu and other indigenous communities. |
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| The Ainu language, which has no proven relationship to Japanese or any other language, is moribund, with only a few elderly native speakers remaining in Hokkaido. |
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| The Ainu population decreased drastically in the 19th century, due in large part to infectious diseases brought by Japanese settlers pouring into Hokkaido. |
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| Here he met the first Ainu and managed to kill fifty of them. |
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