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Destruction of the Ainu Language

open access: yesЕжегодник Япония, 2022
Ainu is the only native minority language in Japan during the historical period. Its genetic relations are not known, its grammatical system differs from the systems of the languages of the surrounding peoples.
V. M. Alpatov
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“Ainu Divine Songs Collection” (Ainu Shin’yoshu) by Chiri Yukie

open access: yesЕжегодник Япония, 2022
“Ainu Divine Songs Collection” or “Ainu Shinyoshu” is a selection of the song epos of Ainu, compiled in 1922 by young Ainu girl Chiri Yukie (1903-1922). Ainu are not numerous people living in Hokkaido. The name of these people came out of the word “ainu”
E. G. Tyurleneva
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The interpreters of Ainu language in the lands of Ezo in the 17th – 18th centuries (based on Japanese archive materials)

open access: yesЯпонские исследования, 2023
This article, based on Japanese sources, discusses the question of how the Ainu language interpreters’ guild was formed, what functions translators performed, and how their status changed in the period from the 17th to the 18th centuries.
O. V. Klimova
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YouTube Itak: a description of Ainu-related videos

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
The Ainu are an Indigenous group currently living primarily in Japan. Following the cultural revitalisation of laws and social movements and the appropriation of new technologies, Ainu communities are increasingly using social media to disseminate their ...
Xanat Vargas Meza   +5 more
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Ainu Policy Promotion Act: The problem of compliance with international standards on the rights of indigenous peoples

open access: yesЯпонские исследования, 2022
This article is devoted to the analysis of the Act on Promoting Measures to Realize a Society in Which the Pride of the Ainu People Is Respected (Act No. 16 of 2019).
E. S. Chekunkova
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La chasse à la baleine chez les Aïnous et leurs traditions préhistoriques dans l’archipel du Japon

open access: yesLes Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2022
The Ainu is an ethnic group native to Hokkaido in the north part of Japanese Archipelago. Their territory also previously extended to the island of Sakhalin and the Chishima Islands. This knowledge and experience, was maintained by the Ainu.
Kazuharu Takehana
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Ainu in modern Japanese society: the problem of returning the remains of ancestors

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History, 2021
The article is devoted to the issue of repatriation of Ainu ancestral remains, collected by Japanese researchers in the second half of the 19th - 20th centuries.
Ekaterina S. Chekunkova
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Unknown pages of history of the Ainu. Review of the book Ainu Through the Eyes of Japanese: An Unknown Collection by A.V. Grigoriev by Vasily V. Shchepkin

open access: yesЯпонские исследования, 2023
The article reviews the book by Vasily Shchepkin Ainu Through the Eyes of Japanese: An Unknown Collection by A.V. Grigoriev (2022). The book is based on 18th and 19th-century Japanese manuscript materials and blockprints about the Ainu people, which for ...
E. S. Yuklyaevskikh
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To the origins of the originality of the Ainu culture. Review of the collective monograph “New Sources on the History and Culture of the Ainu”

open access: yesЯпонские исследования, 2022
The article is a review of the collective monograph New Sources on the History and Culture of the Ainu. In the chapters of the monograph, Russian scholars, based on the analysis of material and written sources in Russian and foreign languages, consider ...
Y. S. Pestushko
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