Hiromasa Sashima of the Raporo Ainu Nation speaks at a press conference in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on July 2, 2026. (Kyodo) SAPPORO (Kyodo) -- A Japanese high court on Thursday upheld a lower court ...

Hokkaido's distinctive culture will stay with travellers long after they leave. Originally hunter-gatherers, the island’s Indigenous Ainu people have a different language, religion and culture from ...

Hi. I'm Tim and this is my pronunciation workshop. Here, I'm going to show you how English is really spoken. Come on, let's go inside. You see this? This is my lunch - well, either that, or it's some ...

The Ainu Heirloom is a Yotei Grasslands Tale in Ghost of Yotei. While this quest is technically started in the Yotei Grasslands, you can't complete it until you reach the Nayoro Wilds region later in ...

The Ainu Kotan is a Yotei Grasslands Tale in Ghost of Yotei. Even though it's technically classified as a Tale, this isn't really a quest at all. It's really just there to let you know that there's an ...

Last month, Google launched its interactive Endangered Languages Project site. The website aims to catalog and raise awareness about the world's endangered languages. Language bears centuries of ...

Ainu music and AI co-creative environmental theory may seem like disparate fields at first glance. However, at their core, they share a common worldview: "Nature is not an object for humans to ...

Documentary sheds light on Ainu The traditional lifestyle of Japan's indigenous Ainu people is rapidly disappearing. One man has been documenting the lives of his fellow Ainus as they strive to ...

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I passed the Eiken Pre-1st Grade, but I still have a vocabulary workbook for the Pre-1st Grade level left, so I intend to finish it. It's not progressing very quickly, though. I'm studying while ...

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