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Ainu

Aboriginal people of Japan, driven north in the 4th century AD by ancestors of the Japanese. They now number about 25,000, inhabiting Japanese and Russian territory on Sakhalin, Hokkaido, and the Kuril Islands. Their language has no written form, and is unrelated to any other. The Ainu were recognized by the Japanese government as a minority people in 1991.



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The development of a local identity during the formation of Japan's modern nation-state necessitated reflection on Tsugaru's relationship to the Ainu people.
Tsugaru: Regional Identity on Japan's Northern Periphery by Occhi, Debra J. / Pacific Affairs
Science writer and adventurer Jon Turk set out on a 3,000-mile voyage across the Pacific in an open boat to see if the oldest North American was in fact, a Jomon--an ancient inhabitant of Japan and related to Polynesians and the Ainu.
Bounty of books by Dickinson, Elaine / BOAT/U.S. Magazine
Among the Ainu (indigenous people of the Japanese archipelago), good spirits live on seventeen levels above the earth, while bad ones inhabit nine or seven levels under the earth (Stutley: 49, 59).
Holy men and their sky journeys: a cross-cultural model by Pilch, John J. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
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