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Omoto has also shown that the Ainu are Mongoloid, and not Caucasoid, on the basis of fingerprints and dental morphology.
The town of Nibutani ( Ainu: Niputay ) in Hidaka area ( Hokkaido prefecture ) has a number of Ainu households and a visit to some of the Ainu owned craft shops close to the Ainu museums ( there are two of them in Nibutani ) is an opportunity to interact with the Ainu people.
In fact, no attempt to show a relationship with Ainu to any other language has gained wide acceptance, and Ainu is currently considered to be a language isolate.
The Ainu language has had no system of writing, and has historically been transliterated by the Japanese kana or the Russian Cyrillic.
The unwieldy nature of the Japanese kana with its inability to accurately represent terminal consonants has contributed to the degradation of the original Ainu.
It should be noted that Japan has a small number of minorities such as Ryūkyū peoples, Koreans and Chinese, and on the northern island of Hokkaidō, the indigenous Ainu minority.
However, they are either numerically insignificant ( Ainu ), their difference is not as pronounced ( though Ryukyuan culture is closely related to Japanese culture, it is nonetheless distinctive in that it historically received much more influence from China and has separate political and nonpolitical and religious traditions ) or well assimilated ( Zainichi population is collapsing due to assimilation / naturalisation ).
Japanese society, with its ideology of homogeneity, has traditionally rejected any need to recognize ethnic differences in Japan, even as such claims have been rejected by such ethnic minorities as the Ainu and Ryukyuan people.
( There used to be a similar style, Rekuhkara, practiced by the Ainu in Hokkaidō, but that has since died out.
Japan has granted mutual exchange visas for Japanese and Ainu families divided by the change in status.
The Ainu of Hokkaidō, Japan, once practiced a type of throat singing called rekuhkara, which has since become extinct.
* Shiretoko National Park in Hokkaidō, Japan has a hot springs waterfall called Kamuiwakkayu-no-taki, which translates as " river of the gods " in the Ainu language.
Ainu is a moribund language, and has been endangered for at least the past few decades.
This has led to an increasing number of second-language learners, especially in Hokkaidō, in large part due to the pioneering efforts of the late Ainu folklorist, activist and former Diet member Shigeru Kayano, himself a native speaker.
They hunt deer and bear, and their culture has much in common with the bear cult of the Ainu.
It has been suggested that this myth points to an actual neolithic people who existed separately from the Ainu, and may even have been examples of Homo floresiensis, the so-called " hobbit " hominid.
Evidence cited for this has included pit dwellings which differ from Ainu dwellings, and pottery which does not fit in with what is known of Ainu culture.

Ainu and no
In Japan, because of intermarriage over many years with Japanese, the concept of a pure Ainu ethnic group is no longer feasible.
Similarly, no one identifies themselves as Amur Valley Ainu, although people with partial descent can be found in Khabarovsk.
It is believed that there are no remaining living descendants of the Kamchatka Ainu.
According to the 2002 Russian Federation census, no responders gave the ethnonym Ainu in boxes 7 or 9. 2 in the K-1 form of the census, though some still might exist.
Due to intermarriage with the Japanese and ongoing absorption into the predominant culture, there are no truly Ainu settlements existing in Japan today.
There is no known established Ainu language word for the island of Hokkaido.
The meaning of the written form of Ishikari has no relationship to the meaning of word in the Ainu language.
The name is derived from Kamikawa no hitobito no Shūraku ( Village of the Upstream People ), a translation of the Ainu Peni Unguri Kotan.
The name, Noboribetsu, derives from an Ainu word, nupur-pet, which means dark-coloured river ( the kanji 登別 are used for their phonetic value only, and have no relation to the original meaning ).
Foreigners are at times restricted from certain services and activities, because, although according to the Constitution, all citizens are equal, but the country has no effective restrictions on xenophobic actions, although the government recently recognized the Ainu, a people group long discriminated against.
There is no consensus, however, that the Ainu languages have sources in any other known language, and the unique population genetics of the Ainu people support the hypothesis that they were largely isolated from the rest of the world for many thousands of years.
The meaning of the written form of Shakotan has no relationship to the meaning of " Shakotan " in the Ainu language.
According to the Matsumae Clan ’ s Chronicles of Shiragi ( Shiragi no kiroku 新羅の記録 ), from the first year of the Genna Era to about Genna 7 ( 1615 – 1622 ) the region ’ s inhabitants ( referred to as the Ezo-people, or “ Ainu ”) traded with the Matsumae Clan, noting that the Matsumae received 100 small boats worth of eagle feathers and sea otter pelts.
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Other place names in Kantō and Chūbu, such as Mount Ashigara ( Kanagawa – Shizuoka ), Musashi ( modern Tokyo ), Keta Shrine ( Toyama ), and the Noto Peninsula, have no explanation in Japanese, but do in Ainu.
In 1050, Abe no Yoritoki held the post of Chinjufu shogun, as the Abe clan had for many generations ; he was the chief commander of the defense of northern Honshū against the native Ezo ( Ainu ) people.

Ainu and generally
The Ainu have broad faces, beetling eyebrows, and large sunken eyes, which are generally horizontal and of the so-called European type.
In older periods, the epics were performed by both men and women ; during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Ainu culture was in decline, women were generally the most skillful performers.

Ainu and accepted
Other proposals, further back in time ( and proportionately less accepted ), link Indo-European and Uralic with Altaic and the other language families of northern Eurasia, namely Yukaghir, Korean, Japanese, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Nivkh, Ainu, and Eskimo – Aleut, but excluding Yeniseian ( the most comprehensive such proposal is Joseph Greenberg's Eurasiatic ), or link Indo-European, Uralic, and Altaic to Afro-Asiatic and Dravidian ( the traditional form of the Nostratic hypothesis ), and ultimately to a single Proto-Human family.
This the Government instituted and the Ainu were accepted as common people.

Ainu and genealogical
No genealogical relationship between Ainu and any other language family has been demonstrated, despite numerous attempts.

Ainu and relationship
Although there have been attempts to show that the Ainu language and the Japanese language are related, modern scholars have rejected that the relationship goes beyond contact, such as the mutual borrowing of words between Japanese and Ainu.
Commonly cited examples include Basque, Korean, Ainu and Burushaski, though in each case a minority of linguists claim to have demonstrated a relationship with other languages.

Ainu and any
In 1953, K. Omelchenko, the minister for the protection of military and state secrets in USSR banned the press from publishing any more information on the Ainu living in the USSR.
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.
Ainu singers and dancers could often only find an avenue for their talents, and in some cases, find any job at all, in these cultural shows.
The Ainu people willingly and thankfully ate the bear as they believed that the disguise ( the flesh and fur ) of any god was a gift to the home that the god chose to visit ( Kindaichi, 1949, p. 348 ).

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