Ethnography: Ainu

Ethnography: Ainu world view People in Ainu are indigenous people in Japan, lonely people, and now they live only in Hokkaido islands in Hokkaido. According to a survey in 1984, the number is 24,381, which continues to rise from the lowest point of forced labor and disease in the mid-19th century, has passed through most of the standardized Japanese society and is integrated. Most of them still live in Hokkaido. Ainu 's animistic religion is closely related to other aspects of culture.

Some people call the Ainu language which is the Ainu language, meaning "humanity" in Ainu language, so it is called "Utari". It is a "community's redneck". Distribution area from Sakhalin Island, Chishima, Hokkaido, Northeast Japan. Due to their geographical characteristics, Ainu is rich in diversity even if it lacks mutual understanding. Also, since the end of the 19th century, this area has been involved in a big political struggle between Japan and Russia. The Japanese government has promoted aggressive assimilation policy aggressively to the Ainu citizens in the northeast and Hokkaido. Decades later, the Ainu language is considered a dangerous language, many linguists from Europe, and the "non-golden capital" which is dedicated to recording it.

Before immigrant groups arrived from the Asian continent, the Ainu occupied most of the Japanese islands. Gradually, the newbies conquered and absorbed the Ainu and became the subject of the Japanese citizens. Today, less than 20,000 Ainu people survive as a unique culture group, mainly in Hokkaido, Hokkaido. By marriage, they will soon be assimilated into a larger culture. Purely Ainu people are rare. The decline of Ainu culture began in 1868 when the country began rapid modernization and accelerated after World War II. Traditionally, Ainu people are engaged in hunting and fishing but women use sticks to gather wild fruits and nuts and to dig roots and bulbs. Today, they usually work as farmers and commercial fishery.