The Ainu People of Japan

INTRODUCTION Ainu is about Ainu human. In the past 120 years, the Ainu tradition has changed with the times. Nonetheless, culture has experienced a young generation from their grandparents intensely. In Japan, it is estimated that 50,000 to nearly 100,000 Ainu people live in Japan. Ainu culture began from the island of northern Japan called Hokkaido. Everything about Ainu is currently the same as all other Japanese.

Japan has lived since prehistoric times, but the first settlers are hunter gatherer groups known as Jomon people and are considered to be the ancestors of the Ainu today. In Japan there will be an increase in settlers from the Asian continent, and these settlers are known as Yayoi and are believed to be mixed with Jomonese people and cause Japanese people to compete. The country where Japan first concentrates can be traced back to the ancient burial era, during which the kingdom called Yamato ruled the western half of Japan. The ruler of Yamato is a genetic series of the emperor and still exists in modern Japanese royal family to this day. After the Joseon Dynasty, Japanese people will first contact China and South Korea in the Asuka era where Japanese culture began to absorb China's influence.

In northern Japan, the Kuril islands, Sakhalin and Ainu are traditional residents. Today, the population of Ainu has decreased to less than 200,000 people, but these indigenous people in northern Japan are important for understanding Japanese history and Japanese identity. In fact, the fact that the Japanese government did not completely colonize Hokkaido was not until the Meiji Restoration (it was called Ezo until the 1860s). Toyotomi Hideyoshi, under the control of the Matsubara family, as a march block of the southernmost Ezo end under Japanese rule, and outside the Ainu land during the Meiji era (1868-1912), the Japanese government regulates legal regulations I approved. We promote Ainu tradition and assimilation. Until 2008, Ainu 's talent was regarded as indigenous in Japan. Today, descendants of Ainu people claimed by Russia are not officially recognized as Ainu either.

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 animal religion is solid. Many ethnographic magazines created by anthropologist Fieldwork are our understanding of our culture and we may think of it as our own foreign culture. Ethnographic magazines are often written to understand the customs of cultures under study so they can fill gaps between different lifestyles. Majorie Shostak is one of the famous anthropologists who tried to do this in her work. While staying in the Dobe district of Botswana, she learned the life of Kung women.