AINU: Indigenous Peoples in Japan

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  • @alexeimuraki3420
    @alexeimuraki3420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1046

    Hello TH-cam community, I am an Ainu from Russia, Sakhalin. We are the native population of northern Japan and southeastern Siberia. We are descedants of the Northeast Asian Okhotsk and a paleolithic population from Central Asia which migrated to Japan more than 30,000 years ago. The Northeast Asian Okhotsk people were related to other Northeast Asians and Native Americans, while the paleolithic Central Asians are not closely related to any modern group. The paleolithic Central Asians contributed the "European-like look" as they share some genes with Europeans and Middle Easterners, but not all Ainu had such "European-like look". The majority always looked Northeast Asian or a mix of the two looks. The Ainu language and culture originated largely from the Northeast Asian Okhotsk people, thus we have many similarities to other Northeast Asians, Siberians and Native Americans. It is a misconception that all Ainu are hairy or look European. We do not. The majority of historical Ainu and of modern Ainu is similar to other people around the Sea of Okhotsk. Europeans exaggarated the "European" look among Ainu.
    To sum up: We Ainu people came from the combination of the Northeast Asian Okhotsk culture and a paleolithic population which arrived from Central Asia. I am happy that other people are interested in the Ainu history, culture and people. Thank you. :)

    • @nomad963
      @nomad963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      This is amazing! Very interesting. Preserve your culture!

    • @alexeimuraki3420
      @alexeimuraki3420 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      @Matthew Tenorio_3200654 The Sakhalin Ainu language was a own language/dialect, but today is sadly extinct. I am currently learning Hokkaido Ainu, as it is the last living Ainu dialect.

    • @gamermapper
      @gamermapper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      How is your life there? Would you rather live in Hokkaido?

    • @gamermapper
      @gamermapper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Как к вам относятся люди

    • @ANTSEMUT1
      @ANTSEMUT1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@alexeimuraki3420 i thought Ainu culture was wiped out in Sakahalin along with the Sakahalin dialect? Is the the culture still being practiced?

  • @stefanoandrianopoulos9071
    @stefanoandrianopoulos9071 5 ปีที่แล้ว +641

    I think it is fascinating how there are others very similar to the native Americans all the way on the other side of the globe. Also respect to Nintendo for the heavy Ainu tribute in Breath of the wild

    • @LordJagd
      @LordJagd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      What are the Ainu tributes in the game?

    • @alicastro3777
      @alicastro3777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Stefano Andrianopoulos - I alway said native Americans look similar to Japanese/ Chinese - the same straight black hair

    • @MAI-mq6kv
      @MAI-mq6kv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      Ali Castro actually native americans originated in siberia about 10,000 years ago and slowly relocated in the americas so it makes sense that they’re genetically similar to mongolians/manchus/koreans/chinese/japanese and similar to indigenous groups in east asia in terms of their traditions and cultures

    • @alicastro3777
      @alicastro3777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      mao美 - Thankyou -I will do more research into this interesting subject

    • @enriquegarcia2790
      @enriquegarcia2790 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@alicastro3777 we would be more related to the Ainu then the Japanese. The Japanese people are actually just Chinese people born in Japan similar to how modern Americans are just Europeans born in America

  • @nicolasgoldring7128
    @nicolasgoldring7128 6 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    I hope the beautiful cultural heritage and language of the Ainu can remain alive for years to come.

  • @2551987ezio
    @2551987ezio 4 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    Man, I haven't realized there were an Aboriginal Japanese people in Japan till I watch Golden Kamuy, since then I been really fascinated about them, as I'm an Aboriginal of Canada.

    • @艾伦诺塔斯基
      @艾伦诺塔斯基 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You Canadian native are not real native but you are from Siberia Russia and never forgot you from the Great Russia 👈 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

    • @2551987ezio
      @2551987ezio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@艾伦诺塔斯基 Yes I've heard of that. Makes it more fascinating.

    • @艾伦诺塔斯基
      @艾伦诺塔斯基 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@2551987ezio yes it is ✌ 😍 also remember that when Catherine the great conquered Alaska she never killed any natives or destroyed any houses of natives

    • @i-canteleportbehindyou9734
      @i-canteleportbehindyou9734 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@艾伦诺塔斯基 lol

    • @kaeruuu_2208
      @kaeruuu_2208 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What does aboriginal mean? Also, if you want to know of other indigenous people who were conquered or annexed by Japan, you should research about Okinawa. I’m Okinawan, and we were annexed by Japan and controlled by many countries, which caused us to loose most of our language and culture.

  • @JennyAlaska
    @JennyAlaska 3 ปีที่แล้ว +637

    We Native Americans can relate to this. We are also taking our culture back now.

    • @gabrielgarcia579
      @gabrielgarcia579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Youre native american 😅 but your name is english, fortunately same different in South America.

    • @Human34456
      @Human34456 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      🤔

    • @Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96
      @Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      @@gabrielgarcia579 your name is literally European

    • @gabrielgarcia579
      @gabrielgarcia579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96 my real name?

    • @arolemaprarath3248
      @arolemaprarath3248 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96 No it isn't. His name is Hispanic. He is Latino!

  • @LambentOrt
    @LambentOrt ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Indigenous people all over the world stand with the Ainu and all other indigenous communities whose way of life is under threat of disappearing. Don't give up the fight to retain, maintain and sustain your indigenous heritage, knowledge and wisdom. I truly believe there will be a time in the future when the world will need us, for we are the last guardians of the earth's soul.

  • @vister6757
    @vister6757 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    Wonderful to see they are trying to preserve their own culture and language. Wish them all success.

    • @Taromango-x9f
      @Taromango-x9f ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Japanese samurai cut the Ainu to make sure their swords were sharp.

  • @thevegaspugtenshi2050
    @thevegaspugtenshi2050 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    My grandfather is Ainu from Hokkaido Japan. I am proud of him.

    • @chesterdonnelly1212
      @chesterdonnelly1212 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This is what I think about Ainu people. People have Ainu grandparents but they mixed with Japanese people and their grandchildren are Japanese. Most of the so-called Ainu people today look and sound Japanese. I think the Ainu people are gone now.

    • @livya5676
      @livya5676 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you speak ainu?

    • @Kikincognito
      @Kikincognito ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi! I am conducting a study on Indigeous languages of Japan, and desperately looking for Ainu participants, is there any chance that your grandfather or maybe your parent would like to answer it? It is a 10 min survey in japanese, but I can provide the list of questions in english too.

  • @annawan2518
    @annawan2518 5 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    'Princess Mononoke' introduced me to the indigenous peoples of Japan.

    • @alicastro3777
      @alicastro3777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Anna Wan - spirited away is my favourite

    • @annawan2518
      @annawan2518 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@alicastro3777 Yes! It is an amazing film, love all Studio Ghibli films.

    • @emmabangcolongan666
      @emmabangcolongan666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Princess monoke anime was confrontation between the japanese and the emishi in northern honshu

    • @anm0543
      @anm0543 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Anna Wan I’m literally watching that right now but I paused to watch this video

    • @annawan2518
      @annawan2518 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@anm0543 😀😁💖💖💖👍

  • @benkennedy2045
    @benkennedy2045 5 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    My classmate was Ainu. Her aura was so kind

  • @MrHds46
    @MrHds46 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Greetings from mainland Siberia! I'm Sakha, we have the largest subnational governing body by area in the world and it's also our own autonomous Republic. I hope ainu and native americans will get their lands back and save their culture.

  • @seljuk8069
    @seljuk8069 5 ปีที่แล้ว +175

    The Ainu are the descendants of the native northern Jōmon people. Most of their ancestors are linked to ancient southern Siberians. They also have links to some Native Americans on the northwest coast of Northern America, such as Tlingit. These ancient southern Siberians have Paleolithic ties to Caucasoid groups such as Arabs and Europeans, but got isolated since about 53,000 years ago in Siberia from where they migrated into ancient Japan and parts of America. They are present in Japan since about 40,000 years. According to genetic studies they form a unique isolated cluster but share still some DNA with Arctic populations in Eurasia and some Native American groups.

    • @kevinbarrera6985
      @kevinbarrera6985 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They are actually decendants from the Israelites as well as the Native Americans

    • @Orangejeda
      @Orangejeda 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@kevinbarrera6985 😂

    • @KevinArcade87
      @KevinArcade87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@kevinbarrera6985 😂

    • @SneakerSamurai
      @SneakerSamurai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They have haplo group D, one that's closest to the haplo groups shared by Nigerians (E) and the other one shared by Aboriginals (C) from Australia. They're more African than Siberian.

    • @broks689
      @broks689 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@SneakerSamurai no

  • @mangan8r
    @mangan8r 4 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    I hope most of the Ainu would survive COVID-19.
    😔
    🙏

    • @BreakmanRadiio
      @BreakmanRadiio 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      There were only 100 Ainu speaking people in Japan in 2019, according to one study. Even if that's a significant underestimate, that still means it was at risk of becoming a dead language. Most of the people who still spoke Ainu were extremely elderly, so they were certainly at risk. However, thankfully, there has been a huge movement to save the Ainu language since 2019, and the manga/anime "Golden Kamuy" has helped the Ainu benefit from increased tourism from fans of the series, especially young people.

  • @EyFmS
    @EyFmS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    It's incredible to see the strikling resemblance of the Ainu and the Northwest people and all the way down to the tip of the South American cone. Shows the world is much smaller than we think and need to cheerish and preserve all cultural heritages.

  • @joaquinkakeewaykenny3275
    @joaquinkakeewaykenny3275 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Even myself as a Native American man I loved japans culture and their cartoons of anime great to see my people going there

  • @hassannaseem3337
    @hassannaseem3337 6 ปีที่แล้ว +215

    golden kamuy brought me here.

  • @johnvonshepard9373
    @johnvonshepard9373 7 ปีที่แล้ว +251

    Japan need to respect the Ainu more.

    • @I_am_always_correct
      @I_am_always_correct 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      These days they do

    • @morisoba2550
      @morisoba2550 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      I'm Japanese. Japanese are trying to preserve Ainu culture.
      In Japan there are no Ainu anymore, who are native Ainu speaker.
      There are only Ainu-Japanese mixed people, who are native Japanese speaker.

    • @jean-lucpicard3012
      @jean-lucpicard3012 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @@morisoba2550 that's because your government didn't respect the ainu my ancestors did the same to the native Americans. たとえ彼らが混ざっていても、存在しないアイヌをして彼らの存在を軽視するのをやめる。 それは不快でほとんど失礼です。believe me if I told a half Seminole here in Florida he want a Seminole because he was mixed he'd likely feed me to the nearest alligator.

    • @morisoba2550
      @morisoba2550 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@jean-lucpicard3012
      Hundred years ago or before Japanese would discriminate Ainu, but it has changed today. Ironically when Japanese recognize Ainu is precious a part of Japan, Ainu people have been already assimilated into Japanese culture. There are hundreds thousands Ainu mixed Japanese but appearance-wise they are not different from Japanese anymore. By the way, Ainu are probably genetically close to native Americans.

    • @jean-lucpicard3012
      @jean-lucpicard3012 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@morisoba2550you're still completely ignoring your government just like mine fought to eradicate them, their decedent's are still valid when they claim that they're heritage regardless of your governments attempts to dispel that fact.. my government is no less guilty

  • @animevids2019
    @animevids2019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The history department of culture and language are doing a noble job in preserving the ainu native tribes and also letting the masses to realize about their true ancestors

  • @okaygee4132
    @okaygee4132 5 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    From Africa to Asia, the Americas, West Indies and Australia, native/tribal/indigenous/First Nations people have so many similarities; the way they connect with the land, live with a respect for God, and fight to preserve the culture seems like they are always so persecuted.

    • @sruthi671
      @sruthi671 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Even europeans had a native group known as celts and basques ... their culture is very different from the modern, european, christian culture

    • @a.v.j5664
      @a.v.j5664 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@sruthi671 celts weren’t really too indigenous but still very indigenous.
      The basques are 100% indigenous to europe, since they are the last remnants of the old europeans.
      There are also the sámi of Northern Europe who are recognized as the only indigenous people in Europe by the EU

    • @danielesauduadua277
      @danielesauduadua277 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Great words bro, as an indigenous i would say your totally right baut how we connect with the land n God ✌

    • @Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96
      @Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@a.v.j5664 by those standards the American natives aren't indigenous either

    • @Merry19ss
      @Merry19ss 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sruthi671 Todavía los tienen ,además de los Samis este grupo Europeos es Monada ,los otros grupos nativos Europeos también existen solo que ya no son monadas ,los Celtas los la gente de hoy en Irlanda, Escocia, España ,Francia ,los Vascos son la gente de país Vasco España y Sur de Francia ,en España se dieron otros grupos nativos como Iberos y celtiberos que son la gente Española y Portuguesa actual .También están los pueblos nativos del Cáucaso Euroepos nativos que ya no son nómadas pero guardan su cultura .

  • @NotiShounen
    @NotiShounen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    I knew about the Ainu culture because of the anime Golden Kamuy.
    Hinna-hinna.
    Btw, their ending soundtrack is so sick! I love it. ❤

    • @karinasafira2645
      @karinasafira2645 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I love Asirpa since of this

    • @satanichiamcdowell6298
      @satanichiamcdowell6298 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      That anime made me interested in ainu culture

    • @janetmuyoka4517
      @janetmuyoka4517 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      pp

    • @theobserver3753
      @theobserver3753 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      In the story they just took their women while the Ainu didn’t get a japanese woman.

    • @Kumorini
      @Kumorini 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@satanichiamcdowell6298 same

  • @リアプロ
    @リアプロ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The problem is not that these people are hated, no one does. It's the fact that no one knows them.

  • @jacobeksor6088
    @jacobeksor6088 6 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Ainu culture, language so beautiful I respect your culture. I haven’t heard about Ainu indigenous japan before . Ainu people so beautiful . I’m Montagnards indigenous Central highland of Vietnam we facing many problems with Vietnamese government today .

    • @abbad707
      @abbad707 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Jacobe Ksor really cool good luck to you

  • @ZodiacBlack11
    @ZodiacBlack11 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Subtitles say there are a small number of Ainu people that speak the language, and are making an effort to spread the language, the actual footage shows them speaking Japanese and singing about the Ainu people in Japanese.

    • @Merry19ss
      @Merry19ss 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      En Rusia también hay nativos Ainu

  • @Sengence
    @Sengence 6 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    They remind me a lot like Native American Indians.

    • @jp3062
      @jp3062 6 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      yes, autosomal DNA show that our next relatives are native americans and siberians, also tibetans and japanese

    • @katinamarie6651
      @katinamarie6651 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Yes I'm trying to research our Asian ancestors and I keep coming up with the Ainu people

    • @skibb4241
      @skibb4241 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      If you look it up enough.
      Just about every country has indiginous people like this.
      All have chant like singing.
      All have drums of some sort.
      All have spiritual sacred ceremonies.
      And all concoured and converted to the bible in a horrible way..
      True religion. Makes you think they must all have some kind of power that the ones who control everything are afraid of

    • @brentlyjb23
      @brentlyjb23 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Your Dan's Children or Dangun and relatives of the Danae or Navajo and Pueblo Peoples.

    • @NoCareBearsGiven
      @NoCareBearsGiven 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@skibb4241 ummm No not all indigenous peoples have been converted to Christianity. Like ones in China, Korea, and japan

  • @jennyhendriks474
    @jennyhendriks474 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love how there is more attention to the ainu, it is unique and very beautiful

  • @xNocturnalKnightx
    @xNocturnalKnightx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I see comments about _Golden Kamuy..._
    What about _Princess Mononoke_ and the Emishi featured early on?

    • @jade5202
      @jade5202 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've watched both. People talk about Golden Kamui cuz this video is about Ainus. Ainus are still here unlike Emishi

  • @moussasuwwan8623
    @moussasuwwan8623 6 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    The Ainous is a particular people, a fantastic history; suppressed by Japanese, their number does not exceed 6000 people these days.
    The Japanese are so nice with them that they built a Museum to relate their history, just like red Indians in America.
    I am reading a book (in French) intituled :
    « Un voyage chez les Aïnous, Hokkaido-1938 », by Arlette et André LEROI-GOURHAN, edit. Albin Michel, Paris, 1989.
    I borrowed this interesting book from the Japanese Cultural Centre Library in Paris:
    パリ日本文化会館,
    Thanks for this informative video.

    • @Nostre38
      @Nostre38 ปีที่แล้ว

      Japanese is a nationality not an ethnic group. The predominent ethnic group in Japan is Yamato.

  • @StrsAmbrg
    @StrsAmbrg 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    1:19: The traditional chanting, the face, reminds me to the chanting and face of Apache or Chinook or indigenous people of the US. The attire they wear reminds me to the attire of Dayak people in Borneo so do native people in Northern of Philippine.

  • @uggali
    @uggali ปีที่แล้ว +2

    In NZ it’s the schools from kindergarten to university which teach exclusively in the Māori language through the lens of our Māori worldview which is having the greatest impact in the revitalisation of local dialects and local traditions and intergenerational knowledge. If you have your own language you have your own world which is very difficult to infiltrate and in your own world you have your own priorities and set your own standards. Its a step closer to sovereignty

  • @diegoherrera1422
    @diegoherrera1422 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The struggle of the Ainu remind me so much of the struggle of natives from the Americas

  • @andhara666
    @andhara666 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    i think, they similiarly look like a Malayu People from Malaysia and Indonesia. The Tradition and language look like Batak, Dayak and Nias Indigenous People of Indonesian.

    • @zenzenitha
      @zenzenitha 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Youssef Houaoui are you familiar with indonesia?

    • @antalyagozleri2526
      @antalyagozleri2526 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Youssef Houaoui
      Tibetans are genetically, historically and linguistically closely related to the Chinese more so than the Ainu or the Japanese. In fact both the Tibetan and Chinese language belongs to the same language family (Sino-Tibetan) which suggests they were originally a single ethnic group which split up. The Tibetans who went west onto the Tibetan Plateau mixed with the original local inhabitants of the region who were genetically Y-DNA Haplogroup D much like the Ainu and formed today's Tibetans. But otherwise the Chinese peoples' Haplogroup O3a2c1a-M117 is a direct mutation of the Tibeto-Burman peoples' Haplogroup O3a2c1-M134. Tibetan people have both Haplogroup O3a2c1-M134 and D as their dominant haplogroups.

    • @Rainbow-zz9oi
      @Rainbow-zz9oi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Batak and Dayak words have same meanings in Turkish language wow

    • @zakiyamauchi9106
      @zakiyamauchi9106 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@zenzenitha well, this thing on 1:38 also existed in Indonesia as well.

    • @hanselsihotang
      @hanselsihotang 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, That communal dance and red-white-black themed garments the Ainus showed in the first minutes of the video reminds me of Batak's custom too.
      Maybe it's typical pattern that'd be born in the culture of isolated tribes.

  • @FrankieGHL
    @FrankieGHL 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I learned about this beautiful culture thanks to Shaman King back in 2001!

  • @monalisa3549
    @monalisa3549 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Okay, yes I knew of Ainu from anime too but not from Golden Kamuy, I knew bout them from Shaman King :)

  • @jasminegueco327
    @jasminegueco327 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I can recall my social studies class during the mid 60's learning about Japanese culture which I enjoyed. And the Ainu culture was also introduced. A photo I remember was a canoe with members of Ainu were honoring a tradition on the waters lifting a tray balls of seaweed? Please correct me if I am wrong. Born in Hawaii, I found this fascinating and similar to the indigenous peoples of the islands ❤.....

  • @Yev-x7u
    @Yev-x7u 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I'm Japanese, I recommend you watch an anime "Golden Kamuy", it'd help you understand Ainu culture if not perfect.

  • @nanotektor
    @nanotektor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The girl at 4:11 looks familiar to me. I'm from Mexico's highlands.

    • @abbad707
      @abbad707 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      nanotektor Yeah Ainu have high Siberian dna and Native Americans migrated from Siberia, also Mexicans are mixed with Europeans and Ainu have Western Eurasian blood so maybe she can look Mexican because of that

    • @porothashawarma2339
      @porothashawarma2339 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@abbad707 yes

    • @mynamisstar1751
      @mynamisstar1751 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@abbad707 they don't have any western blood😅😅😅.

  • @candicefrost4561
    @candicefrost4561 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The tree bark cloth is so cool! It seems so impossible but it’s so awesome when they show the finished cloth.

  • @xanaxist
    @xanaxist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wooow! such a beautiful culture!! massive respect from japan! I live in Honshu, japan but I wanna go to hokkaido someday!

  • @talkshowhost85
    @talkshowhost85 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Japan's treatment of Ainu is a true reflection of Japan and the same goes for other countries with native inhabitants.

  • @opop150
    @opop150 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    The Ainu people are the real origins of Japanese people.

    • @Emsyaz
      @Emsyaz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @Youssef Houaoui no, the current ethnic Japanese people are descendants of Han chinese who migrated from mainland China thousands of years ago but they have intermix with indigenous people of Japan such as the Ainu

    • @sc81838
      @sc81838 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jin Sunazawa is an Ainu himself, but he is opposing this movement. He says several ethnic groups with different languages were artificially grouped together by leftists to form the Ainu movement. Leftists used them in their propaganda to receive public funds. He is concerned that people may use this privilege since you don't need to provide a DNA test to prove you are actually an Ainu.

    • @ukks63
      @ukks63 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Both of Aine and Yamato people are original Japanese because they has been living together.
      We Japanese has never done for Aine something like the white has been doing for native american.

    • @mrdaudouchiha47
      @mrdaudouchiha47 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Emsyaz pry to Uyghur

    • @skellagyook
      @skellagyook 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Emsyaz The Japanese are not descended from Han Chinese. The Chinese and Japanese languages are not related. The Japanese are descended from people (the Yayoi) similar/related to the Koreans, who migrated from Korea about 2,600 years ago and mixed with the indigenous Jomon people of Japan. Japanese people are mixed Yayoi/Jomon (mostly Yayoi) and the Ainu are traditionally mostly Jomon (some are also mixed with recent northest Siberian and/or Japanese).

  • @高木正弘-h6c
    @高木正弘-h6c 6 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Yamato and Ainu is absolutely different ethinic group.

    • @lglstc13
      @lglstc13 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Distant relatives

    • @sc81838
      @sc81838 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Jin Sunazawa is an Ainu himself, but he is opposing this movement. He says several ethnic groups with different languages were artificially grouped together by leftists to form the Ainu movement. Leftists used them in their propaganda to receive public funds. He is concerned that people may use this privilege since you don't need to provide a DNA test to prove you are actually an Ainu.

    • @mirnowruz
      @mirnowruz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What is yamato people? I'm persian , l love to know about another people and ethnic-tribes in the world !

    • @mirnowruz
      @mirnowruz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fvckoff2698 you mean that the Japanese are ethically Korean (or close to them) ?

    • @mirnowruz
      @mirnowruz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@fvckoff2698 you mean that Japanese are different from Korean people genetically? I don't think so ... Although meybe there's a little differences in their genome , but totally East-northern Asians are the same ethnic groups .

  • @EngPheniks
    @EngPheniks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm not Japanese, but from what I read, the Ainu are the original people of Japan whose ancestry traces back to the prehistoric Jomon period. The majority today is Yayoi group of people with Chinese and Korean influence.

  • @snooks5607
    @snooks5607 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    4:33 oww. always kinda hurts to see recent videos out of Japan talking about the coming 2020 olympics. it would've been great I'm sure, hopefully things get better next year

    • @dantes1393
      @dantes1393 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      True, I hope so too brotha

  • @niccoarcadia4179
    @niccoarcadia4179 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Preservation & heightened awareness/dignity of small cultures within a larger culture are occurring around the world. Pride in one's heritage is important to a persons personal ego. Just like Native Americans, Irish Celts, and Native Hawaiians before them I applaud each group for exposing violence, language manipulation, genocide and group domination. I hope the proud Ainu's can revive their language. The hope is within the young.

  • @takashiadachi7938
    @takashiadachi7938 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Hello, it is a common misconception that all Ainu looked "Caucasian" or were very hairy. There were always many Ainu which looked typically Northeast Asian or like Inuit (long before we Japanese arrived in Hokkaido). The Ainu language itself descended from the Okhotsk culture and people which looked like Itelmens or Yakuts. Ainu history is very complex and for the sake of respect, it should be noted that the people speaking proto-Ainu and the Ainu culture largely originated from the Okhotsk, which were related to other Northeast Asians and eastern Siberians. Also, is is a common misconception that all Ainu have haplogroup D. Southern Ainu have it predominantly at 75%, while northern Hokkaido Ainu have more C (the same clade as Athabaskans in northern America).

    • @zlonewolf
      @zlonewolf ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If you see Ainu looking east Asian its becos they're no longer pure and even the "pure" Ainu you see here are heavily mixed Japanese/Korean.
      The original Ainu is similar looking to Native Americans.
      They were never any doubt that they're Asian but not the same group as the Japanese or Koreans.
      They are nomads and have thousands of years of history and lived off the lands and are displaced people that will one day be assimilated completely and ceased to exist.

    • @jayy1980
      @jayy1980 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@zlonewolfyou talk out your arse, all natives have East Asian blood, ALL. That’s why so many natives look Chinese. I say again, ALL natives have East Asian blood.

  • @grsd8069
    @grsd8069 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I only learned about Ainu today, and I am very curious to learn more about the culture. I am Native Hawaiian (by blood) and was taught about my culture. Also, I was exposed to some of the culture of the First Nations in Canada. So, this is very intriguing.

  • @Momo-ve1ft
    @Momo-ve1ft 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    人間が進歩して行くと先人達が生きてきたこの地球の事を再学習するようになって、今更ながらその先人達の生きる知恵や技術に驚嘆することが多くなるそうです、世界の先住民といわれる人々が置いてけぼりを感じるような世の中ではまだその国は進歩していないということです、私も日本人としてアイヌの伝統文化や知恵を学ぶと、すごいなと感じる事が多くてなぜそのことを今まで知らなかったかと反省もするんです。カナダの博物館で、アメリカの博物館で、見た先住民コーナーは充実していました。

  • @72vince27
    @72vince27 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Truly a interesting culture

  • @Kyleking444
    @Kyleking444 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    These Beautiful people deserve more respect

  • @GehkGekhe
    @GehkGekhe 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It is obvious that the Japanese government in period 1870s wanted a homogenous nation - united under a single banner, to ensure its stability for years to come. For that though, there was no need to destroy Ainu culture. They should have let the Ainu preserve their traditional way of living, with open offers of free will to integrate into much more sofisticated Japanese society. In that sense, by keeping friendly relations with the Ainu - they would also keep the homogenosity of the nation. That is maybe a more complex way of handling with indigenous population, but certainly a more humane. For the danger of Ainu wanting independence, I believe there would be not - as long as the Ainu look at Japan as also their home and their nation, not their colonizers.

  • @Noname-iz9uo
    @Noname-iz9uo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    " This is the punishment from mother nature "- Nakoruru

  • @SilencedButNotForgotten
    @SilencedButNotForgotten 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ainu came from Central Asia and are distant relatives (50k~) of the Caucasoid groups that would later move to Europe.
    They have recently mixed with the modern Japanese population following globalization and the end of isolation and separation.

    • @yz2374
      @yz2374 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      they are not caucasoid lol

  • @yashinjamshidi3404
    @yashinjamshidi3404 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Did you know Ainus were the same Aryans from the northern plateau of Great Iran who migrated to northern Japan in the distant past?

  • @JohnsonAgbinya
    @JohnsonAgbinya 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The story of Ainu in Japan is intriguing to me as my mother comes from Ainu in middle Nigeria. Ainu in Nigeria is a clan among the Igede speaking people in Benue State Nigeria. Is this an accident to have the Ainu Japan story and a thriving Ainu people in Nigeria? It is worth investigating

  • @gabrielgarcia579
    @gabrielgarcia579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Clothes from Ainu people, certenly reminds me of my country rainforest people.

  • @TheSeptuagint
    @TheSeptuagint ปีที่แล้ว

    The Ainu fashion is one of the most beautiful in all human civilization

  • @humanityshare9318
    @humanityshare9318 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    We should all revert back to the Indigenous way of life.

    • @Emsyaz
      @Emsyaz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      True, its healthier to our body, mind and spirit.

    • @jehgelo
      @jehgelo 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      True nature

    • @Alex-mc5yn
      @Alex-mc5yn 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Emsyaz if it were healthier, we would've had longer lifespans than back then. But we didn't.

    • @Emsyaz
      @Emsyaz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Alex-mc5yn Longer lifespan doesnt indicate healthier life.
      Many people now suffer from chronic diseases and mental health issues.

    • @Alex-mc5yn
      @Alex-mc5yn 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then what do you think is the indicator? Just because people didn't know the names and treatments for these illnesses or didn't live long enough to get them doesn't mean they were healthier. Modern medicine improves the quality of life for people with chronic illnesses. It also cures or prevents the transmittable diseases, including the ones that wiped out so many indigenous people.
      Mental illnesses were first described and attempted to be treated over 8 thousand years ago. There are preserved papyri in which ancient Egyptians have described mental disorders, this is not a recent development. These same papyri described several chronic illnesses. In fact, one of them, arthritis was the most common aliment in ancient people, and yes, in indigenous people as well.

  • @忍者猫-b8d
    @忍者猫-b8d 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The Ainu and their ancestors the Jomon people are the native Japanese. They originated somewhere in modern Central-Asia.
    The Japanese scientist specialist in Biological Anthropology Noriko Seguchi of the Kyushu University claims that the Jomon people were a proto-Caucasoid people that originated in Central-Asia or Siberia.
    Newest genetic studies (since 2017) conclude that the Jomon are the last descedants of an unique group of ancient people. The study suggests an ancient origin in modern Central Asia.

  • @john_h0n378
    @john_h0n378 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    It makes me sad to see a indigenous culture loosing there ways, and one of my indigenous cultures are extinct now cause they've lost the language and been killed off and taken as slaves by there own relatives, I come from both of them, the extinct one, and its relatives, so I guess I'm saying I hate loosing a indigenous culture cause it links us to a spiritual connection to our ancestors.

    • @boxbird5723
      @boxbird5723 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is Maori a dying culture?

    • @a.v.j5664
      @a.v.j5664 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@boxbird5723 yes

  • @aylyi-huh9355
    @aylyi-huh9355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    cheers from Korea

  • @wfcoaker1398
    @wfcoaker1398 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    How are the Japanese not indigenous to Japan as well? Japan has at least 2 indigenous people.

    • @tomassmith1519
      @tomassmith1519 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You know what they mean

    • @wfcoaker1398
      @wfcoaker1398 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @tomassmith1519 No I don't. The more primitive? The ones whose ancestors didn't write down how they got there? The ones who most resemble the people called "indigenous" by Americans? I suspect it's a combo of all three. Especially the last one. Americans think their culture is everybody's culture.

    • @tomassmith1519
      @tomassmith1519 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@wfcoaker1398 ok, I get your point. Especially since I am not from the US. But btw, "american" is everybody who lives in the Americas, not just in the US

  • @Echosinfireify
    @Echosinfireify 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is amazing, had no idea

  • @sage9499
    @sage9499 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thank you golden kamuy, for educating me about this cultures

  • @othercarib
    @othercarib 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The garment she is displaying at 1:42 reminds me of some of the Haida Indian designs from coastal BC Canada.

  • @niki-kun2827
    @niki-kun2827 ปีที่แล้ว

    LONG LIVE AINU and all indigeneous tribe around the world ,

  • @yakuza2184
    @yakuza2184 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Save the tai culture. A request from assam, india. Ainu are tai people. Aigatogozaimash'u🙏

  • @mozambique9113
    @mozambique9113 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If you dont fight for your land and your culture, you will soon end up lost in time.

  • @picodegallio3255
    @picodegallio3255 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very educational vid. This info was very new to me, thank you.

  • @saudisinaudis
    @saudisinaudis 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had the pleasure of being in Hokkaido in 2019 and visited the museum of the ainu and nivkh people. Very sad history from both the Japanese and Russians. Sadly most are only genetically loosely related due to mixing over time however nice to learn the culture is being preserved in some way!

  • @leandrovieiraalves8988
    @leandrovieiraalves8988 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    They are very similar to indigenous people in Brazil. Especially the music.

  • @HiNinqi
    @HiNinqi 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is the intro song ainu music?

  • @TubeYouTakashi
    @TubeYouTakashi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We all Japanese should be having the Aninu Calture as part of Japanese and keep it.

    • @Merry19ss
      @Merry19ss 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Como la van a mantener si total los Japoneses Mongolicos asesinaron al pueblo nativo de Japón los Ainu tenían rasgos europeos no mongolicos ,los que tienen rasgos mongolicos ya son Ainus mezclados.

  • @Mihawk1848
    @Mihawk1848 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Golden kamuy brought me here. Citatap, osoma and hinna, lol. Love the way their respect for nature was described in the manga.

  • @electricdreamer
    @electricdreamer 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    They look like Navajo people in America.

  • @akiranara9392
    @akiranara9392 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's wrong and misleading. Ainu aren't Caucasoid, but Mongoloid. Ainu, came to Hokkaido from north Sakhalin in 13th century known as recent DNA analysis by University of Hokkaido, aren't indigenous people like Native Indians in America or Aborigine in Australia. Ainu are completely different from those indigenous people at all. Moreover, Indigenous Proto-Japanese is now paid attention to its probability of relation to "First Americans" before 17,000 years ago. Main stream Japanese people had lived continuously in northern island Hokkaido since 35~30,000 years ago, proved by more than 700 initial paleolithic sites in Hokkaido far before Ainu came in. sunda-wind,net

  • @dingolingo6188
    @dingolingo6188 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My fathers family descend from Ainu, then eventually ended in Liberdade

  • @MDG-mykys
    @MDG-mykys ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What's the difference between Ainu and the other Japanese ethnicities?

    • @kairicat856
      @kairicat856 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ainu are indigenous and yayoi which is what most modern japanese are originated from other parts of east asia

  • @ErnestoTani
    @ErnestoTani 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Ainu culture is very beautiful.

  • @kushagermaithani8871
    @kushagermaithani8871 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well ainu are indigenous people of Hokkaido island of Japan not of entire Japan because Japan is a island nation.
    The group of people migrate first to a specific place are indigenous of that land . Yamato people were first to migrate in southern islands of Japan.

  • @brycepardoe658
    @brycepardoe658 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Should I go to Japan I want to see the Ainu culture.

  • @AnOriginalYouTuber
    @AnOriginalYouTuber 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Its amazing how European they look. I'd look at the last girl and think she's a Westerner who grew up in Japan.

    • @automnejoy5308
      @automnejoy5308 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They look like a cross between Siberian and West Asian/Caucasian. Ancient relation that goes back to the Pleistocene.

    • @nanotektor
      @nanotektor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Actually looks like a typical, prettish Mexican girl from central Mexico (San Luis Potosí)

    • @mehmeh7052
      @mehmeh7052 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      For me, she looks like a lightskin australian aboriginal or indigenous taiwanese . I don’t see any European in her.

    • @broks689
      @broks689 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mehmeh7052 stop claim

    • @yz2374
      @yz2374 ปีที่แล้ว

      they were so called black not caucasoid

  • @emperorinmu4199
    @emperorinmu4199 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    indigenous in Japan ×
    indigenous in Hokkaido ○
    Do not mislead

  • @kelor
    @kelor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We, europeans see japanese people as more related to us than any other people of Asia. The characteriatics of japanese are european. Ainus' too. The girl singing in 3.45 has no difference from a european girl, apart an idea of asian eyes only seen in her profile.

  • @dacianamerican8823
    @dacianamerican8823 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ainu is love. Never give up on you.

  • @cleric8543
    @cleric8543 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They are similar to head hunter tribe in Borneo Island.,are they have connections? Their custom are familiar to me.

  • @sparklingwater-of7sq
    @sparklingwater-of7sq ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hope everyone understand the indigenous in Japan is the Jomon. The title itself is very much deceving. The Jomon spreaded all over the Japanese archipelago including Hokkaido. The Jomon lived really peacefully for about 20,000 years. Then the Yayoi (possibly people from Korea and China) migrated to the main land Japan. They were more aggressive and the Jomon were massacred, raped, and assimilated. At this time, the Yayoi didnt move to Hokkaido, so there were still the Jomons lived in the area. It is only about 500 years ago, the Ainu appeared in Hokkaido. It is because the Okhotsk people moved down south and moved to Hokkaido. Again the Jomon were killed, raped and assimilated to the Okhotsk and now we had very new ethnic called the Ainu. So the Ainu is definitely not indigenous of Japan. Hell no.
    Eventually, the Ainu was also invaded by the mainland Japnese. They lost their language (no one speaks the language now) and culture. Many of them look exactly like average Japanese now. There is no definition of who the Ainu is. You dont have to prove how much the Ainu blood you have so even some Chinese people have claimed they are the Ainu. By claiming their ethnicity as the Ainu, you get access to government's huge funding. You get job....like dancing, teaching language class by a teacher who speak very broken Ainu language (Everyone is now learning the Ainu language just like you learn English)....honestly its all about money now. You can make extra cash by claiming yourself being the Ainu....thats all about this "the Ainu, Japan's indigenous people".

  • @andrelecozvideographer9030
    @andrelecozvideographer9030 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i cant explain exactly why but i cried watching this

  • @jbiliHacker
    @jbiliHacker 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    i'm literally here because if Golden Kamuy. you should give credit to the mangaka, he's totally saving you.

  • @MrProfGenius
    @MrProfGenius 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Nakoruru brought me here

  • @ianavegnon856
    @ianavegnon856 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They have the same tone like Uchinaguchi 😮

  • @roroforo5092
    @roroforo5092 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i like how those countries talking about human rights are the one that committed genocide against native people. the US, australia, canada, japan.

  • @salvadorvillanueva6229
    @salvadorvillanueva6229 ปีที่แล้ว

    Golden Kamuy forced me to search about Ainu and to know more about them

  • @brentlyjb23
    @brentlyjb23 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They're Dangun People related to Ancient Pueblo and Navajo Danae Indians.

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann8969 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ainu's are better treated now then they use to be

  • @T.S.1020
    @T.S.1020 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    All cultures have the right to exist.

  • @navajo6931
    @navajo6931 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Jarai love INu

  • @Supermariocrosser
    @Supermariocrosser ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yayoi civiliation : tatamae
    Jomon civiliation : honne

  • @user-xj7rc6fp6b
    @user-xj7rc6fp6b 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fact check: Ainu people are NOT indigenous to Japan. They fled Sakhalin to Hokkaido because they lost the battle against Mongols. This happened around mid 13th. That’s when Ainus refuged to Hokkaido first time and gradually assimilated with true indigenous pepole who had been living there since Jomon period. The fact no remnants Ainu people built or created haven’t been unearthed yet backs it up.

  • @ruatapachuau182
    @ruatapachuau182 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Harsh truth about this world is that the majority always gets the opportunity and the minority always gets the bad things. As a tribal, it is very painful to hear and see our lands being stolen away from us and our siblings being killed.

  • @mendokusegaki8102
    @mendokusegaki8102 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Here after reading golden kamuy....
    Pretty good culture....