More wajin, or ethnic Japanese ... Ainu language as “critically endangered”. Upopoy is the Ainu term for “singing in a large group”. The new complex also features a traditional village ...

which stated the Ainu are an indigenous people. The report defined indigenous peoples as ethnic groups that have continued to reside with a culture and identity that is different from the ethnic ...

The book is deemed as the first Ainu folklore put into print directly by a member of the ethnic group, which does not have its own written language system. In the work’s preface, Chiri describes ...