The Ainu's Tense Relationship with Japan
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- The Despised Ainu People (1994): An insightful report on racial discrimination in Japan.
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Synopsis: A small boy denies his Ainu ancestry for fear of being bullied in a society where conformity is valued above all else. The Ainu people of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, different in appearance and language, have suffered more than a century of discrimination. They are denied their traditional fishing rights, their sacred sites are being destroyed and tourists come to gawk at their culture in museums. Now, the Ainu are fighting back. They have at last won a seat in the Japanese parliament and many are re-learning the Ainu tongue. The Ainu are struggling to preserve their unique heritage in the face of an urbanised and uncaring modern Japan.
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This program is old, but I'm pleased to update that in April 2019, Japan passed a bill officially recognizing the Ainu of Hokkaido as an indigenous people of Japan. And the Ainu will participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic games 2020 in Japan.
no they wont
"im pleased to update" fucking hell it only took 30 years
Yo covid bro this is not aged well lol
They already non existent lol. It only took couple of thousand years.
Nobody cares to the ainu people, when my son was in elementary I ask him about ainu, he said "Loving Dogs" I was dumbfounded.
I am a mainland Japanese who has been living in the so called Indian country of the USA. I see the similarities in people anywhere from northern Russia all the way down to south America. We have 3 native American tribes in our state. The culture is very similar throughout. I respect their languages and the way of life. Japanese people should be very proud of Ainu people.
Ainu and Ryukyuan may be distinct from Japanese, but they're all living in the same country, might as well work together to make the nation better.
What should they be proud of? They simply had better resources, and options to choose from, while the Ainu were hunter-gatherer. Morals do not exist when it comes to bettering your civilization. What is japan gonna do, be like “So sorry for making japan a greatly superior place, at the small price of your visibly inferior civilization.”? No.
@@mingchenwei1978
you sharmoota copy and paste
@@mingchenwei1978 Japan is going to give the Ainu autonomy but I understand that that's a stretch when Japanese politicians are getting assassinated by their own people.
@@mingchenwei1978japan is mid af, how's it superior?
Much love from a Maori from New Zealand.
Same here, Maori too
The Maori only came to New Zealand in the 1300s, only a few hundred years before Europeans.
Thank you so guys!!
I’m a Ainu.
@@jakethekaratedude200 "europeans" is not even a real ethnicity or continent. Your pseudo-ethnicity lie about everything.
@@you-cf7df I never said Europeans are an ethnicity. I just stated a fact that unlike Native Americans and Aboriginal Australians, who have been in their respective lands for tens of thousands of years, the Maori arrived in New Zealand only just before the start of the European Age of Discovery with the accompanying colonialism. Also, look up what the Maori did the the Chatham Islander Natives and to fauna like the Moa, the largest bird ever.
This sort of thing happened around the world. Proves that the ability to defend your homeland is important because it can be easily taken from you.
Ignorance is in every culture.
Especially the culture of capitalism and colonization , the ignorance is so high that they destroy their own mother earth
@@FrontWood What should they be proud of? They simply had better resources, and options to choose from, while the Ainu were hunter-gatherer. Morals do not exist when it comes to bettering your civilization. What is japan gonna do, be like “So sorry for making japan a greatly superior place, at the small price of your visibly inferior civilization.”? No.
Cambodians almost went through the same thing because of the Vietnamese. 75% of our lands were taken by Thailand and Vietnam. Google the Khmer empire map and you'll see. We feel for you Ainus.
I saw a Khmer empire in a game before :O Not sure what game it was but I saw that thing before I know
Shan Shin how about cham kingdom?? Right niw they becime minorities in their own land
When they say "the eyes glaze over" I have seen that look a hundred times here and it means "I know that I am supposed to feel bad about this but I am afraid that I will receive social punishment from my peers for supporting the rights of those outside of the in-group." It's not that there are no people that feel sympathetic, they are just too cowardly to help, which in my opinion is worse that those that persist in the discrimination.
This is very similar to Native Americans in the US and Austrailia
I can totally see it as well, coming from a Native American myself.
+Hajime The same applies to Sami who live in northern Scandinavia, Norway, Sweden and Finand
+Ahmed Nur Khaire Not sure what you mean but I wanna make one thing clear: Scandinavians are native to the southern and central parts of Scandinavia while the Saami came thousands of years later from the North.
We Norwegians have lived on Norwegian land far longer than the Saami, making US the natives of our lands(basically up to Helgeland in the North). It does however make the Saami native to their land in the far North(From Finnmark to the Southern/central parts of Nordland) and the far inland's of Central Norway.
+Nico By... No one is native in the Nordic countries, all are coming from Africa from the beginning. What I mean is that the treatment of the Sami in mordern time in Norway, Sweden and Finand was horrible.
+Hajime And Mexico.
I couldn't be happier to see Ainu culture surviving within Japan.
sometimes it is good to see an old documentary, as Kayano Shigeru is no longer with us. I remember meeting him in 2000, while living in Hokkaido. This doc brought back some precious memories! Thank you journeymanpictures!
before accusing japan, Australia should take care of their aboriginal people.they are severely discriminated against in australia.
The Australians give the Aboriginals billions each year to improve their situation. Despite this assistance the aboriginals have serious problems with drugs/alcohol and violence. If you have ever lived in an Aboriginal community like I have you would disagree.
Agreed
from australia
whataboutism at its finest
We can accuse and critize both ;) Every country did bad things in the past. It's not like we cant critize Japan's actions
no one is accusing japan of anything
I respect Ainu because I know they are really beautiful people:3
Cantonese Taishanese I think she means "beautiful people" as in beautiful culture rather than what they look like.
@@komarobin560What should they be ashamed of? They simply had better resources, and options to choose from, while the Ainu were hunter-gatherer. Morals do not exist when it comes to bettering your civilization. What is japan gonna do, be like “So sorry for making japan a greatly superior place, at the small price of your visibly inferior civilization.”? No.
@@komarobin560Also, stop lying to yourself lmao. Ainu are ugly af.
Journeyman usually doesn't provide subtitles so this was nice.
Rest In Peace Shigeru Kayano.
not too different than how the migrating europeans treated the native americans back in the 1700's and still somewhat today.
You have no idea what your talking about. Many white Americans revere indians, and are quick to claim ancestry with at least one. I am mostly euroamerican, but I have 2 Indian ancestors coming into my family tree from two different sources at two different time periods, and we are proud of them Indian ancestors as we are our European ones. It's so sad self hating white people like you generalize like a bigot about your own people. Why do you hate yourself? Love yourself, don't teach your children to hate themselves. Make sure they love themselves. It's no wonder that some affluent, educated white kids still have all these neurotic afflictions, they're taught to hate themselves by parents like you, the media, other races and each other, for the ones that love themselves despise the ones that hate themselves, and it's a huge split in the Euroamerican and European community. The right and the left. Stop the hate, start the love!
Brandon Wright sure, it was a generalization, but i think it unwise to ignore or gloss over the atrocities the native american people faced when america was being formed. and i love all the assumptions you've made about me. i'm not even a parent and i said nothing about hate or not loving yourself. but, i assume you're just a troll so i'll stop now.
Brandon Wright except that you're the troll here. i am thankful for my ancestors actually. a lot of people aren't. nationalism is still terrible.
Also not too different from the way Mongols treated Europeans, or North African Muslims treated Europeans, or Slavs treated Europeans, or Incans treated Mayans, or Turks treated Armenians, etc, etc, etc.
bevrosity We are more alike than we are unalike.
The awkward moment when a New Zealander does the report and his country is no better at addressing Indigenous issues.
Dude it's just the way of the world, and the Maori are the most aggressive I've met of all peoples
In the Ainu language, that instrument is called mukkuri, mukkur, muhkun, or mukku depending on the dialect.
Japanese are mixtures of Yayoi from Nothern China and Native Ainus, Kumaso and Hayato
Yamato originated from Northern China i think...
Ahad Altaf Sherjee yes
Japanese came from Sun race.
Kumaso and Hayato are only present in south of Japan i.e. Okinawa.
very informative
It makes me wonder about how things may have been under Himiko and the Yayoi period of Japan.
Tourist gawk at their culture in museums? I saw an Ainu exhibit in the Museum of Natural History in NYC and I was completely fascinated by it...
I'm very sorry for what the Ainu have gone through. Stand proud!
great video
Nicely said.
The Ainu I see in older pictures look much more distinct from the rest of the Japanese, e.g. taller, broader shoulders, vastly more hirsute, etc. The ones in this video look more like their southern neighbours, though a bit darker skinned and more robust in their cranial anatomy. Is it widely accepted that the Ainu population of today is significantly more mixed with Yamato Japanese? That's certainly the case with the indigenous peoples of the US, Australia, etc.
Hi, currently studying Ainu music and couldnt help but reply even 7 years later - due to policy outlawing Ainu cultural practices for a while, fewer and fewer people identified with their Ainu ancestry and married with mainland Japanese, but it has also always been the case that mainland Japanese were able to marry into Ainu communities and Ainu also adopted mainland Japanese children in the past. So yes, they have become very mixed at this point.
Taller? There's this one picture of a Yamato Japanese man standing with two Ainu couples and he tower over both of them.
The first history book of Japan was written by a Chinese historian before 250 AD. And it said: on Japan's east, months voyage sail, still lives Japanese. And on Japan's south west, a year's sailing, lives Japanese with black teeth. That means 1800 years ago, those people living on Japan islands may similar to native living in Philippine ,Australia and other native pacific islanders. The figure of ancient Japanese must be totally different from Japanese today.
What I mean is: face it, you are just Chinese. LMAO
tianba wang Japanese people came China, but that doesn't mean they're Chinese. That's like Americans being called British because they started off as British colonies.
+Spectral Stranger2 Actually most white Americans are of a more recent German immigrant stock, not of British(English, Irish, etc....) lineages..........
Mythic Dawn
That's true, you can see it in the facial structures sometimes, but I was just referring to the country that started the settlements here in the region of North America we call the US. Then you've got the Hispanic, African, and French lineages that come a little later too
Present Gene technology made it clear that there is the biggest trench between Japanese DNA and Chinese one, not present but ancient.
Japanese DNA is also different from Koreans.
Japanese DNA is near Tibetan.
So what type of characters did the Ainu use? Did they use kana? hiragana/ katakana? Wondering, since the kana are made up by syllables (one consonant and one vowel).
This a great video
Yamato, Ainu, and Okinawans are ancient Jomon people with the same Jomon genes (haplogroup D). The Jomon period lasted for 10,000 years, there were no wars, and everyone lived in peace and harmony. After the Jomon period, during the Yayoi period, the Yamato Jomon people were invaded by military immigrants from the Korean Peninsula and China, and the Yamato Jomon people mixed with them and became Yayoi people. As a result, mixed-race Yayoi people became physically different from Ainu people, but that doesn't change the fact that both Ainu people and general Yamato people are Japanese. The Ainu people have assimilated into the Japanese population, and most people do not even know that they have Ainu blood. There are almost no pure Ainu people left in Japan.
am i wrong if i say that japanese that we see now was chinese/korean mix ainu? can someone tell me more about ancestor of japanese people ? correct me if im wrong..
Yes, respect other cultures, but when those other cultures incorporate cruelty such as Spanish bullfighting, British fox hunting, Japanese or Faroese whaling, Chinese or Vietnamese dog eating, Norwegian or Canadian seal hunting, then something needs to be done (peacefully) to end those aspects of a culture.
What should they be ashamed of? They simply had better resources, and options to choose from, while the Ainu were hunter-gatherer. Morals do not exist when it comes to bettering your civilization. What is japan gonna do, be like “So sorry for making japan a greatly superior place, at the small price of your visibly inferior civilization.”? No.
I believe a lot of them in Japan are mixed now though. Its rarer to find pure Ainu than mixed I expect.
Yes, pure Ainu was died out by end of 19th century.
At present, never a quarter nor a quarter of a quarter exist.
Existence of Ainu is not based on blood nor DNA, but political illusion.
Association of Ainu defines Ainu is people who believe they are Ainu.
Ainu --A national treasure Treat them as such --Respect.
Richard Mason not just Ainu, the ancient peoples as well as the indigenous who survived all these years of colonization and modernization are one of Earth's national treasures
Subtitles way too small. Other than that, nice.
Does anyone still speak Ainu at home?
Kid Chef only a few hundreds, I hear. It's sad
1994 is almost a full generation ago. This really needs to be updated.
Im aware the Ainu used on thier arrow tips a plant called Monkshood. From what i have read its a powerful poison which can paralyze and kill the game. I assume on bows with less than a 30pound draw and game too large to take down an arrow wouldnt have enough power to incapacitate the prey quick enough. By any chance do you think the arrow used to kill the bear during the ritual was coated in Monkshood?
I find the Ainu to be a fascinating people. I pray that they continue as a people, and not become absorbed by the overwhelming Japanese nation.
So what is their situation now, 18 years later?
Excellent .
You have to fight it, we all have rights and a nation so developed can not disown his people for different Ethnicity and language.
unfortunately they are dying breed. when i look that woman, no wonder japanese looks so different. they have somewhat ainu blood. e.g. nose, skin, eye brow feature. that is why they look different from chinese and korean because japanese has east asian and ainu lineage.
a trivia, they got karinding, a musical instrument that sunda people of Indonesia have.
Very interesting indeed. Sad that the Ainu native language is deteriorating.
Very interesting. I was always under the impression that Japan was almost homogeneous.
I want to learn Ainu but don't have the resources :( Hope the language is revitalised.
fuck you.
Bill Gates Fuck you Bill Gates! I don't care if you made Windows for shit to come through. Gay off you little bollocks!
Tomos Burton
ainu-worshipping piece of shit.
I'm warning you, if you keep on I will swear!
+Bill Gates what's up your ass?
I congratulate you. I study languages but I am not good at it.
That's the price that you have to pay when you don't belong to a dominant group, I'm a black man and I understand this. Ainu people are the original people of Japan,c'mon !!! end this discrimination
12:19 Not just Hokkaido northeastern Honshu island as well as southern Sakhalin island and the Kuril Islands and the Kamchatka peninsula.
how can you speak english so good toki?
wonderful
You know it's the '90s when you see a glossy gunmetal-colored audio cassette player.
I know this kind of people conflict well, i am from Sweden, living on the border of Sapmi
I have to admit, it's a sad state of affairs when you have a migrating force of one population moving over one area, they instantly compete with the natives and either intermingle or wipe them out, rarely are they driven off. The Ainu are no different then any other people, rich culture, history, and atypically prejudiced again. My ancestors went through several phases like this too, and eventually they too became a new people who would subjugate others, it's sad, but it's human nature.
What I say needs more details. Original Japanese were Jomon tribe. Then Yayoi tribe came to Japan from the continent. Jomon face larger nose and larger eyes with double-edged eyelid. Yayoi has thinner eye with out eyelid and more flat face structure. Okinawan is Polynesian, Indigenous people in Hokkaido is Ainu. Basically, today's Japanese are all mixed. The main mix is between Jomon and Yayoi tribe This is a very rough description.
@kentaokabe
well said
journeyman has become more about recycling docos for $
Chinese, Korean, and Yayoi Japanese on the other hand, they belong to haplogroup O-M175, which is a younger haplogroup, approximately 35000 to 40000 years old. Haplogroup O is descended from the Eurasian macro-haplogroup NOP.
Haplogroup O have many subclades. Japanese and Korean belongs to o1b2 and Chinese belongs to o2, they're different.
maybe the Ainu were there before the Japanese and same thing happening here in the U.S with people who were here first
Hummm, you just proved my point... Thank you. I didn't get the 'burst your bubble' comment, but you just said what I said with another words...
As a Japanese, let me tell you that the Ainu people are NOT despised. They are embraced as the original individuals of Hokkaido and the northern islands. However, the reasons of why their population is decreasing, is because more and more Ainu people have assimilated with the Japanese people (Yamato people) as a whole. The Ainu are loved, and will never be despised. This documentary is 17 years old, it is NOT modern Japan.
Just wondering if the Ainu people have a voice to parliament yet ?
why this video seems too old
jay fawn 10 years ago
I m horrified by this treatment towards Ainus
@MichaelKrary I believe most of the Ainu were driven off from the Honshu and most sought refuge on the island of Hokkaido. They are a disappearing ethnic group and have practically disappeared from most of Japan except from kanto region and Hokkaido.
What the Ainu say is all true, their land was stolen by the Japanese. But for them to admit this would be a huge blow to their own national view of what it means to be a Japaense. Let's say that the Ainu would want to have a independent Hokkaido, this would mean that the size of the Japanese nation would become smaller. Think about it, this is a problem that will never go away.
Not, they are related to Andoman Island people. I think that makes them partly austronesian.
I was writing for " Ainu, First People of Japan, The Original..." Not " The Despised Ainu People-Japan " Why did my post ended up here instead ?
Oh they are sooo nice!
Largest haplotypes
Japanese D1b(35%) O1b(32%) O2(20%)
Ainu D1b(87.5%) C2(12.5%)
The Ainu look like partly Japanese and partly southeast asian to me. In any case, the people look more better health than the indigenous people of other western countries.
Wow. I didnt know that such discrimination existed towards the Ainu.
Discrimination happens in all countries so the Europeans and Americans have no room to criticize. None at all.
They seem like they have an interesting culture.
I don't know why you deleted that last comment because I agree with that one
One interesting point though is that the Ainu were granted Japanese citizenship very early in the piece. This may sound good on the surface but it effectively destroyed their claims of native title and also destroyed their culture at the same time.
I have lived in Hokkaido for the last 15 and a half years and I have to say the govt is making some effort to revive the culture.Maybe too little too late but ....
ok..we learn something new everyday
Just as nawatls or mayans in México. Modern world has been trying to erradicate the distinct ways of live for centuries.
The language revival is like the movement of the Gaelic League of the 1890's when the Irish language nearly disappeared and is still in a precarious position being spoken fluently by only 100,000 of Ireland's 6 million people.
He sounds like an Australian as well.
in old photographs their appearance kinda looks like a combination between the Norse vikings, Eastern Europeans, Arabs, Indians, Inuit, and Asian. so i wonder if they are a hybrid ethnicity or separate ethnicity all together
Paul Kraft hmm, well i once remember a quote that went "Inuit and Japanese are cousins to each other," maybe there was something deeper to it than i first thought
As always, I am forced to bow to the superior reasoning and eloquence of the Vozhd!
@MichaelKrary I found somewhere that the ainu have more in common with the aboriginals, papuans, and melanesians than caucasian people.
Golden kamuy bring me here
The rituals remind me of native Americans.
since you called Vietnamese inferios, I will take a guess, you're Korean, right? or Korean born American, or "real" Korean who has pretty good english.
I found a fun game that's inspired by the ainu called Chepnu: Bluffing game From Meko Card Games, its alot of fun and it has Ainu words and art
They are hated for the assumption that they are less, it tends to happened in many countries, to many indigenous peoples. As if we all grew from cities, people all came from rural areas. If you aren't proud of who you are, or where your ancestors came from, then you will always feel like you have to pretend to be something your not.
You can't conform to a world that does not know who it is, and can't respect who people are. "if the world is harsh, will you influence it, or let it influence you"
also, wtf are they doing with that por bear.... i know it was/is tradition but that's pretty cruel.
this is your 2nd account? you said you have 3 acc on youtube?
Alter ego of kothfan?
How could the not want to learn about their own history 😢😢😢 i don't understand, i was raised in Tasmania Australia to believe Japan was wise and kind, is that only to outsiders? And not their own 🥺😖😒💔.
The Ainu remind me so much of the Native American Indians.
All four of Ham's sons and their descendants settled in and around the continent of Africa, this includes the so called Middle East which is also a part of the Continent of Africa. Ham sons are the people of the African continent, the Ancient Egyptians, Ethiopians, Somalia's, Canaanites etc.
4:00 just playing with the food before eating it, and it's a fucking bear!
Every country has its own version of this type of atrocity:(
What should they be ashamed of? They simply had better resources, and options to choose from, while the Ainu were hunter-gatherer. Morals do not exist when it comes to bettering your civilization. What is japan gonna do, be like “So sorry for making japan a greatly superior place, at the small price of your visibly inferior civilization.”? No.
Japanese are the Huns....hehe
According to Aynu culture all animals are celestial spirits that took an animal form,when they sacrifice the animal they make a ritual in order to free it's soul and return in the evens.
I just think that this is a beautiful thing.
Thanks the hevens japan is now less intollerant to them...many japanese decided to defend and help the aynus,there is even a spiritual practice named koshinto that decided to take is roots in aynu culture
I am a Greenlander. We were colonized by Denmark, became Christians and had to conform to the rule of the Danes. Those of us who live here in Denmark as a minority, are among the most disrespected groups, next to Muslims and gypsies...:-(
Ham had four sons,
1. CUSH (Ethiopians / Cushites & Nubians),
2. MIZRAIM (Egyptians / Khemet),
3. PHUT (Ancient Libyans or Somalia),
4. CANAAN (Canaanite, the original inhabitants of the land of Israel) genesis 10:6-19.
They say that the Ainu are of Polynesian ancestry originally.
I wonder who removed that odd comment that I was about to reply to. If it was you, Erdogan Bagatur, then I guess you were wondering what was going through your head when you wrote it as much as I was. The thing with removing comments is that the person commented to still gets the comment sent to their inbox.
how were they affected by fukishima?
Why is Journeyman digging old documentaries talking about differences between ppl.