The Ainu - Japan's Forgotten People | The Real Japan | HD

[@vee1766]

I don't know how faithful and respectful it is of the Ainu culture and History it is but the anime Golden Kamuy brought me here.

[@botmexicanpatriot]

If I'm not wrong Satoru is descendant of ainu, or that's what ive read??

[@blues1m]

@@botmexicanpatriot No way.... That would make a lot of sense.

[@MrFoxInc]

@@botmexicanpatriot At the very least he has someone he consults about language and probably cultural elements too when writing: Nakagawa Hiroshi.

[@Cybernaut551]

I enjoy Golden Kamuy, as well.

[@ListerTube]

Hopefully, more Ainu people will continue learning and speaking their mother's tongue again and continue on with some of their traditions.

[@TheRealJapan]

Let's hope so Viv. You might like to read this post about the Ainu: www.therealjapan.com/the-ainu-japans-forgotten-people/

[@blues1m]

I agree with you. I believe in the Ainu people! There have been great success with Maori people in Aotearoa despite the long-lasting effects of colonization. I hope the same for the Ainu (of Sakhalin, Kuril Islands, and Hokkaido).

[@はばたく-m4e]

There is no pure Ainu people lol.

[@matthewmann8969]

They are being more remembered now

[@TheRealJapan]

That has to be a good thing.

[@haritsdarwienm5886]

Nice

[@legbreaker]

I'm Japanese with Ainu blood. I visited Bilbao back in 1990 .. as a workvisit. Beautiful City and I noticed something strange, since I never heard about the Basque language before..I recognized too many words, especially when written down. To me it was no coincidence and too similar to ignore. There is something going on, between Euskara and Ainu.. The Ainu and Basque language share too many similarities to ignore. The Japanese took many Ainu words. That's why people also notice the similarities between Basque and Japanese. Even between Basque and languages from the Altaic family. Anyway the Ainu were living in Japan thousands of years before the Ainu were overrun by Asian / Mongolian tribes and intermixed. So before anybody claims it is nonsense because the Ainu are genetically closer to Asians than Europeans, think twice.. since the Ainu were originally Caucasian. So science claims it immediately as pseudoscience.. because here we have something really odd going on, the Basque and the Ainu, separated 10.000 Kilometers from each other, but still sharing so many words and meanings..it can't be ignored. But, western science 'we know everything, because we were the first who explored the world' is too stubborn and too ignorant. What if the Basque and the Ainu migrated from a common source. Wait, that means ancient 'stupid' people were already traveling the oceans. Now here we have a big problem says modern science.. nah.. lets call it pseudoscience and we're good. History of human civilization and history of mankind is full of gaps.

[@TheRealJapan]

Thanks Legbreaker - that's really interesting! I would not be surprised to learn you are correct. People also tend to speak as if all humans emerged all over the world at the same time, rather than appearing in one place (continent) and then migrating across the globe. Thanks for sharing your perspective. If it isn't too much trouble, would you mind posting your same comment on the article on my blog - so other readers can see your feedback. I think it adds a lot to the story of the Ainu. Thanks! www.therealjapan.com/the-ainu-japans-forgotten-people/

[@Ric9hardify]

Just like most black Americans are not African. And many of us know the truth, that we are aboriginal to the Americas.

[@TheRealJapan]

@Great Games Gaming interestting thoughts

[@nancysmith2389]

@@Ric9hardify Hmmm. No one thinks that.

[@Ric9hardify]

@@nancysmith2389 Its not about what you think or believe. Its about facts.

[@h1e2a3t]

This is a video everyone should watch. Amazing to learn about these people and their history...

[@TheRealJapan]

Thanks - so pleased to hear you found the video amazing! Feel free to share with anyone you think might be interested in seeing it too.

[@miko4634]

Tank you so much-!! this really helped me with my presentation about Ainu. I really wanted to take Ainu for my presentation becouse i love Japan. But i learned really much. A whole new Japan with History-!!

[@TheRealJapan]

Hi Yuko-san that's great that my video helped with your presentation! May I ask what the presentation was for? Sounds interesting! Be sure to check out my blog too: www.therealjapan.com/blog

[@miko4634]

@@TheRealJapan In history we had to choose a type of indigenous people, and the others already took the Egyptian people and so on. Since I liked Japan a lot, I googled and Ainu came. I never knew about them. I'll make sure to use your blog in the future!

[@TheRealJapan]

@@miko4634 Thanks! Glad to have help you with your project.

[@goncalves2724]

thanks to golden kamuy, i got to know this fantastic culture!

[@TheRealJapan]

LOL! You're not the first to say that @Goncalves 😀 Glad you found it!

[@poppa4178]

I am currently watching samurai champloo and I heard that Okuru and his village were Ainu so I had to see who these people are. Learning new things everyday.

[@TheRealJapan]

A cool way to learn! Glad we are able to help a little with that. 😀

[@nodigBKMiche]

The Real Japan hi! I have a natural interest in ppl & their cultures. I sent a video of the Ainu pulling bark to make clothes to my Aunt in B.C. Canada, just because I thought she might be interested. Low & behold, Her (adopted son, whom I have met) is of the Kwakwakwaak Ppl in B.C., who are Twinned with a village of the Ainu. Who knew what a small world it is😀. Actually I did, but I didn't realize how the few degrees...💛💕🥂. Pls keep posting, inquiring minds want to know 💛👍🏼. I am in Toronto Canada

[@TheRealJapan]

@@nodigBKMiche thanks - so interesting to hear that. Small world indeed! You may want to subscribe to my website: www.therealjapan.com/subscribe

[@collettecaraway2759]

It's so darn sad when we mistreat/shun/shame those who came before us....and deny that we share the same blood.😿

[@TheRealJapan]

Very true Collete. Disappointing that such discrimination still exists.

[@kazutinoco8348]

Comentario salvaje en español aparece... Sabía algo de los ainu por que sé japonés y algo de su cultura, pero ver Golden Kamuy me hizo interesarme en la cultura Ainu... Mas que fascinante pueblo que tiene Japón y muchos no lo saben.

[@joannabebel8405]

Bless You and Your Families

[@KuraSourTakanHour]

There is likely Ainu bloodlines in many Japanese today, and vice versa, so current Ainu look much more Japanese than the "purer" bloodlines from 1000's for years ago

[@TheRealJapan]

Yeah - that sounds likely to me.

[@jackjackyphantom8854]

Yamato people are largely descended from Yayoi who were East Asian.

[@jackjackyphantom8854]

But I definitely see Jomon influence in many Japanese individuals. Yayoi and Jomon if mixed well can be really attractive.

[@mfreak1126]

Almost all Japanese people have Jomon ancestry but not Ainu ancestry.

[@Sawrattan]

Curiously, the men at 1:14 and the man on the left of the video thumbnail all look like Australian Aboriginals. None of the modern Ainu seem to look like that.

[@DamanKingBear]

Had never heard of them until now

[@TheRealJapan]

Hope you found it interesting? You can learn more about the Ainu and their culture in this blog post: www.therealjapan.com/the-ainu-japans-forgotten-people/

[@Zambia974]

interesting in knowing thier pure tradition

[@masoud4783]

2008? too late Where can I download video's music ? Very nice and relaxing music.

[@TheRealJapan]

Hey Masudo, the track is called "Sao Meo Orchestral Mix" by Doug Maxwell/ Zac Zinger. You can find it in the KZbin Audio Library. It's also on KZbin here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/goWxlnZtZ9FngKc

[@masoud4783]

@@TheRealJapan Thank you very much

[@TheRealJapan]

@@masoud4783 You're welcome!

[@paokmakedones9157]

Ainu have greek ionian origin, if you watch carefully in 1:31, you will see and recognize a meander in they cloths the same symbol that we have in many greek arts.

[@TheRealJapan]

That's interesting. I love Greece too and will be returning there this summer.

[@ashkaywolf5755]

They were there long before anything greek actually existed.... So no.

[@paokmakedones9157]

@@TheRealJapan We greek peoples also love Japan God bless Japan the land of rising sun❤🇬🇷🇯🇵

[@Ο_Θετικός]

@@ashkaywolf5755 Hahahahaahhah ever read Plato? Atlantis was a Greek continent and empire that existed at 10.000 B.C. And again wrong, the Ainu were eating frogs and snakes when the Greeks were doing Agriculture in the Aegean 8.000 years ago. And yes, they wear a Greek Symbol on their chest and their clothes, the Meander, named after the Meander river in Asia, today's Turkey, back then Greece. Don't use your hands to type bs if you haven't read REAL history. The name Ainu comes from Ion, the Greek people that were living NEXT TO THE MEANDER RIVER, hence the SYMBOL on their clothes. They were seafaring people and crossed all known oceans of their time to trade, explore and humanize uneducated natives. There you have your explanation, first, learn how to use your mind. Then, you can write with ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY about anything.

[@Ο_Θετικός]

τί λέει ο άλλος ο μαλάκας από κάτω? Όταν υπήρχαν οι Αίνου δεν υπήρχαν λέει οι Έλληνες! Κάτι τους ποτίζουν τους κερατάδες, δεν μπορεί!

[@saitokanzawa3097]

The Ainu are descedants of a paleolithic population either from Central Asia or Siberia. They arrived in Japan and southeastern Russia more than 30,000 years ago and possibly migrated also into northern America. There is some evidence for a small migration of Jomon groups in Japan down using the coastal route from Japan to southern China too. Keep well.

[@Joshdyisdifh]

Ainu people seem Turkic

[@kjames1414]

Beutiful

[@Csilla417]

I suppose the ainus were a part of the big scythian-hun population in Central Asia. This was broken up while fighting withe the Chinese, some of them went to the West (Attila), some to the east (mandjurs). I suppose ainus came at that time. I would love to investigate their language, and being Hungarian I would not be surprised if found several similarities.

[@TheRealJapan]

Interesting ideas Csilla.

[@Landofpuntltd]

Nothing to do with Huns or Scythians. They are haplogroup D and speak a language isolate. Also contrary to the white washing, they were known to have darker skin. Haplogroup D is from Haplogroup DE or and brother to haplogroup E. White washing and eurocentric lies is dangerous, please just stop!

[@imprisonedone8054]

This is utterly fake. The ainus were already in Japan 30.000 years ago and no we don’t share any simullarities with Hungarians.

[@BORN-to-Run]

If you see the earliest pictures and depictions of the Ainu, they are very NON-Asian-looking, but the more recent photos (1920 on), a change took place, they begin to express a distinctive "JAPANESE" LOOK in their phenotype. This happens to every minority in every nation. The men of the dominant culture, ALWAYS seem to find their way over to the female sub-culture, leaving their DNA fingerprint behind.

[@jarrelldonsondavid6681]

I never met Ainu tribe.. Where are they migrating in other country?

[@KinkoIto]

I am not sure if you can read Japanese or have been to Japan to meet the Ainu. A survey by the Prefecture of Hokkaido in 2017 lists the number of Ainu households as 8,274 and its population as 23,782. Cultural Survival estimates that there are between 24,000 to 200,000 Ainu people living in Japan. They certainly are not a forgotten people. They are actually getting more attention thanks to a Japanese comics and anime GOLDEN KAMUY in which one of the main protagonists are an Ainu girl. The comics/anime contributed to the revitalization of their language and ethnic identity. Also, the Ainu of today do not really look like those people you presented due to intermarriage between the Ainu and the Japanese that started long time ago.

[@TheRealJapan]

Thanks for your comments. Good to see you also raising awareness of the Ainu on your KZbin channel.

[@Ο_Θετικός]

hmm yeah...AFTER you slaughtered them for GENERATIONS and took their homes and wives...How good of you to remember them NOW. You are so gracious! Thank God the World is watching nowadays and atrocities are avoided, thanks to democracy!

[@FreeCatVideos]

In my opinion its too late I respect Japan but its too late 2008 come on Japan you are better than this???? I hope the Ainus will survive especially the language its like a treasure the when the Original language dies the Culture itself dies too.

[@colin2709]

Why don't the Ainu have their own independent island? Is it a bit like Hawaii...your more powerful neighbor just decides to absorb you?

[@momocha5154]

Why don’t the Navajo people have their own land? Why don’t the Uighur have their own land. Why don’t the Inca,Gypsy have their own land? As your mind every ethical group should have in their own land. It is tribe not country .

[@yayoikisaragi7968]

The true indigenous population (so-called Jomon people) diversified to the Emishi (Northeastern Japanese) and the Ainu (mix of marginal Jomonese and Siberian new comers). So, in the first place, the Ainu have not occupied Hokkaido solely.

[@yayoikisaragi7968]

@Mark Lanzarotta After WW2, Americans suggested Ainu independence. They declined it.

[@yayoikisaragi7968]

@Mark Lanzarotta Not only Ainu. Emishi-Japanese were inhabiting there.

[@piroskaracz3621]

@@momocha5154 I'm Gypsy..the word outsiders use..but we call ourselves Romani/Sinti/Domari. I speak a couple of the dialects as well. We are also indigenous with origins in India. Wherever we've settled we've made our home. Mideast...North Africa....Europe. I'm saddened when I see vids about other indigenous being forced to lose their languages and traditions. Happened to us as well in certain countries....either give it up or die. Would be beautiful if the older speakers of Ainu we're to get together to create community schools to teach Ainu get their language back. Here in states any nations who e lost or are losing their languages have done just that. The Houma in Louisiana. Are works by on that for themselves. The U.S. government has NEVER recognized them federally as a Tribe/Nation. For the Ainu not recognized til 2008!? Cruel.

[@hermesmariano255]

Espero esse povo continuar com suas tradições

[@kimsherlock8969]

Sad the Ainu were pushed toward cultural heritage genocide. Happy Ainu live on in culture. Music , design , knowledge 👌 in their heritage Rather amazing surviving such forces of eradication. Strength 💪 🎉

[@painterjen6713]

Wow! Fascinating!

[@TheRealJapan]

Thanks Jen. Glad you found it fascinating! Feel free to subscribe if you aren't already. 🤗

[@Cybernaut551]

Indigenous people are valid, thank you!

[@TheRealJapan]

You're welcome Benjamin! Feel free to subscribe to my website: www.therealjapan.com/subscribe/

[@SangMarocain]

Respect from moors

[@MelatiSenja123]

Of course Ainu is the real japan

[@elizabethmears5816]

All of our ancestors walked with dinosaurs and stood on this Earth when our solar system had two suns. One was blue the other was Gold. We are all the descendants of planet Earth. We are the world we are the children. Please help these people so that one day we can meet our indigenous brothers and sisters.

[@nowsgeneration2757]

Wow this right here is history I did not know, I did not know Russia and Japan were at war for the territory of the Ainu

[@bogdanunilever7743]

Bardzo interesującą kultura i zarazem tak mało rozpoznawany na całym świecie. Czy jest prawdą że w dużej mierze dzięki Polakowi Piłsudskiemu i jego badania miały wpływ na rozpowszechnienie Ajnów?

[@Cainandlayofficial]

I Live In America And Have Ainu Blood

[@TheRealJapan]

Hope you found the video interesting iblasian.

[@Cainandlayofficial]

@@TheRealJapan Didn't Know About Ainu I Thought My Great Grandfather Was Japanes But I Guess He Ainu

[@narutoukiuzzummmi9194]

Song?

[@TheRealJapan]

Sorry, can't remember. I was from KZbin's royalty free collection

[@narutoukiuzzummmi9194]

@@TheRealJapan heyyy don't worry about it you good lol just keep making good content and we'll call it even 😊

[@TheRealJapan]

@@narutoukiuzzummmi9194 OK- that's a deal!

[@narutoukiuzzummmi9194]

@@TheRealJapan okk

[@kvstxr]

@@narutoukiuzzummmi9194 lol i saw the song before its kzbin.info/www/bejne/goWxlnZtZ9FngKc&ab_channel=MusicLover%E2%80%93NoCopyrightMusic this

[@takashiadachi7938]

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).

[@TheRealJapan]

Thanks for sharing your opinions. Very interesting!

[@ZLotus]

I do not know how you know all of this, I am Japanese Ainu (Mother) from most north point hokkaido and Yu'pik Inuit (Father). I would like to know more about my family as I was made to live in America. Where may I find more information about my family that you seem to know?

[@TheRealJapan]

@@ZLotus there are links to further information about the Ainu in the description below the video.

[@yancasado5049]

Emocionante. Me arrepio todo!

[@TheRealJapan]

Thanks!

[@tudormiller887]

I ❤ the Ainu tattooed women, such an amazing culture & history.👩

[@TheRealJapan]

LEARN MORE: The Ainu - Japan’s Forgotten Indigenous People 👉www.therealjapan.com/the-ainu-japans-forgotten-people/

[@UrantiaBG]

Love you Japans ! Greetings from Bulgaria ! I love you !

[@TheRealJapan]

@@UrantiaBG thank you!

[@UrantiaBG]

@@TheRealJapan dont say thank you. we are one nation. you are my brother! we have centurys history

[@Paraglidecrete]

Dr St Dorikos - Dr K Hatzigiannakis : AINOU THE PRE-ANCIENT PELASGIC COLONIZATION OF EAST ASIA. The Archancient Greek roots in the language of the white natives of Japan and Sakhalin.

[@TheRealJapan]

Thanks for sharing

[@Paraglidecrete]

Thanks !

[@debe7752]

Ainu people and Kurdish people was a relatives. Very much hair.

[@sokothechinchilla]

Ainu were the real owners of what we know today as Japan and the Japanese culture. Ainu were and are a "Slavic" nation, most of them at least. We and our brothers and sisters were everywhere and this is what happened. Slavic people were almost in every part of our beautiful earth living in harmony and sharing culture.

[@igorantonov2412]

the Ainu were rather Scythians

[@Hero_Of_Old]

I believe there was a worlwide Aryan civilisation at one time, that has been covered up.

[@Ric9hardify]

White people can recognize that, but not that blacks are from everywhere, not just from Africa? I'm 3/4 black, but my only African relatives are white.

[@Landofpuntltd]

Ainu have nothing to do with Slavs or Scythians. They are haplogroup D a brother clade to E and both descend from haplogroup DE.

[@nicholasrenaud2335]

This is a joke. Just Eurocentric rubbish. Leave all of us indigenous Asians alone!

[@yametekudasai5960]

what the heck my grandmother's husband look like the man in the picture and if only I can send my uncle's picture he also look like the man in the picture they are also hairy, their eyes is a bit slanted not too big and not too small. i don't know hhehe they are also part spanish because my grandma's father is spanish. idk if we are somehow related to ainus hahaha xD that would be cool ♡♡♡

[@TheRealJapan]

Who knows? Maybe you do have family related to the Ainu!

[@lovetruth1116]

who is ainu people? i am 😕

[@TheRealJapan]

You can find more information about the Ainu and links to more about their culture here: www.therealjapan.com/the-ainu-japans-forgotten-people/

[@pizzapotato4609]

This is first Japanese (jomon people)

[@asamiyashin444]

Not Japanese at all.

[@playnite2188]

You assume

[@Ο_Θετικός]

No Japanese at all

[@chemicsky2772]

The first peoples in japan

[@MelatiSenja123]

Yes

[@albertsanjaya7706]

Most of japan people we see now are from chinese gen, same like korean

[@blacklegion2531]

No

[@albertsanjaya7706]

@@blacklegion2531 yes

[@StrictlyAinuMates]

AHOY MATES... GOT LEVI!?!?!?

[@xonce4296]

Their house is similar to Vikings houses

[@TheRealJapan]

Yeah - I guess that's so.

[@eraywayne2165]

Real Japanese

[@Ο_Θετικός]

nope..not at all

[@morisoba2550]

There are Ainu language learners, but nothing can stop native Ainu speakers disappear because no kids today grow up by Ainu in Japan. According to Ethnologue, there are 11 languages (Japanese, Ainu and 9 heavy Japanese dialects) in Japan. Soon or later Ainu and other heavy miscommunication dialects will die out.

[@TheRealJapan]

Perhaps you are correct. But I hope the Ainu language and culture lives on for a long time to come.

[@morisoba2550]

@@TheRealJapan Ainu culture may remain at the museum and in the tourism industry, but it will disappear in the real world because Ainu are becoming normal Japanese. Essential part of Ainu culture was hunting and gathering economy, which is died out culture. At most it could just survive as a hobby.

[@franka6790]

I support Ainu Culture and it's people but please do not mislead the public by telling them that they are the first inhabitants of Japan. They are the first settlers of Hokkaido but not Japan itself.

[@oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072]

Yar -a/e Ainu ..to make someone say/ study si-itak a-e-pakasnu yar-a/e se-kor yan /ne na 日本語=Sisam itak　やろうyarou .Why would a nation so proud adopt the Kanji Chinese and cover the Ainu with it ,Yayoi=Jeju Korean originally Jipang Taiwan Okinawa word went bring Kanji and rice culture make Wua jin Chinese word Yama-moto Ainu word indigenous of Taiwan ,guess but it is complex if the history is one sided A Yayoi queen named all places in Chinese in south Japan ,kuma-moto Kuma-so the Bear culture. study Ainu and Japanese without Kanji and you will find old Yamamoto Kan-to Sky in Ainu Fuji Hushi grandmother of fire

[@레인보-s4u]

홋까이도에는 지금도 한국인의 후예가 살고 있다는데~~ 인류의 역사는 고대에도 인적,물적 교류가 있었던 것을 짐작한다.

[@TheRealJapan]

That could be correct. I would not be surprised.

[@blacklegion2531]

No korea

[@oqqaynewaddingxtwjy7072]

Ne-p Ainu y-so-itak ne yak-ka y-e-pakasnu show me Ainu conversation comments..

[@sangrapuantomaikda8841]

Säilitatud traditsioonilised väärtused

[@debe7752]

Hi I am Real Ainu. Too much hair Too much brushes. Like a Kurdish Japon Ainu. My face like a tone Hokkaido. I love my Ancestors. Rest in Peaced. I dont forget them. My carpet bear. I am too old Real Ainu. More hair More lines. More barbarian. More violence. Real Ainu Lived MÖ:10.000~MÖ:300. They are was a tribe. They lived Real Ainu Hokkaido, Sakhalin. They has a very white face. Like a mine face. Cotton face. Not a Russian. Not a Turkish. Ainu Kurdish people. Relatives Kurdish. Certainly The most famous Nefertiti Princess My relative...

[@Joshdyisdifh]

Ainu must be descendants of Turkic people.

[@Ο_Θετικός]

yeah right whatever...Did Turks use Meander? Brrrrrrrrrrrr

[@mckhael5378]

Propaganda

[@anatharahadi]

The Ainu have already lived in Japan before the Yayoi people