Post date: May 3, 2014 11:16:38 PM
I’m going to research about Ainu issue once more. I researched about their culture last semester, and I also researched about their economic situation in other class. I have not decided what I will focus on in this research yet, but I have interest in how Ainu people live in today’s society, so I will focus on that. And I’d like to know more about their culture, it is very interesting for me that they had not have any alphabets or characters, they had told their history and custom via their unique oral literature, I want to know more about their songs, yukar.
I’d like to know styles to face with their background as Ainu. People who have Ainu relatives how do they want to live? As Ainu or as Japanese? Oki, an Ainu musician, I researched about him last semester, hadn’t know he had Ainu relatives, and I read some blogs written by people who have Ainu background, some of them said they want to live as Japanese, other wants to have Ainu’s own territory, and some of them said there are no differences between Japanese and Ainu, it’s very interesting for me. I want to know more opinions.
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