This is such a well done documentary. I was first introduced to Ainu Culture through the series Golden Kamuy. Being a Indigenous of North America, I became enthralled by them and found it fascinating that they may have distinct relations to us. I hope to see them gain more recognition, not in Japan. But in the West too.

@IIIIIlllllIIIIIlllllIIIII

7 ай бұрын

The Ainu/Jomon are less closely related to Native Americans than other East Eurasian ethnic groups. The first wave of (non-Athabaskan, non-Inuit) Native Americans are descended from one group of Ancient Paleo-Siberians (another group of APS likely gave rise to the Uralic speakers of Siberia and Northern Europe although that group is paternally more closely related to Y-DNA haplogroup O carriers), who themselves are a mix of Ancient North Eurasian (Kets and other Yeniseians) and Ancient Northern East Asian (East Asians). upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Phylogenetic_structure_of_Eastern_Eurasians.png

Amazing to see the similarities between the Ainu and the indigenous peoples of North America, specifically the indigenous of the pacific north west. The art, clothing, style, is so similar.

This documentary is fantastic! I am only halfway through but the fact that you can say the "Ainu and the Japanese" instead of refer to the Ainu as 'indigenous Japanese' shows that you all really put a lot of thought into this documentary! Very admirable! I would love to visit Hokkaido someday especially since I love the snow and sea food haha.

Learned all this from Golden Kamuy 💪🏻🐻🇯🇵

The parallels with the treatment of the Native American tribes are so clear - right down to making the language illegal and supressing all cultural identify. Even the change to the dances and songs has it's parallel in North America. Seeing another culture struggling to return is emotionally moving. I am so glad they are reclaiming their identity.

@blajing

6 ай бұрын

It was a devastating sea change around the world ushered in by Christian colonialism.

Ainus were the first people in East Asia, they share a genetic lineage with Ryukuans and are closely related to Eskimos and Native Americans.

@safuwanfauzi5014

Жыл бұрын

Ryukuan mixed with Austronesian, Ainu close related genetic were Andaman Islander, they never look like but genetic they are close.

@pietrycranberry6621

Жыл бұрын

Native Americans, sure but not the Inuits as some are newer people and the Ainu relative to them are an older group.

@safuwanfauzi5014

Жыл бұрын

@@pietrycranberry6621 Paleo-Siberian people in Siberia are related to Native Americans, the language are related, the culture and architecture are similar they live in cone shape tent or like tepee, but also similar with Altaic and uralic, they are love reindeer, horse, nomadic. Altaic/mongolic-turkic and tungstic, Uralic, Paleo-Siberian and native America [especially the northern, the plain and great lake] maybe have connection, because of "teepe" and 'yurt' culture. they are also both Mongoliod race. Siberian are the land of the altaic and uralic before russian conquest, even today Sakha republic are the largest republic in Russia, and many republic belong to Altaic and uralic people. except in Caucasus which are not Siberia.

@oneviwatara9384

Жыл бұрын

@@safuwanfauzi5014 Fake news 😂🤣

@oneviwatara9384

Жыл бұрын

Fake news 🤣

The artwork is quite similar to that of American "Indians" of the US Northwest like the Haida. And, the Haida for example were another example of a civilization where people could stay in one place but didn't have to farm - the environment was rich enough to support large numbers of people on fishing, hunting, gathering.

Amazing documentary. What a great group of people I learned so much and find them fascinating. Glad they are getting the recognition and funding they deserve.

I’m Indigenous from what’s now CA and we have several words and architectural features in common with Ainu. Plus there’s many oral histories of going across the western ocean to visit and dance with relatives in Hawaii and probably the Ainu. There were ocean worthy boats made from redwood and our ancestors could make water tight baskets. And supposedly land masses were closer together way back then.

@dp_wynn5392

Ай бұрын

What tribe if I may ask? The Sinkiuse of WA have similar stories.

highest respect for those who fight hard to maintain ancestral identity and traditions, hopefully more and more people can proudly display their identity as ainu people. I wish i can visit there to watch and learn one day

I have visited the Ainu village a few years ago and was puzzled by the different deaigns and costumes from those seen in other parts of Japan.. My family nembers who were then living in Tokyo brouht me to various parts of Japan but they did not know much about the Ainus.

@safuwanfauzi5014

Жыл бұрын

Ainu also native in Kuril Island chain and south Sakhalin. but after Russia take over(Soviet back then), Ainu and Japanese been kick out to Japan in Hokkaido, same Russian did to Manchu, Nikh, Nanai, Evenki, Korean and Han Chinese when they take over Amur region/Primorsky Krai and Amur Oblast.

Very educational, I had no idea that this rich culture existed...learnt

thank you.

These series of docus by CNA are really well done, why can't the other local English programmes / drama up the game ...

So much like Vancouver Island and Haida Gwaii in so many ways ☝🏼🧡

With due respect you people live 100yrs a head of us. To the people by the people for the people. Lot of things we have to learn from you people. Thanks for bringing your culture and tradition.

❤this is fascinating. I knew of the Ainu from my World History Courses in College. Later I read the work of Elizabeth Wayland Barber,the Mummies of Urumchi about people who lived 4,000 years ago in Chinese Turkmenistan. I wondered if there was a connection. Possibly, but equallypossibly not. The Presenter and Narrater is first class!

Rich Culture !!! to treasure & worthy of preservation. Sadly ... in almost all part of the world , each country gradually forgets their culture and origin .

How come your videos are so good? 🐇 I watched a video about the Korean royalty and now this one! 🐴 So adventurous and mysterious! 🐇

The Ainu reminds me of the Denaʼina people in Alaska. I can't help but wonder if the Ainu and other groups like the Dena'ina in Alaska have a common heritage ....

I was searching if anyone in the comments mentions the incredible relation of Ainu language with Basque language from Spain. Their language has hundreds of words in common with this Euskara. It is so interesting to find how this happened and how they were related or perhaps have the same origin?

Excellent! Chock full of information…. Exemplary video.

Ainu is same line with native people in alaska and american called indian

Golden Kamuy brought me here.

The Ainu remind me of the ancient people of Chinese Turkmenistan as written about by Elizabeth Wayland Barber in _The Mummies of Urumchi_ a Caucasoid people who lived there 4,000 years ago.

I asked my Japanese friends about the Ainu when I lived there. None of them had ever heard of them. They may now, but they weren't even teaching about them in Japanese schools.

Hokkaido places have an Ainu name. Even the name Sapporo is Ainu. Asahikawa as well has an Ainu origin.

I stumbled upon this because of the Anime Golden Kamuy, which piqued my interest.

What about the Jomon people? Weren't people of the peninsula (modern day Korea) blended with the "Japanese" over 2300 years ago? Essentially, this would mean that the Japanese and Koreans share similar genetics from the ancient blend.

@leftovers923

Жыл бұрын

You mean yayoi people. The ainu are descendants of the jomon people.

@MyWorldIsYourOyster

Жыл бұрын

@@leftovers923Do you mean Yayoi people in terms of inter-blending with the Jomons? Obviously, 2300+ years ago is not long ago when you bring up Yayoi people since that’s like super ancient, BCE. I personally just don’t use Yayoi since that’s strictly Japanese language. The original people of the peninsula didn’t identify themselves that way either, but don’t know what they were classified as back then. (I also don’t want to give the modern day Chinese any credit either. 🤨) Honestly, since modern day 🇯🇵 archipelago was far more isolated years ago (also genetically isolated), I can tell that certain islands were far more distinctively unique with their physical diaspora and language/dialect like Okinawa and the islands going towards Taiwan. Evolution is still always going to be a work in progress. If you ask an elderly Korean about the Japanese colonization during the 1900s, they are/were extremely bitter. At the end of the day, I will not discredit their past LIFE experiences, but better the Japanese than the Chinese or Russians. The peninsula would have eventually been conquered by those huge neighbors one way or another!

@pandasan406

Жыл бұрын

@@MyWorldIsYourOyster If you want a quick prehistorical summary, the Jomon people existed on Hokkaido Island. Then when the Yayoi period arrived, Hokkaido kinda "broke away" from the rest of the Japanese peninsula and had its own chronology, distinct from the rest of Japan. So Jomon culture and populations were in Hokkaido, but never the Yayoi.

@_sayan_roy_

6 ай бұрын

​@@MyWorldIsYourOyster "Better the Japanese than Chinese and Russians". 😂 Chinese and Russians had to be real horrible to one up Japanese cruelties in the colonisation. Maybe they would have but it is far from obvious as you made it sound.

Very educational

Looks like Haida from British Columbia.

39:46 funny enough to see how Singaporean English/Malaysian English and Japanese English meet upon 😅

Shown is not a sword but a traditional Japanese "TANTO", a kind of knife worn by the samurai class. Otherwise two thumbs up!

I can't help but draw parallels with the relationship between the Ainu and the Japanese and the relationship between native American tribes and U.S. settlers. Trade, conflict, more settlement, displacement, a technological imbalance during said conflicts, and even introduced diseases from which the indigenous tribes have no immunity to. Yikes. It just goes to show that the story of humankind, and how we interact with one another, once we get past specific details, is the same throughout the world, regardless of culture. On a different note, here is yet another example of samurai using firearms (in this case, to suppress the Ainu), which of course, historians are very well aware of (such as the Portuguese introduction of muskets at Tanegashima in the 1500s), but, oddly, martial arts movie buffs often erroneously assume that firearms were (supposedly) "dishonorable" to the ethos of the samurai, and by default, "all" historical martial arts warriors. Well, popular movies are enjoyable fiction that should never be confused with actual history, since as shown here, the samurai definitely used guns, wholeheartedly! (Which is why I appreciate the showing of samurai gunnery in the episode focused on the Tokugawa shogunate.) Anyway, excellent series. Definitely sharing this.

Thks for the none western centric program

Ainu was mishandled and prosecute by Japanese before 21st century. Need to add to the content

The bark is twisted like linen using saliva to “glue” it together! The tradition for baste fibers in Western Europe and possibly the rest of the world as well. Very interesting.

Yamato Supremacy is still high in Japan to some aile or fielder yeah.

2:15 Это тЮркские орнаменты, у меня аж мурашки от того насколько наша гаплогруппа настоящие номады культура всех тЮрков очень похожа . Айну наверное тЮрки ( саха, казахи , хакасы , алтайцы )

Glacia Ainumon pol su selvicio

Or is it some kind of ceremonial katana?

There is a Chinese character '蝦夷' in an old book from before the Kamakura period. It is pronounced emisi and is of Japanese Jomon descent. 鎌倉時代以前の古書に漢字「蝦夷」がある。発音はemisiであり日本縄文系日本人である。 The Chinese character '蝦夷' is found in old books from the Kamakura period (1185-1333) onwards. It is pronounced ezo and is the Ainu. 鎌倉時代以後の古書に漢字「蝦夷」がある。発音はezoであり、ainuである。 The word ainu is derived from the Japanese Jomon word ainoko（間の子）, from which the the Ainu pronounced themselves enjhyu. This was Japanese pronounced ezo（蝦夷） and became the etymology of the word. ainuとは日本縄文語のainokoが語源。ainuは自分たちをenjhyuと発音した。これが日本発音でezoとし、語源になった。 Zainichi and naturalised Korean history professors do not know the history of Japanese Kanji（漢字）. 在日・帰化韓国人の歴史教授は日本漢字の歴史を知らない。 Despite not knowing, the Ainu say they were in Honshu before the Kamakura period. 知らないにもかかわらず、ainuは鎌倉時代以前に本州に居たと言う。 There are no the Ainu sites in the mainland. the Ainu ruins are ground huts. Japanese Jomon archaeological site is a pit dwelling. 本州に、ainu遺跡は無い。アイヌ遺跡は地上の小屋。日本縄文人遺跡は竪穴式住居。

I wonder - is it not all very radioactive now? Everyone acts like nothing happened ?

This documentary was so well done until 33:32 there it is the message. He really could've left that scripted part out.

Ainus of Japan were the original Indigenous inhabitants.

@Jake-zk3eb

Жыл бұрын

The Ainus were merely 1 ethic group The Jomon were comprised of many different groups until they were absorbed by the Yamato.

@user-ds4st6sp1b

Жыл бұрын

No !! Jyomon / Jomon people 縄文人are the Japanese native inhabitants!! What are you talking about ?? Jyomon people have lived in Japan since 16.000 years ago all over Japanese islands from Hokkaido to Okinawa. People with higher Jyomon DNA percentage still exist in Okinawa, Amami, southern Kyushu , Tohoku and Hokkaido. Modern Japanese the mixture of the native Japanese Jyomon people and the people came from the Chinese continent about 3.000 to 1.500 years ago. People in Okinawa or southern Kyushu , Tohoku & Hokkaido have higher Jyomon trait. That’s why they look a little different. As for the Ainu, they are the mixture of the native Japanese Jyomon & people came from the Okhota side. They interbred around the Kamakura era, 8th century and became a tribe called Ainu. It’s been proven by molecular biology that the time they interbred was around 8 th century. Ainu isn’t native Japanese. It’s proven by science. And they are interbred a lot with Yayoi ( Yamato ) Japanese. What’s more, we haven’t forgotten about them . Why do you decide all these bullshits and spread fake information ?? Who do you work for ?? CCP or Russia??

@Systems_70

Жыл бұрын

That's not really true. "Mongoloids" were evolving further east and south in East Asia, while Siberia was populated mainly by "Caucasoids". Mixing between the two over thoudands of years produced various groups such as the ancestors of Native Americans, Scythians, Etc.

All things must be imported, just like Singapore 😂

Modern Asians who call themselves Japanese are not native to Japan. these are people from East Asia who fought against the indigenous population. The Ainu had a samurai code, which the Asians took and appropriated for themselves.

@Systems_70

Жыл бұрын

That's not really true. In the Yayoi period, the newcomers were living in harmony with the indigenous. They did a DNA test several years ago and found that the Japanese royal family has the same paternal haplogroup (D) as the Ainu, meaning the Japanese emperors are descendents of Jomon men.

Disappointed, i expected to see at least some Ainu. Are they extinct, why no one of them appeared in the video?

@pandasan406

Жыл бұрын

At least half of the people that they interviewed were Ainu...

@2551987ezio

Жыл бұрын

It's not easy to find a pure ainu. As in the 2000, the number of "pure" Ainu was estimated at about 300 people. Official estimates place the total Ainu population of Japan at 25,000. Unofficial estimates place the total population at 200,000 or higher, as the near-total assimilation of the Ainu into Japanese society has resulted in many individuals of Ainu descent having no knowledge of their ancestry.

Why do they have the yap mutation like Africans

You don't need to put subtitles when they speak perfectly good English. Very condescending.

You are similar in culture and DNA to Proto-Polynesians. You are excellent sailors who have become hunters on these islands. Then the ancestors of the Japanese came from the Korea and started killing you. Did I understand correctly?

知らない人が多いが、アイヌは北海道の先住民族じゃないぞ。これは日本人も誤解していることであるが。北海道は元々日本と同じ民族が住んではいたが、正式に日本という国には入っていなかったし、寒冷で米が育たなかったため文明の発達が本土と比べかなり遅かった。そして、アイヌはいつ、どこから出てきたのか判明していない。主に中国は「日本はアイヌに北海道返してやれよ」というが、お門違いにも程がある、むしろ侵略されたのが誰かよ〜く考えて欲しい

@ektherising

Жыл бұрын

アイヌが歴史上に登場する時に“日本”という概念は存在しないし、そもそ平安時代以前の東北以北の歴史上の記録が乏しい。 遺伝的なの分布からも見てわかるように、“アイヌ”の起源の民族が“和人”よりもはるか昔から日本本土に存在したのは間違いないぞ。

어째 일본정부의 지원받고 만든 영상같다. 그들의 쿠릴지역 영토확장을 정당화하기위한 수단으로.

Like most indigenous people, they are simple, with a history predominantly focused on survival….Not likely to change the world (and, personally, the fact that they stopped “only recently” torturing poor bears to death as a ritual killing-AFTER raising it as a “pet”-really ANGERS ME)…. Just because a culture is considered “indigenous “ and they may have experienced historic discrimination does NOT mean we necessarily need admire them….

@ItsMikeLearns

11 ай бұрын

its best to preserver indigenous culture

@MissN1234

9 ай бұрын

More cultures even sacrificed humans. It's their way of life, their belief and it's now long gone. People of the past have their own way of lives. You don't need to understand it you just need to accept it.

Jyomon / Jomon people 縄文人are the native Japanese inhabitants!! What are you talking about ?? Jyomon people have lived in Japan since 16.000 years ago all over Japanese islands from Hokkaido to Okinawa. People with higher Jyomon DNA percentage still exist in Okinawa, Yaeyama, Amami, southern Kyushu , the Pacific side of Shikoku, Tohoku and Hokkaido. Modern Japanese are the mixture of the native Japanese Jyomon people and the people came from the Chinese continent about 3.000 to 1.500 years ago. People in Okinawa or southern Kyushu , Tohoku & Hokkaido have higher Jyomon trait. That’s why they look a little different. As for the Ainu, they are the mixture of the native Japanese Jyomon & people came from the Okhota side. They interbred around the Kamakura era, 8th century and became a tribe called Ainu. It’s been proven by molecular biology that the time they interbred was around 8 th century. Ainu isn’t native Japanese. It’s proven by science. And they are interbred a lot with Yayoi ( Yamato ) Japanese. What’s more, we haven’t forgotten about them . Why do you decide all these bullshits and spread fake information ?? Who do you work for ??

@leejiawei4576

Жыл бұрын

And you’re angry because…?

@sleepyhead6468

Жыл бұрын

@@leejiawei4576 Typical.. Japanese usually don't want to accept their dark history on the bad things that they did

@oneviwatara9384

Жыл бұрын

Ainu people are related to Jomon people?

@tride536

Жыл бұрын

Is that some Japanese national agenda in your comment?

@MyWorldIsYourOyster

Жыл бұрын

I also commented about the Jomons. To be honest, the blend would be more related to the people of the peninsula (modern day Korea) moreso than the Chinese. Geographically, the peninsula is the closest. I would say that the modern day Japanese and Koreans share DNA overlap (since over 2300 years ago). I would not go as far to give the modern day Chinese too much credit. 😂

They seem to have black traits

If Ainu still ruled Japan, Japan would be third world

@tride536

Жыл бұрын

They don't need to rule Japan, just to exist, have their own rights and traditions.

@suus1027

Жыл бұрын

What

@MissN1234

9 ай бұрын

Such an ignorant and disrespectful commet

@babangteo2853

9 ай бұрын

What's wrong with becoming third world?

Golden Kamuy brought me here