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.

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.

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

Learned all this from Golden Kamuy 💪🏻🐻🇯🇵

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.

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.

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.

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.

❤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!

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.

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

Remarkable, power to the Ainu!

Thank you for allowing us to visit with you!

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 ....

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.

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 ☝🏼🧡

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.

thank you.

just like any colonized countries like the Ainu, Australian aborigines, American Indians are often left to "rot" in alcohol and drugs and hopefully forgotten overtime.....these beautiful ancient people have so much for the modern people too learn from.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Excellent! Chock full of information…. Exemplary video.

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

Ainu art reminds me of celtic art in Scotland and Ireland.

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?

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

Looks like Haida from British Columbia.

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.

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.

Thks for the none western centric program

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.

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

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

Very educational

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

Ainu you were gonna say that

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 )

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

The indeginous art of the Ainu looks very similar to the indigenous art of the Native Americans of Oregon and Washington in the United States. I wonder if there is a connection?

I didn’t see one live Ainu

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

Or is it some kind of ceremonial katana?

Glacia Ainumon pol su selvicio

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.

All things must be imported, just like Singapore 😂

🎉n8v❤

Why do they have the yap mutation like Africans

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.

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?

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

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

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

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 ??

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….

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

They seem to have black traits

If Ainu still ruled Japan, Japan would be third world

I am grateful that the Ainu have officially recognized for their existence and become an integral part of Modern Japan which is actually not "homogenous," but also from a number of mixtures, including the Ainu and even earlier entities, which shape the existence of Modern Japan People to this day. What is most important is Equality and Togetherness as well as Unity for the Common Good and Welfare, while preserving each other's uniqueness and traditions and enriching each other (what is bad is the attitude of the elite and carrying out oppression, making distinctions so as to create a "second class" people as in European Colonialism in various parts of the world, where natural mixing ~ mutual exchange ~ integration ~ so it becomes a "melting pot" as one nation is hindered and then what happens is oppression, coercion, colonization from another entity (There is a reason why Western [European] colonies are still called the Western [European] World, they remained and felt part of the Western European people and behaved as such as superior and elitist colonialists]), because unnaturalness and coercion are what is happening ('till this day in various parts of the world called "the West," and as the European Colonialist/Imperialist project as the Zionist Isra-hell [the fake-Jews] which is still in these days, who carry out colonization, oppression, racism/apartheid, forced and illegal settlements and evictions, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and various atrocities and crimes against the Native People of Palestinians in various backgrounds [Arabs, Jews, etc] 'till today [although this is another story]). Basically, Japanese culture includes Samurai culture, food, principles in treating food and respect for living creatures as its source, natural deliciousness, preference for "natural flavors" on food, and others show traces of the intermingling of entities living in Japan. May they all unite well, respect and protect each other, mix naturally, while preserving the unique traditions of each, while continuing to enrich each other's culture. Hopefully they are all well, healthy and prosperous and can continue to contribute goodness for good in this mortal world.

Golden Kamuy brought me here