Learn more about the indigenous Ainu of Japan (English online resources)

Music

Farside Music Interview of Oki (August 3, 2005)
http://www.farsidemusic.com/acatalog/Far_Side_Radio.html

Oki Dub Band Official Website
http://www.tonkori.com/

Art

"The Ainu Art Project Meets Kyoto"
http://tenthousandthingsfromkyoto.blogspot.com/2009/12/ainu-art-project-meets-kyoto-art.html

"AINU REBELS-RERA CISE-Tokyo Ainu Restaurant-KILA OKI fusion- UMEKO ANDO" http://www.kyotojournal.org/10,000things/117.html

Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People [Online Exhibition]
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/ainu/


Film

"Ainu Okay An Wa (The Indigenous Ainu are Here)!: "Tokyo Ainu", a film" http://www.kyotojournal.org/10,000things/231.html

Language

"Ainu: Gengo/Bunka no Fukkō to Rekishi no Yokuatsu' (Ainu: Promotion of Language/Culture and Suppression of History)"
By Osamu Okuda
United Nations Global Seminar 2008
http://www.unu.edu/gs/files/2008/hk/HK08_Okuda_abstractJP.pdf

"Nao Somo Kuokere (The Work is Unfinshed): Considering the Ainu Language" http://tenthousandthingsfromkyoto.blogspot.com/2009/07/nao-somo-kuokerethe-work-is-unfinished.html

Project U-E Peker: Introducing the Ainu oral tradition to the English-speaking world, available: http://projectuepeker.blogspot.com/

"The Song the Owl God Himself Sang 'Silver Droplets Fall Fall All Around' An Ainu Tale."
By Chiri Yukie and Seldon Kyoko (2009)
The Asia-Pacific Journal, 4-5-09
http://www.japanfocus.org/-Chiri-Yukie/3026

Unofficial Summary of the Ainu Expert Meeting on the Status of Ainu Language http://liralen42.xanga.com/708380755/unofficial-summary-of-ainu-expert-meeting-on-the-status-of-the-ainu-language/

Organizations and DocumentsThe Foundation for Research and Promotion of Ainu Culture
http://www.frpac.or.jp/eng/index.html

Indigenous Peoples' Summit in Ainu Mosir 2008 Declaration
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/weblogs/lia_tarachansky/1925

Shiraoi: Living the Ainu Tradition
http://www.town.shiraoi.hokkaido.jp/ainu-tradition/index.html

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) (A/RES/61/295) http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf

United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/history.html

Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Japan (2008) (A/HRC/8/44), conducted by the United Nations Human Rights Council
http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G08/139/96/PDF/G0813996.pdf?OpenElement

Japanese Policy, Grassroots Activism, and Indigenous Rights

"Divided Lives: The story of Indigenous People and the Pacific War"
By Tessa Morris-Suzuki
The Asia-Pacific Magazine
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/APM/TXT/morris-s-01-96.html

"Indigenous at last! Ainu Grassroots Organizing and the Indigenous Peoples Summit in Ainu Mosir"
By ann-elise lewallen
The Asia-Pacific Journal, 48-6-08
http://www.japanfocus.org/-ann_elise-lewallen/2971

"New Japanese Governmental Ainu Policy Promotion Panel to include 5 Ainu members"
http://tenthousandthingsfromkyoto.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-japanese-governmental-ainu-policy.html

"On the Dawn of a New National Ainu Policy: the “‘Ainu’ as a Situation” Today"
By Mark Winchester (2009)
The Asia-Pacific Journal, 41-3-09
http://www.japanfocus.org/-Mark-Winchester/3234

"Report on the Initiatives in the Promotion of the UNDRIP in Asia and Good Practices in the Exercise of Indigenous Peoples Rights"
By The Asia Indigenous People Pact
http://www.aippnet.org///content/view/166/21/

"Yūshikishakondankai kara no Tōshin (Ainu Panel Experts Special Report)"
By The World Indigenous Peoples Network Ainu (2009)
www.win-ainu.com/Ainu%20Panel%20Experts%20Special%20Report%20Points.pdf