Example Sentences

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He became interested in anthropology and archaeology and moved to the village of Nibutani in Hokkaido to be among the Ainu community.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2025

The remains of the Ainu people - donated by Scottish anthropologist Dr Neil Gordon - were held in the university's anatomy museum.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2025

Although Watanabe documented Ainu women hunting, often with the aid of dogs, he dismissed this finding in his interpretations and placed the focus squarely on men as the primary meat winners.

From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2023

For example, Hitoshi Watanabe focused on ethnographic data about the Ainu, an Indigenous population in northern Japan and its surrounding areas.

From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2023

She did not think of Japan as the land of Ainu, but rather as the land of her parents and the land where Lynn and I would eventually get sent to learn our femininity.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata