Example sentences for: ainu

How can you use “ainu” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • These migrants, who later settled throughout the Japanese archipelago, were the ancestors of the present-day Ainu, whose Caucasoid facial and body hair distinguished them from subsequent immigrants from China, Manchuria, Korea, and perhaps the Malay Peninsula.

  • The Ainu, an ethnically distinct community regarded by anthropologists as the islands’ original settlers and now grouped almost exclusively in Hokkaido, campaign for civil rights in a movement similar to that of Native Americans in the US.

  • Beyond them were the tribes of the native Ainu, at that time not considered “Japanese. ”

  • After years of neglect and discrimination, the cultural significance of the tiny though historically significant Ainu community is finally being recognized.

  • It was only when the Ainu were progressively driven north up into Hokkaido that Tohoku was opened up to broader settlement.


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