Ainu Times Explained

Editor:	Takashi Hamada
Frequency:	Quarterly
Company:	Ainu Pen Club
Founded:	1997
Country:	Japan
Language:	Ainu language Japanese

The Ainu Times is the only magazine published in the Ainu language, hosted by the Ainu Pen Club. Its first edition was published for 20 March 1997.^[1] ^[2] It uses both special katakana and romanizations in its articles. Its editor as of 2006 is guitarist Takashi Hamada.^[3] It is published four times a year. A Japanese version of each issue, containing Japanese translations of the issue's contents, is published three months after the issue's initial publication.^[4]

External links

Ainu Times homepage (by Takasi Hamada, in Ainu and Japanese) (Geocities page, Archived 24 October 2009)
オタルナイ・レコード (Archived 24 October 2009) (includes pages on Ainu Times)
cakcak kamuy oruspe (example of Ainu Times, in Ainu, Japanese and Esperanto, by Yokoyama Hiroyuki, a member of Hokkaido Esperanto League (HEL) in Japan)

Notes and References

Web site: Ainu Times The 18-th year Ainu (language) journal (4 times a year) . 26 May 2024 . 10 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210710205033/http://www.hokkajda-esp-ligo.jp/JOKO/Flier_for_spread_of_AinuTimes.pdf . live .
Book: Brunon Synak. Tomasz Wicherkiewicz. Tomasz Wicherkiewicz. Language minorities and minority languages in the changing Europe: proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Minority Languages, Gdańsk, 1-5 July, 1996. 9 June 2012. 1997. Wydawn. Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego. 978-83-7017-772-0. 26 May 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240526094204/https://books.google.com/books?id=_FRiAAAAMAAJ. live.
News: 浜田隆史 SOLO GUITAR RECORDS. 2015-03-16. SOLO GUITAR RECORDS. 22 November 2017. ja. 18 October 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211018204202/https://sologuitar.jp/takashi-hamada/. live.
Web site: アイヌタイムズ. www.geocities.jp. 22 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20091213190631/http://www.geocities.jp/otarunay/taimuzu.html#times. 13 December 2009. dead.