The ''Ainu Times'' is the only

magazine A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ...

published in the

Ainu language Ainu (, ), or more precisely Hokkaido Ainu (), is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. It is a member of the Ainu language family, itself considered a language family isola ...

, hosted by the Ainu Pen Club. Its first edition was published for 20 March 1997. It uses both special

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and

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s in its articles. Its editor as of 2006 is guitarist Takashi Hamada. 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.

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''Ainu Times'' homepage (by Takasi Hamada, in Ainu and Japanese)
24 October 2009)

24 October 2009) (includes pages on Ainu Times)

(example of Ainu Times, in Ainu, Japanese and Esperanto, by Yokoyama Hiroyuki, a member o

in Japan) 1997 establishments in Japan Ainu mass media Ainu languages Lifestyle magazines published in Japan Magazines established in 1997 Quarterly magazines {{Ainu-stub