Emori Susumu, a professor emeritus at Tohoku Gakuin University in Miyagi Prefecture and an expert on Ainu history, says the museum will spur people’s interest, but doesn’t adequately explain ...

The Ainu people are the indigenous people of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan's northernmost main island. They developed their own distinct language, history and culture, which were quite different from ...

that the history of Hokkaido's indigenous people, the Ainu, was about to be rewritten. Since the mid-1970s I had been investigating the relationship between plants and people in prehistoric ...

Upopoy, an Ainu word meaning “singing together in a large group,” is the nickname of a new facility themed on the culture and history of the Ainu, an indigenous people of northern parts of ...

By hosting events, members of the community are able to educate the wider world on their history and situation. "If I try to ...

But before we go on, it’s worth taking a look at the Ainu people’s history and culture. “The Ainu people don’t exist only in our history textbooks,” says Maya. “We blend into the ...

Shida pointed to the history of the Ainu people, who have long been exploited and discriminated against by Japanese colonizers. “There are some among the Ainu people who react strongly against ...

While on the island, he creates a transcript of the language of its indigenous inhabitants, the Ainu people. Piłsudski is much better known there, as in Poland he is greatly overshadowed by his ...

The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan Hokkaido the northern island of Japan was previously called Ainumosir or land of the Ainu Ainu traditions are facing a critical situation the latest ...

A talk with the director and the people featured in the film. Ever since its official release at the Busan International Film Festival and the Tokyo International Film Festival, Ainu Puri (The ...