Mamoru Tazawa, chairman of the Enciw bereaved families association, talks about the troubled history of Sakhalin Ainu in Sapporo in September 2022. (Mainichi/Norikazu Chiba) The Japanese and ...

Previously slated to open in April 2020, the Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park in Shiraoi, Hokkaido, was unfortunately delayed due to Covid-19 coronavirus. Better late than never, Upopoy finally ...

Beyond Ainu studies: an introduction / Mark K. Watson, ann-elise lewallen, and Mark J. Hudson -- Ainu ethnography: historical representations in the West / Hans Dieter Ölschleger -- Tourists, ...

A film inspired by the story of a young Ainu woman who translated into Japanese an epic poem passed down orally among the indigenous people of Hokkaido will soon have a wide domestic release. The ...

Yet the relationship between the Jomon and the Ainu is anything but straightforward. Sometime around A.D. 600 to 700 in Hokkaido, rectangular pit-houses suddenly appear, and a new type of earthenware ...

The far north of Japan has been home to the Ainu people for centuries, if not millennia, although they were only recognized by the Japanese government as an indigenous people in 2008. While the Ainu ...

To celebrate and preserve the history and culture of the Ainu, the Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park will open in Shiraoi, Hokkaido in April 2020. This is Hokkaido’s first national museum and the ...

A new law formally recognizes the Ainu minority in Japan as an “indigenous people” for the first time. A dozen years have passed since the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of ...

NIBUTANI, Japan — The salmon-skin boots and dugout canoes displayed here in the Ainu Historical Museum document the culture of an aboriginal people who have inhabited Japan for nearly 10,000 years.

SAPPORO--The president of Nippon Television Network Corp. apologized for a program in which a comedian used a derogatory word referring to Japan's indigenous Ainu ethnic minority of Hokkaido.