Momentum is building to safeguard a unique culture and its traditions, and honor ethnic diversity. The Ainu Measures Promotion Act, which came into force last year, is the first legal recognition ...

The Penn Museum, in collaboration with the Penn Libraries, recently launched various Ainu-themed programming, including a ...

An invaluable record of Ainu culture is finding an international audience almost 100 years after it was first published. "Ainu Shinyoshu," or "Collection of Ainu Songs of Gods," compiled by author ...

The Okhostk culture thrived in northern Hokkaido from the fifth to ninth centuries and may have provided the Ainu with some ...

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 ...

The Air Self-Defense Force is facing pressure to jettison its new aircraft logo amid criticisms from Ainu people indigenous to Hokkaido that it appropriates their culture. One Ainu group is ...

I want to tell the world that Japan has indigenous people Naraki leads tours of this kotan to teach visitors about her ...

In Japan, the Indigenous community known as the Ainu has been struggling to assert a 21st century identity after decades of erasure. About 20 years ago, the government officially recognized them as ...

Her path as a promoter of Ainu culture ranges from recording in-bus announcements in the Ainu language to teaching the language on Japanese radio and online. “Times have changed,” she says.

Despite this, Fukunaga notes that Motoki is not rejecting his culture: “At school, Motoki took the initiative in setting up a committee to introduce Ainu culture. He even became the committee chair.

He is exiled to Sakhalin as punishment for his involvement in a plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander III of Russia. While on the island, he creates a transcript of the language of its indigenous ...