After centuries of forced assimilation, Japan’s indigenous Ainu population, language and culture are emerging once more ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

This is not the first presentation of the Biratori Ainu in London; a delegation was brought to the city in 1910 for a very different display of Japanese culture. Aside from this exhibition ...

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

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.

Research and Teaching Interests: Japanese language, culture, and literature; Afro-Japan relations; Hip-hop and jazz in Japan; Anime and manga; Critical race and identity studies; Okinawan and Ainu ...