“The exhibits alone may not help visitors fully understand why modern Ainu people are unable to speak their language, and why their traditions vanished,” he counters. A spokesperson says the ...

A new documentary from the director Fukunaga Takeshi follows an Ainu family in Hokkaidō ... traditions take in a modern world. A talk with the director and the people featured in the film.

The assimilation policy of the modern period coincided with academia ... It is all too natural that the Ainu people embrace a strong distrust of the stance for solely looking conveniently toward ...

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

Ryoko Tahara, center, an Ainu activist, expresses her feelings at the hearing regarding human rights violation of discriminatory comments against Ainu people made by lawmaker Mio Sugita in the ...

The indigenous people of Northern Japan are using a Māori technique to revitalise their language, which is at risk of dying out. The Ainu language is listed as 'critically endangered', but ...