To the Ainu, bears represent the ultimate incarnation of a god. So, a less-skilled translator — perhaps lacking a flair for marketing — might have rendered it as “Kamui Mintara, A (Dangerous ...

including their beloved bear ceremony. Due to the wide stigmatisation, many Ainu hid their ancestry. And the long-term ...

Find out the basis for such beliefs, along with what Hokkaido's Ainu have traditionally thought about the crane, the bear, the flying squirrel, and a host of other creatures. The excerpts below ...

One Ainu group is petitioning the force and the ... on the vertical tail wings of its aircraft. It features a brown bear’s head, a bird’s feathers and an arabesque design, with the central ...

An Ainu ceremony known as Iyomante, in which people shoot arrows at a brown bear cub regarded as a god. It’s based on the belief that sending the bear’s spirits back to the divine world will ...

The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of northeastern Japan, occupied the site. Many archeologists consider the Ainu to be the last living descendants of the Jomon ...

The Penn Museum, in collaboration with the Penn Libraries, recently launched various Ainu-themed programming, including a documentary screening and an ongoing exhibit on Ainu representation in media.