"The elders would resolve any disputes in the village," Naraki said. If no one could agree, they would discuss for three days ...

The screening featured the 2018 documentary, “Ainu: Indigenous People of Japan,” which follows four Ainu elders in Biratori, Hokkaido, and the ways they contribute to the preservation of Ainu culture.

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 Ainu believe that the world rests on the back of a giant trout, that otters caused human beings to be flawed, and that seeing an owl fly across the face of the moon at night is cause for great ...

SAPPORO--A lawsuit filed by a group of indigenous Ainu over fishing rights is effectively a test case aimed at confirming rights to land and natural resources that the ethnic minority had ...

A new national museum is putting the spotlight on Japan’s Ainu indigenous people. Upopoy, a sprawling complex also known as the Symbolic Space for Ethnic Harmony, opened in the northernmost ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Noell Wilson details the Japanese state's attempt to accelerate Ainu integration of Ezochi (modern-day Hokkaido) into the Tokugawa ...