Naraki continued showing us around the Ainu kotan (village). Still smiling, she pointed to a wooden, cupboard-like structure.

It was an Ainu village I had come here to visit. Image A Yezo sika deer in Akan-Mashu National Park. The Ainu have long cooked dishes with the deer’s meat, and made crafts and jewelry using its ...

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 ...

Upopoy is the Ainu term for “singing in a large group”. The new complex also features a traditional village, or kotan, and a memorial facility to honor the deceased. The National Ainu Museum ...

The Ainu girl is living in the local Ainu village and understands both Ainu and Japanese. The story takes place after 1905 in the latter part of the Meiji Era. Experts say there were many Ainu who ...

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 ...

but she is originally from a small village called Nibutani in Hokkaido. The population of Nibutani is around 400, with approximately 80 percent of people being of Ainu descent. Maya hasn’t ...

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 ...

Among his major works was a design for the Ainu flag. Two years before his death ... s Nakagawa Experimental Forest in Otoineppu village had already taken a beating prior to the strong winds.