Many archeologists consider the Ainu to be the last living descendants ... This is quite common in the New World, where many traditional Amerindian cultures known archeologically were also ...

Photographs on an opposite wall caught my eye, including a picture of Ms. Katsuya’s maternal grandmother in traditional Ainu garb and one of Ms. Katsuya herself and an imposing, bearded Ainu ...

It also has a display of traditional Ainu craft products. To reach Nibutani from Tokyo, flights from Haneda Airport to New Chitose Airport take 90 minutes. From there, it takes about one hour by car.

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 ...

The sound of the mukkuri resonates at the Ainu Thanksgiving Festival in 2022 in Yokohama. The traditional Ainu musical instrument is made of bamboo and can mimic the sounds of nature, including ...

The film features scenes of Sachiko Kibata teaching students the Ainu language and helping them rehearse for speech competitions, Reiko Kayano teaching sewing lessons for traditional Ainu clothing, ...

Toru Kaizawa, 61, who runs a traditional Ainu wood carving workshop in Nibutani, Hokkaido, still remembers one night from his long-ago childhood. He and his younger brother were sitting before a ...

But some Ainu people said they did not want the facility to focus on negative aspects of their history. In a section to learn about their traditional house, called “cise” (pronounced as chise ...

They pointed out that the Ainu people can get permission to fish for traditional rituals. In 2019, Japan enforced a law that, for the first time, recognized the Ainu as an indigenous people in ...

Through the Miriwoong-Ainu Language and Culture Exchange Project, the Indigenous communities of Miriwoong in Australia and Ainu in Japan are ...

After centuries of cultural assimilation, it is believed that most Ainu people left their traditional lands and the population is now scattered throughout Japan. Maya now attends the prestigious ...