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 ...

Many archeologists consider the Ainu to be the last living descendants ... and for their stone tools, pit-house villages, and, by 1500 B.C., elaborate cemeteries marked by stone circles or high ...

The Ainu people are the indigenous people of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan's northernmost main island. They developed their own distinct language, history and culture, which were quite different from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sugita, who had lost in the 2014 Lower House election, was also an attendee. She posted on her blog photos of Tahara and other Ainu people, saying they are “a disgrace to Japan” and “the ...

Before Hokkaido was Hokkaido, it was known to mainland Japan as Ezo. Further back still, indigenous Ainu communities referred to the northern expanse as Ainu Mosir, a name they had used for untold ...

After centuries of forced assimilation, Japan’s indigenous Ainu population, language and culture are emerging once more thanks to anime, the country’s thriving sub-cultures and YouTube.