The Indigenous Japanese artist will talk about her artistic practice following a song performance at Art Basel Hong Kong, ahead of a presentation of her work at the Aichi Triennale 2025 ...

This small exhibition of photographs by Lorraine Turci takes us straight to Japan's northernmost island to discover the Ainu, ...

These destinations, which inspired many iconic Studio Ghibli movies, deserve a spot on your Japan bucket list for all the ...

‘Yew’s Path’: Kuunatic emerge into their own mystical world, introducing the album with an eight-minute epic. It is a brooding epic awash with a dark atmosphere, providing an intriguing opening to ...

Shida pointed to the history of the Ainu people, who have long been exploited and discriminated against by Japanese colonizers. “There are some among the Ainu people who react strongly against ...

SAPPORO--Protesters denounced as hate speech an event here that claims the Ainu people are not indigenous to Japan, which flies in the face of the law of the land. About 30 people gathered outside ...

I just rewatched this scene, so I remember it well. This genre is called Shima-uta. It’s an Amami Shoto song, from the ...

The video explores this transition, delving into the Ainu people’s culture and their complex interactions with Japanese clans, particularly the Matsumae, who dominated Hokkaido. It examines the ...

This article was published in the Autumn 2024 issue of Litterae Populi. The full issue can be found here.Much of bear ecology ...

It includes these Okinawan musical influences, and from episode 16 onwards there’s the Ainu culture, the indigenous people in Northern Japan, which was later famously used in the series Golden ...

Here is a link to sign the statement. The statement in Japanese is here.  In responding to calls by Palestinians and condemning Israel’s settler ...

We've all migrated from somewhere, Africa, or Europe, etc. Even the Yamato Japanese have certainly migrated from China or of somewhere North. Genetically, the Ainu's are the true natives of Japan, and ...