Beyond Ainu studies: an introduction / Mark K. Watson, ann-elise lewallen, and Mark J. Hudson -- Ainu ethnography: historical representations in the West / Hans Dieter Ölschleger -- Tourists, ...

I am an Ainu. However, sometimes when I tell people I was born not in Hokkaidō, but in Tokyo, and was raised in Saitama Prefecture, it brings the conversation to a halt, as if they are thinking, “Oh, ...

Previously slated to open in April 2020, the Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park in Shiraoi, Hokkaido, was unfortunately delayed due to Covid-19 coronavirus. Better late than never, Upopoy finally ...

SHIRAOI, Hokkaido—The skulls of three Ainu individuals were returned from Britain to Hokkaido, the third repatriation of the indigenous people’s remains from overseas. So far, eight sets of Ainu ...

A new law formally recognizes the Ainu minority in Japan as an “indigenous people” for the first time. A dozen years have passed since the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of ...

A film inspired by the story of a young Ainu woman who translated into Japanese an epic poem passed down orally among the indigenous people of Hokkaido will soon have a wide domestic release. The ...

NIBUTANI, Japan — The salmon-skin boots and dugout canoes displayed here in the Ainu Historical Museum document the culture of an aboriginal people who have inhabited Japan for nearly 10,000 years.

Chances are you haven’t met an Ainu speaker in Japan. After all, Google’s Endangered Languages Project puts the number of native speakers at fewer than five. But the Ainu people once populated a wide ...

“But the land they gave to the Ainu was unsuitable for farming,” Abe said. “And while they gave us Ainu 10,000 hectares per family, they gave the Japanese settlers 100,000 hectares per person.” ...