that the history of Hokkaido's indigenous people, the Ainu, was about to be rewritten. Since the mid-1970s I had been investigating the relationship between plants and people in prehistoric ...

Torii gates at the entrance to Akan-Mashu National Park on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of Japan. The area has long been home to a concentrated population of Indigenous people, the Ainu ...

The group contends the Ainu, who mainly inhabit Hokkaido, are not an indigenous people, unlike the Aborigines in Australia and Native Americans in the United States. It said the Jomon people ...

Find out the basis for such beliefs, along with what Hokkaido's Ainu have traditionally thought about the crane, the bear, the flying squirrel, and a host of other creatures. The excerpts below ...

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 ...

The Ainu, an indigenous people predominantly living in northern Japan, have a distinct language and rich cultural traditions. Although Hokkaido has the largest Ainu population, thousands also live ...

Japanese culture has all but assimilated the the Ainu, leaving few people even aware of their heritage. Hokkaido still offers opportunities to learn about and experience Ainu culture which informs ...

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 ...

Based on the hugely popular Satoru Noda manga, Netflix’s latest live action adaptation is a sequel to the 2024 Golden Kamuy ...

Formally named the National Ainu Museum and Park, Upopoy opened in July in Shiraoi, Hokkaido. The facility is designed to serve as the “national center” for restoring and promoting Ainu culture.

Around 1903, Piłsudski marries an Ainu woman, a relative of a chief. Continuing his enquiries, Piłsudski and another exile, Wacław Sieroszewski, go on an expedition to Hokkaido, where the Japanese ...

Originally inhabiting the Northern area of Japan, Ainu people once populated the northern Tohoku region, Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and to Kuril Island between the 17th century and 19th century ...