“The exhibits alone may not help visitors fully understand why modern Ainu people are unable to speak their language, and why their traditions vanished,” he counters. A spokesperson says the ...

The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of northeastern Japan, occupied the site. Many archeologists consider the Ainu to be the last living descendants of the Jomon ...

The remains of four Ainu indigenous people have recently been ... The assimilation policy of the modern period coincided with academia disturbing the natural resting places and collecting so ...

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 ...

to which he added his own modern twists. Among his major works was a design for the Ainu flag. Two years before his death from bone marrow cancer in 1989 at age 57, the artist was awarded the rare ...

Hokkaido still offers opportunities to learn about and experience Ainu culture which informs certain aspects of modern Japanese society on the island. Hokkaido's economy and culture have strong ...

Further back still, indigenous Ainu communities referred to the northern ... a collection of communities that migrated throughout the modern-day Sea of Okhotsk from the 4th to the 12th centuries.

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