Akan, in eastern Hokkaido, is renowned for its breathtaking winter landscape with majestic volcanic mountains and ice-blanketed lake. The area is home to an indigenous Ainu community, which has long ...

As Shogun was bathing in the glory of its record 18 wins at the Emmy Awards ceremony at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater in September, Japanese director Takeshi Fukunaga was caked in mud and sweat in a ...

Japan's government introduced a bill Friday to recognise the country's ethnic Ainu minority as an "indigenous" people for the first time, after decades of discrimination against the group. The Ainu ...

Contemporary Lives by the Saru River appeared at Japan House London in 2023/24 and welcomed over 160,000 visitors. Following a visit from National Museum of Lithuania's curators, elements of the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - On a wooded lake shore in northern Japan, the government is building a modernist shrine that has divided the indigenous Ainu community whose vanishing culture it was designed to ...

The ainu of japan have long been almost invisible in a society that likes to consider itself racially homogenous. Often they hide themselves. Yuki Hasegawa, for instance, grew up thinking she was ...

"This electronic presentation documents the exhibition "Ainu: spirit of a northern people". The exhibit was on display at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, April 30, ...

Want to watch 'Ainu Indigenous People of Japan' tonight? Here are a few key highlights to round things out about the history flick. Ainu Indigenous People of Japan starring has a Not Rated rating, a ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Jesse Francis McClendon was born in Lanett, Alabama, in 1880. He studied zoology and invertebate zoology at the University of Texas (BS, 1903 and ...

The documentary screening at Tokyo Film Festival takes a deeply human look at the lives of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan's Hokkaido. By Gavin J Blair As Shogun was bathing in the glory of its ...