She is Ainu, an indigenous people who now live mostly on Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, but whose lands once spanned ...

I have encountered them before, but this sighting seemed significant because of their connection to the Ainu, the Indigenous people who live on Hokkaido and in other parts of Japan’s northern ...

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 ...

In 2019, Japan enforced a law that, for the first time, recognized the Ainu as an indigenous people in northern Japan and called for the protection and promotion of their culture.

The Ainu are a group of indigenous people from northern Japan. Japan is preparing to welcome a new era, with Emperor Akihito planning to abdicate at the end of April. The Ainu culture and language ...

The site is contemporaneous with the medieval Japanese to the south, who had been forging a nation-state for several centuries. The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of ...

The Ainu people indigenous to the northern Japanese archipelago, and especially to the island of Hokkaido, believe that when the gods descend from their realm to ours, they manifest as animals ...

We are so assimilated that you can’t tell who is Ainu or not.” Originally inhabiting the Northern area of Japan, Ainu people once populated the northern Tohoku region, Hokkaido, Sakhalin ...

After centuries of forced assimilation, Japan’s indigenous Ainu population, language and culture are emerging once more thanks to anime, the country’s thriving sub-cultures and YouTube.

Upopoy, an Ainu word meaning “singing together in a large group,” is the nickname of a new facility themed on the culture and history of the Ainu, an indigenous people of northern parts of ...

In a statement, the Japanese Embassy in London said: “The aim of the exhibition is to enable people in the U.K., keen to embrace different cultures, to experience firsthand the diversity of ...