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 ...

Soon after, discriminatory posts flooded online such as “Ainu? Middle-aged women in cosplay, right?” and “(Sugita) was criticizing an activist who is demeaning Japan. What’s wrong with ...

One woman of Ainu heritage, Shimada Akemi (pictured ... "Here in the city, we are often seen as foreigners or half-Japanese. When I first experienced that, I thought maybe it's preferable ...

But poorly understood, Japan’s indigenous Ainu people face a harsh reality ... where she met Sara Kappfjell, a young woman from Norway who is one of the northern European indigenous Sami ...

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 ...

Japan’s indigenous Ainu population, language and culture are emerging once more thanks to anime, the country’s thriving sub-cultures and YouTube. Maya Sekine is a 20-year-old Ainu woman ...

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 ...

The Japanese film "Songs of Kamui" is inspired by the story of a young Ainu woman, Chiri Yukie (1903-1922), who translated into Japanese an epic poem passed down orally among the indigenous people of ...

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 ...

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.