Mayunkiki is an artist with Ainu root and began to disseminate Ainu culture. In recent years, her unique view of the world ...

“Now the marshes have disappeared because of the dam.” The film also contained traditional Ainu music — provided by the Biratori Ainu Culture Association — as attributed by the film’s website. The ...

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 ...

SAPPORO--The president of Nippon Television Network Corp. apologized for a program in which a comedian used a derogatory word referring to Japan's indigenous Ainu ethnic minority of Hokkaido.

A new national museum is putting the spotlight on Japan’s Ainu indigenous people. Upopoy, a sprawling complex also known as the Symbolic Space for Ethnic Harmony, opened in the northernmost ...