The Ainu are an indigenous people who have been ... to teach the language and traditional handicrafts like the sewing of costumes called "Gakti" (in Northern Sami) as well as the cooking of ...

The issue originated from a 2016 blog post in which Sugita mocked ethnic Korean residents and Ainu indigenous people who wore traditional costumes at a meeting of the U.N. Committee on 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 ...

In the blog post in question, Sugita mocked ethnic Korean residents and Ainu aboriginal people who wore traditional costumes at a session of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination ...

Exploring the presence of her traditional Ainu culture in contemporary life is central to the work of Mayunkiki (born 1982), an artist, language teacher, musician and cultural worker from ...

The Ainu people are the indigenous people of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan's northernmost main island. They developed their own distinct language, history and culture, which were quite different from ...

Yet the relationship between the Jomon and the Ainu is anything but straightforward. Sometime around A.D. 600 to 700 in Hokkaido, rectangular pit-houses suddenly appear, and a new type of ...