The Indigenous Japanese artist will talk about her artistic practice following a song performance at Art Basel Hong Kong, ...

Rewriting the Ainu Story Having slept fitfully after a ... it would change the whole way you thought about your family history. An electron microscope image of a grain of barley from the ...

Shimada was born into an Ainu family in Hokkaido. At 20, she moved to Kawasaki, a city between Yokohama and Tokyo, to work for an electronics manufacturer. Shimada Akemi at age 18. Shimada recalls ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

While on the island, he creates a transcript of the language of its indigenous inhabitants, the Ainu people. Piłsudski is much better known there, as in Poland he is greatly overshadowed by his ...

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.

But in early 20th-century Japan, Teru is excluded because she is Ainu. Instead of writing, the Ainu—indigenous people from Japan’s Hokkaido island—pass down their traditions through yukar ...

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 ...