In 2011, in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, Fujito was concerned about the effect of radioactive winds on his Ainu family and community on Hokkaido, Japan’s ...

For centuries, Ainu traded with Japanese from the mainland, known to them as Wajin. But in 1869, Japan’s imperial government annexed Ainu lands and banned “barbarian” practices like facial ...

Ainu Puri doesn’t shy away from these realities, but it brims with humanity and humor, largely courtesy of the engaging presence of Shigeki Amanai, his family and local community.

In his documentary “Ainu Puri,” Fukunaga takes a different approach by focusing on one Ainu family whose young patriarch, Shigeki Amanai, is trying to live a traditionally Ainu life in ...

Shigeru Kayano, one of the most well-known and respected Ainu figures of modern times, writes in his autobiography 'Our Land Was a Forest' about the loathing he felt as a young man for the shamo ...

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 ...

I am an Ainu. However, sometimes when I tell people I was born not in Hokkaidō, but in Tokyo, and was raised in Saitama Prefecture, it brings the conversation to a halt, as if they are thinking ...

Sekine was born and raised in Nibutani, Hokkaido, where about 80% of residents reportedly have Ainu heritage. But even there, knowledge of the language is scarce. "I think my family is a unique ...

ARRAY Releasing has secured the distribution rights to Ainu Mosir, the sophomore feature from writer and director Takeshi Fukunaga. The pic, which received a special jury mention at the 2020 ...

In the outskirts of a city in Hokkaido, an indigenous Ainu family faces discrimination from their Japanese neighbors, as well as various inter-family problems ...

Ainu Puri doesn’t shy away from these realities, but it brims with humanity and humor, largely courtesy of the engaging presence of Shigeki Amanai, his family and local community.Amanai revived ...