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 ...

Based on the hugely popular Satoru Noda manga, Netflix’s latest live action adaptation is a sequel to the 2024 Golden Kamuy film. The nine-episode series first aired in October 2024 in its native ...

His view was that few works cast light particularly on the history of discrimination against the Ainu, although the hit manga “Golden Kamuy,” starring an Ainu heroine in the closing days of ...

The following contains spoilers for the Golden Kamuy (2024) live-action adaptation. To the Ainu people, indigenous people from the cold northern island of Hokkaido in Japan, God lives in everything.

For the Ainu people, this ritual holds deep spiritual meaning. The crane is believed to be a messenger of Sarorun Kamuy, the god of the wetlands, and its dance mirrors the rhythms of the natural ...

The museum chose an Ainu character from the comic "Golden Kamuy" by Satoru Noda to appear on its advertisement for the event. The Ainu are an indigenous people who have been living mainly in 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 recent years, there has been a fresh wave of interest in the Ainu people, due partly to “Golden Kamuy,” a manga series about a man hunting for lumps of gold left by the Ainu people ...

She tells SBS Japanese that Ainu culture beginning to flourish once again, thanks in part to people such as herself, but also thanks to the likes of anime series Golden Kamuy. But before we go on ...

Clearly, Ainu culture was far removed from the Jomon. How had this earlier characterization of the Ainu as hunters of the northern Japanese forests evolved? For one thing, few actually witnessed ...