The Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park spotlights the Ainu, from the northern region of the Japanese archipelago. ... The Ainu word upopoy means “singing together in a large group. ...

Centuries before the Sea of Okhotsk entered Japan’s collective awareness, the Ainu were crisscrossing its waters from Hokkaidō to Kamchatka, playing a pivotal role in the region’s lively ...

Ainu were forced to abandon traditional hunting practices, ... The Ryukyu Kingdom – a string of islands from southern Japan’s Amami region to the Yaeyama islands near Taiwan ...

The students learn the Ainu language, dance and crafts, as well as about traditional food and hunting culture. It’s an example of changing attitudes towards the minority, whose land was annexed by ...

"We faced a terrible backlash," Honda, a professor of cultural studies at the university in the northern Hokkaido region, told AFP. "The issue of the Ainu was seen as a taboo, something that ...

The Ainu are an indigenous people of Japan who once formed the principal community in Hokkaido and northeast Honshu. ... with Ainu from the wider Biratori region brought in to populate one.

Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month by exploring the diversity of Japanese culture through OKI, a leading Ainu musician, who delivers indigenous sounds of Japan’s ...

If the Ainu people want to learn about their language and culture - fine. It's up to them and I wish them well. If non-Ainu people, including you and the Yamato Japanese, want to learn about the ...

In 2009, UNESCO in its “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” designated the Ainu language as being critically endangered. As the most dire of the five ...

Long admired for its snow-blanketed peaks, glacier blue lakes and bubbling volcanic hot springs, the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido has in recent years also become a thriving cultural ...