The documentary screening at Tokyo Film Festival takes a deeply human look at the lives of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan's Hokkaido. By Gavin J Blair As Shogun was bathing in the glory of its ...

The Penn Museum, in collaboration with the Penn Libraries, recently launched various Ainu-themed programming, including a documentary screening and an ongoing exhibit on Ainu representation in media.

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido is well known for its world-class powder snow, delicious food and unspoiled nature. Few people outside the country, however, are ...

In a new entry on Sony’s official PlayStation blog, Sucker Punch Productions' co-creative director Nate Fox shared more insight into the research trips the Ghost of Yotei team took to Japan. Following ...

Jo Craig (they/them) is a writer on Game Rant from Scotland and has been in the industry for nearly a decade dissecting comic book movie trailers for hours and diving headfirst into horror. They still ...

A group representing the Indigenous people has sued to regain the right, lost over a century ago, to freely fish for salmon in a Hokkaido river. By Motoko Rich and Hikari Hida Reporting from Urahoro ...

I, too, have often thought of Hokkaido as a frontier. But I am mindful of historian Brett L. Walker’s explanation of why this is problematic. In The Conquest of Ainu Lands he writes: “As a conceptual ...

As Shogun was bathing in the glory of its record 18 wins at the Emmy Awards ceremony at Los Angeles' Peacock Theater in September, Japanese director Takeshi Fukunaga was caked in mud and sweat in a ...