It was an Ainu village I had come here to visit. Image A Yezo sika deer in Akan-Mashu National Park. The Ainu have long cooked dishes with the deer’s meat, and made crafts and jewelry using its ...

Yet the relationship between the Jomon and the Ainu is anything but straightforward ... So the Sakushukotoni-gawa site is not a Jomon village. Rather it represents a community of what, after ...

The Ainu girl is living in the local Ainu village and understands both Ainu and Japanese. The story takes place after 1905 in the latter part of the Meiji Era. Experts say there were many Ainu who ...

Upopoy is the Ainu term for “singing in a large group”. The new complex also features a traditional village, or kotan, and a memorial facility to honor the deceased. The National Ainu Museum ...

Exploring the presence of her traditional Ainu culture in contemporary life is central to the work of Mayunkiki (born 1982), an artist, language teacher, musician and cultural worker from ...

The wife refuses, as for an Ainu woman leaving her village is tantamount to disgrace. Bronisław never sees his daughter, who is born after he leaves. Bronisław returns to Poland through Hokkaido and ...

but she is originally from a small village called Nibutani in Hokkaido. The population of Nibutani is around 400, with approximately 80 percent of people being of Ainu descent. Maya hasn’t ...

Among his major works was a design for the Ainu flag. Two years before his death ... s Nakagawa Experimental Forest in Otoineppu village had already taken a beating prior to the strong winds.

SAPPORO--A lawsuit filed by a group of indigenous Ainu over fishing rights is effectively a test case aimed at confirming rights to land and natural resources that the ethnic minority had ...

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 ...