‘Yew’s Path’: Kuunatic emerge into their own mystical world, introducing the album with an eight-minute epic. It is a brooding epic awash with a dark atmosphere, providing an intriguing opening to ...

This small exhibition of photographs by Lorraine Turci takes us straight to Japan's northernmost island to discover the Ainu, ...

SAPPORO--Protesters denounced as hate speech an event here that claims the Ainu people are not indigenous to Japan, which flies in the face of the law of the land. About 30 people gathered outside ...

Sale Sharks show spirit but fall short of a famous European win as defending champions Toulouse win a Champions Cup tie that ...

While there is a perfectly logical scientific explanation for this algae, I like the Ainu story better– the land god wanted ...

We're all foreigners from a land we don't even come from. We've all migrated from somewhere, Africa, or Europe, etc. Even the Yamato Japanese have certainly migrated from China or of somewhere North.

Seinen AnimeBest Seinen AnimeAnime is not a world for children's eyes alone. While plenty of shows cater to a younger ...

The Ainu, mainland Japan’s ancient indigenous ... “I wanted to show my appreciation to the mountain gods,” Watanabe recalls. The land underlying northern Mishima is a field of lava.

The Air Self-Defense Force is facing pressure to jettison its new aircraft logo amid criticisms from Ainu people indigenous to Hokkaido that it appropriates their culture. One Ainu group is ...