The documentary screening at Tokyo Film Festival takes a deeply human look at the lives of the indigenous Ainu people of ...

The Ainu, an indigenous people predominantly living in northern Japan, have a distinct language and rich cultural traditions. Although Hokkaido has the largest Ainu population, thousands also live ...

A new national museum is putting the spotlight on Japan’s Ainu indigenous ... Ainu as an indigenous people from the northern part of the Japanese archipelago, mainly Hokkaido.

but it was not always part of the larger nation of Japan. Prior to 1869, Hokkaido was ruled by the native Ainu people, who also resided among the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin Island. During this ...

"In 1590, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, one of the three unifiers of Japan, commissioned the Matsumae clan to take over the island of Hokkaido, occupied by the Ainu people, and defend it against what he saw ...

The Ainu Association of Hokkaido acknowledged it has little ... legally recognizing them as indigenous people in Japan. But the law has been criticized for falling short and the Ainu continue ...

Japanese director Takeshi Fukunaga was caked in mud and sweat in a small village on Hokkaido. He was there with a tiny crew to shoot a bear ritual of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan’s ...

Japanese director Takeshi Fukunaga was caked in mud and sweat in a small village on Hokkaido. He was there with a tiny crew to shoot a bear ritual of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan’s northernmost ...