Yamamichi is pleased by the growing interest in Ainu culture. But he says many people mistakenly believe that the Ainu still hunt, and live in traditional dwellings with thatched roofs.

The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of northeastern Japan ... the Ainu were living representatives of Jomon culture. However, the Ainu, at least in the last few ...

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 ...

In 1972, only 14 people could speak Ainu well enough to ... are just a few of the current efforts to spread awareness of Ainu culture. Still, Ainu remains one of the most endangered languages ...

But poorly understood, Japan’s indigenous Ainu people face a harsh reality, with their culture and language in danger of extinction. One of the world's biggest manga exhibitions will be held at ...

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

While on the island, he creates a transcript of the language of its indigenous inhabitants, the Ainu people. Piłsudski is much better known there, as in Poland he is greatly overshadowed by his ...

Upopoy, an Ainu word meaning “singing together in a large group,” is the nickname of a new facility themed on the culture and history of the Ainu, an indigenous people of northern parts of ...

She is passionately proud of her Ainu ancestry and culture, teaching the long dormant language to a new wave of people curious about the Ainu. She tells SBS Japanese that Ainu culture beginning to ...

Such a potentially large population of Satsumon people was hard to explain if they ... ancestral roots had to be sought elsewhere, and Ainu culture could no longer serve as a living model of ...