“The Ainu people are an indigenous people who have lived in the northern part of the Japanese Archipelago, especially in Hokkaidō.” This clause is included in Article One of the New Ainu Policy, ...

"Imagine this place," says Italian photographer Laura Liverani, as she tries to conjure up a picture of Nibutani, the village where she spent two months living with and photographing the indigenous ...

The Ainu word upopoy means “singing together in a large group.” The complex houses the National Ainu Museum, a cultural exchange hall, workshop, craft studio and a model of a traditional Ainu village.

TOKYO, Oct 29 (Reuters) - On a wooded lake shore in northern Japan, the government is building a modernist shrine that has divided the indigenous Ainu community whose vanishing culture it was designed ...

On a wooded lake shore in southwest Hokkaido, the government is building a modernist shrine that has divided the indigenous Ainu community whose vanishing culture it was designed to celebrate. At a ...

For the first time ever, craftspeople in Japan have brought together two unique creative traditions: the intricate patterns of indigenous Ainu artists from Hokkaido, and the ceramic potteries of Arita ...

Earlier this month, a group of IPinCH team members, including myself, Joe Watkins, Hirofumi Kato, Dave Schaepe, Rachel Giraudo, Carol Ellick, and Mayumi Okado, participated in a symposium on cultural ...

I am an Ainu. However, sometimes when I tell people I was born not in Hokkaidō, but in Tokyo, and was raised in Saitama Prefecture, it brings the conversation to a halt, as if they are thinking, “Oh, ...

The Ainu of Hokkaido in Japan were not officially recognised as an indigenous people until 2008. This recognition came after a long history of exclusion and assimilation that almost erased their ...