The Ainu people are the indigenous people of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan's northernmost main island. They developed their own distinct language, history and culture, which were quite different from ...

that the history of Hokkaido's indigenous people, the Ainu, was about to be rewritten. Since the mid-1970s I had been investigating the relationship between plants and people in prehistoric ...

Yet the relationship between the Jomon and the Ainu is anything but straightforward ... Such a potentially large population of Satsumon people was hard to explain if they were hunter-gatherers.

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 ...

The remains of four Ainu indigenous people have recently been returned from Australian museums and are back in Japan for the first time in about a century. Researchers actively excavated and ...

Emori Susumu, a professor emeritus at Tohoku Gakuin University in Miyagi Prefecture and an expert on Ainu history, says the museum will spur people’s interest, but doesn’t adequately explain ...

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 ...

The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan Hokkaido the northern island of Japan was previously called Ainumosir or land of the Ainu Ainu traditions are facing a critical situation the latest ...

But before we go on, it’s worth taking a look at the Ainu people’s history and culture. “The Ainu people don’t exist only in our history textbooks,” says Maya. “We blend into the ...

The area has long been home to a concentrated population of Indigenous people, the Ainu.Credit... Supported by By Vivian Morelli Photographs by Andrew Faulk Reporting from Kushiro, Japan At the ...