An Ainu ceremony known as Iyomante ... Visitors can also watch films to learn more about Ainu culture. The museum director is cultural anthropologist Sasaki Shiro. In an interview with NHK ...

The Penn Museum, in collaboration with the Penn Libraries, recently launched various Ainu-themed programming, including a ...

A new documentary from the director Fukunaga Takeshi follows an Ainu family in Hokkaidō, shedding light on questions of culture and the path traditions take in a modern world. A talk with the ...

speak the Japanese language and were slowly stripped of their culture and traditions, including their beloved bear ceremony.

“The Ainu people have the spirit of tolerance,” Tadashi Kato, executive director of the Ainu Association of Hokkaido, said at the opening ceremony ... the Ainu culture, which, along ...

they had few qualms about assuming the Ainu were living representatives of Jomon culture. However, the Ainu, at least in the last few centuries according to historic records, lived in above-ground ...

Spirituality. In Ainu culture, there are kamuy (spirit deities) within certain living things, elements and even tools, as well as kamuy that oversee some creatures. When you take food from the ...

Maya grew up surrounded by Ainu culture but noticed this was uncommon ... A Sami singer performed a joik at the opening ceremony of the Lillehammer Olympic Games. The performance impressed the ...

The Ainu believe that the world rests on the back of a giant trout, that otters caused human beings to be flawed, and that seeing an owl fly across the face of the moon at night is cause for great ...

In Japan, the Indigenous community known as the Ainu has been struggling to assert a 21st century identity after decades of erasure. About 20 years ago, the government officially recognized them as ...

After centuries of forced assimilation, Japan’s indigenous Ainu population, language and culture are emerging once more thanks to anime, the country’s thriving sub-cultures and YouTube.

“Our name is being lost,” she wrote of her culture and language disappearing ... As Higashikawa town in Hokkaido asked him to shoot the Ainu ceremony footage, he proposed to the town officials ...