apologized for a program in which a comedian used a derogatory word referring to Japan's indigenous Ainu ethnic minority of Hokkaido. Yoshinobu Kosugi offered an apology at a regular general ...

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 ...

The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of northeastern Japan, occupied the site. Many archeologists consider the Ainu to be the last living descendants of the Jomon ...

Exploring the presence of her traditional Ainu culture in contemporary life is central to the work of Mayunkiki (born 1982), an artist, language teacher, musician and cultural worker from ...

An invaluable record of Ainu culture is finding an international audience almost 100 years after it was first published. "Ainu Shinyoshu," or "Collection of Ainu Songs of Gods," compiled by author ...

A new national museum is putting the spotlight on Japan’s Ainu indigenous people. Upopoy, a sprawling complex also known as the Symbolic Space for Ethnic Harmony, opened in the northernmost ...

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 ...

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.