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 ...

Because the Ainu had no written language, she used the Roman alphabet to express sounds with Japanese translations attached in parallel. The book was penned at a time when Ainu culture was fast ...

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 ...

The book is deemed as the first Ainu folklore put into print directly by a member of the ethnic group, which does not have its own written language system. In the work’s preface, Chiri describes ...

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 series depicts the Ainu language and culture in details in the story. The printed comic book series stretches to 17 volumes so far and sold more than nine million copies as of March this year.

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 ...