But some Ainu people said they did not want the facility to focus on negative aspects of their history. In a section to learn about their traditional house, called “cise” (pronounced as chise ...

Many archeologists consider the Ainu to be the last living descendants ... and for their stone tools, pit-house villages, and, by 1500 B.C., elaborate cemeteries marked by stone circles or high ...

Ainu Mosir features a scene from the Marimo Festival ... “I remember one time the cameraman and sound engineer were in the house, and I didn’t know. They were wearing special socks, so ...

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 ...

Sugita, who had lost in the 2014 Lower House election, was also an attendee. She posted on her blog photos of Tahara and other Ainu people, saying they are “a disgrace to Japan” and “the ...

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 ...