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 ...

It has about 10,000 items, including tools that the Ainu used in their daily lives. The displays are divided into six sections, each with different themes such as history and language. Visitors ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Watch the presentation "A New Mobile Life for Endangered Languages" here: Ainu is a language isolate, meaning it isn’t related to any other known language. Historically, it’s the language of ...

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 director had been commissioned to film an Ainu ritual, but the idea made him feel uncomfortable. His view was that few works cast light particularly on the history of discrimination against ...

The Ainu were officially recognized as Indigenous peoples by the Japanese government in 2008, marking a new chapter in their long history. In 2004 Hirofumi established a new model of collaborative ...