An Ainu woman is no longer remaining silent but speaking out against a lawmaker’s continued discriminatory remarks toward the Ainu indigenous people, which have been officially recognized as hum ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Otherwise, the hostile islanders were largely left alone until the mid 20th century, though Portman conducted anthropological research on other Andamanese tribes (seen below). A decade later ...

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 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 ...

But in the last 20 years since the tsunami, Great Andamanese tribes - among the most threatened Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) - have doubled from an estimated 35 before tsunami to ...