Through the Miriwoong-Ainu Language and Culture Exchange Project, the Indigenous communities of Miriwoong in Australia and Ainu in Japan are ...

Still, the Ainu have maintained their own language, crafts and cultural practices. And one place where their arts and crafts can be found is Ainu Kotan, a village inside the national park.

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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.

Located within the expansive Expo Memorial Park, the National Museum of Ethnology is Japan’s largest humanities and social sciences research institute. Its inte ...

Beginning with the Ainu language, their religious views hold that souls reside in everything in the natural world and these have led to the development of a unique culture as witnessed in their ...

Photo: the crater basin of Mt. Usu, with Uchiura Bay in the distance. Himemasu, also known as chep in the Ainu language, is a type of landlocked kokanee salmon that now inhabit the waters of Lake ...

Before Hokkaido was Hokkaido, it was known to mainland Japan as Ezo. Further back still, indigenous Ainu communities referred to the northern expanse as Ainu Mosir, a name they had used for untold ...