She posted on her blog photos of Tahara and other Ainu people, saying they are “a disgrace to Japan” and “the enemy is right in front of us! A large group of leftists.” Tahara read Sugita ...

took the unusual step of using a news program to apologize for another program that on March 12 used a pejorative to refer to the nation’s indigenous Ainu people. According to Jirota Mokottunas ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.