Tim Anderson’s new book, Hokkaido, is inspired by Japan’s northernmost prefecture, where Western influences and Indigenous ...

The festival was organized by Shimada Akemi, the head of a group that aims to increase awareness of Ainu culture in the Tokyo region and connect community members with their heritage through ...

Archeologists and historians have long described the Ainu, like the Jomon, as hunter-fisher-collectors and, because the two peoples lived in the same region, they had few qualms about assuming the ...