Yet the relationship between the Jomon and the Ainu is anything but straightforward. Sometime around A.D. 600 to 700 in Hokkaido, rectangular pit-houses suddenly appear, and a new type of earthenware ...

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On a wooded lake shore in southwest Hokkaido, the government is building a modernist shrine that has divided the indigenous Ainu community whose vanishing culture it was designed to celebrate. At a ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido is well known for its world-class powder snow, delicious food and unspoiled nature. Few people outside the country, however, are ...

This is a story of two very different halves. But I'm getting ahead of myself; let's start at the beginning. On first glance, Nibutani looks like any other rural Japanese village. Modest and ...

Kengo Takiguchi, left, is seen explaining the use of plants to coexist with nature, on the shores of Lake Akan, Hokkaido, on July 13, 2023. (Mainichi/Hiroaki Homma) KUSHIRO, Hokkaido -- A test run of ...

After more than a century of forced assimilation, the Ainu are set to be recognized as Indigenous for the first time. Japan’s rapid industrialization to become an economic superpower is remembered ...

The skulls of three indigenous Ainu people have been returned to their community by a university. The remains, which have been held at the University of Edinburgh’s Anatomical Museum for more than 100 ...

The ringing telephone broke the evening silence. It was the fall of 1983, and my research partner, Professor Masakazu Yoshizaki, was calling from Japan. "Gary, I have some news," Yoshi said. "We have ...

Must feel culturally strange, after all, these are strange times, however necessary under the circumstances. The traditional Ainu dance and musical performances are a must see. Great news. Hopefully ...