Jewelry makers and an embroiderer are among the craftspeople whose creations reflect the Indigenous people’s heritage. Torii gates at the entrance to Akan-Mashu National Park on Hokkaido, the ...

The Marimo Festival began in 1950 to protect Lake Akan’s Marimo, a Special Natural Monument of Japan, and return the green ...

Ghost of Yōtei shines a spotlight on Ainu culture, with a mix of authenticity and history to tell Japan’s untold indigenous ...

Japan's government introduced a bill Friday to recognise the country's ethnic Ainu minority as an "indigenous" people for the first time, after decades of discrimination against the group. Japan's ...

The documentary screening at Tokyo Film Festival takes a deeply human look at the lives of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan's Hokkaido. By Gavin J Blair As Shogun was bathing in the glory of its ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - On a wooded lake shore in northern Japan, the government is building a modernist shrine that has divided the indigenous Ainu community whose vanishing culture it was designed to ...

The University of Tokyo has issued a formal apology for “collecting and storing” the remains of Ainu and other indigenous ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - When Tsubasa Okitsu was growing up in northern Japan, he was ashamed of his heritage as an Ainu, an indigenous ethnic group that has long suffered discrimination in a country where ...

Sucker Punch also collaborated with two living filmmakers, Takashi Miike, director of historical movies like “13 Assassins,” and Shinichirō Watanabe, famous for anime series like “Cowboy Bebop” and ...