Shizue Ukaji gives a lecture in the city of Yokohama's Kanazawa Ward in Kanagawa Prefecture on April 17, 2021. (Mainichi/Nami Takata) Shizue Ukaji's cloth artwork with traditional Ainu embroidery is ...

Exploring the presence of her traditional Ainu culture in contemporary life is central to the work of Mayunkiki (born 1982), an artist, language teacher, musician and cultural worker from Asahikawa in ...

Like other indigenous groups, the Ainu people of Hokkaido and the north-eastern Honshu island of Japan have experienced marginalization. After the Japanese government annexed their territory in 1890, ...

Of all the indigenous people of Japan, the Ainu are arguably the most well recognized throughout both the Japanese and international communities, and yet despite that, so little is really known about ...

The annual Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia in Tokyo is one of the largest and most important short film festivals in the region. And that’s because the winners in two categories – Official ...

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 ...

The Ainu are Japan’s indigenous people who live in the northern island of Hokkaido. Before Japan took control of Hokkaido in the 1800s, they lived autonomously by hunting, fishing and gathering, while ...