After the announcement, an Ainu man set off debate on social media when he tweeted that the logo is an “appropriation of Ainu culture.” One scholar said since indigenous imagery is not ...

“We’ll cooperate with the broadcaster to help it air the correct history and culture of the Ainu.” One man who attended the meeting said he felt Nippon Television was making a sincere effort ...

Lithograph, published in 1893. History of Japan, Hairy Ainu man, Ainu are an indigenous ethnic group who reside in northern Japan, Vintage photograph, 19th Century History of Japan, Hairy Ainu man, ...

The Ainu people are the indigenous people of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan's northernmost main island. They developed their own distinct language, history and culture, which were quite different from ...

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 ...