In winter, Japan’s northernmost main island Hokkaido is a place of snow-covered forests and white-crested volcanoes mirrored ...

An item listed as an Ainu “family register ledger” was sold on Yahoo Auctions, drawing outrage from members of the indigenous ...

The Karop is the rare Ainu Finding that’s found inside an Occupied Location. Specifically it’s in the Marshland Homestead on the northern side of the Tomamu Marshlands. The Marshlands are on the ...

Hyderabad: Asian Institute of Nephrology and Urology (AINU) successfully performed a kidney transplant on a 25-year-young ...

The government has said that the remains of five Ainu people will be returned from the Natural History Museum in Britain to Japan. In early fiscal 2026, which begins next April, officials from the ...

The Japanese government said Friday that the remains of five Ainu people will be returned from the Natural History Museum in Britain to Japan. In early fiscal 2026, which begins next April, officials ...

Shimoji Lawrence Yoshitaka clearly remembers the first time he became aware of himself as potentially belonging to a “minority” within Japanese society. He was a university student at the time, ...

Here's a few things to note about Ainu Items before we get started: A few Ainu Items can be found in multiple locations! This page lists the earliest, most southerly spots they can be found. If you ...

I, too, have often thought of Hokkaido as a frontier. But I am mindful of historian Brett L. Walker’s explanation of why this is problematic. In The Conquest of Ainu Lands he writes: “As a conceptual ...