To the Ainu, bears represent the ultimate incarnation of a god. So, a less-skilled translator — perhaps lacking a flair for marketing — might have rendered it as “Kamui Mintara, A (Dangerous ...

An Ainu ceremony known as Iyomante, in which people shoot arrows at a brown bear cub regarded as a god. It’s based on the belief that sending the bear’s spirits back to the divine world will ...

One Ainu group is petitioning the force and the ... on the vertical tail wings of its aircraft. It features a brown bear’s head, a bird’s feathers and an arabesque design, with the central ...

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 ...

Documentary investigating a film made of the Ainu bear ceremony by Neil Gordon Munro, who studied the Ainu culture for thirty years before settling in Nibutani for the last twelve years of his life.