where the Japanese forcefully resettled the majority of the Ainu. The researchers register their conversations, rituals, singing and music on 100 Edison wax cylinder phonographs. However, the outbreak ...

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 ...

A new national museum is putting the spotlight on Japan’s Ainu indigenous people. Upopoy, a sprawling complex also known as the Symbolic Space for Ethnic Harmony, opened in the northernmost ...