Continuing his enquiries, Piłsudski and another exile, Wacław Sieroszewski, go on an expedition to Hokkaido, where the Japanese forcefully resettled the majority of the Ainu. The researchers register ...

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 ...

SAPPORO--The president of Nippon Television Network Corp. apologized for a program in which a comedian used a derogatory word referring to Japan's indigenous Ainu ethnic minority of Hokkaido.