"Ainu Shinyoshu," or "Collection of Ainu Songs of Gods," compiled by author Chiri Yukie, has recently been translated into dozens of languages. The compilation, first published in 1923, contains ...

The protagonist of “Kamui no Uta” (Songs of Kamui) named Teru is modeled ... but she is rejected due to being of Ainu descent. She becomes the first Ainu student to enter a vocational ...

Upopoy occupies an about 10-hectare site. Visitors can experience Ainu song and dance performances. Yamamichi Yomaru is an Ainu who works at Upopoy. The 31-year-old was raised in the town of ...

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 ...

Ainu Mosir features a scene from the Marimo Festival, an important event in Ainu Kotan. Shige, who lives in Shiranuka, more than 80 kilometers from Lake Akan, also participated in this festival.

After centuries of forced assimilation, Japan’s indigenous Ainu population, language and culture are emerging once more thanks to anime, the country’s thriving sub-cultures and YouTube.

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 ...

They recorded themselves singing traditional songs from their respective cultures, with 55 languages—including Hokkaido Ainu, Basque, Cherokee, Māori, Rikbaktsa, Ukrainian, Xhosa and Yoruba ...