Ainu woman fights Sugita’s discriminatory remarks

An Ainu woman is no longer remaining silent but speaking out against a lawmaker’s continued discriminatory remarks toward the ...
The Economist

Japan’s Ainu people have a new museum. Many feel it omits a lot

FROM A DISTANCE, the National Ainu Museum glistens. When the sleek concrete-and-glass structure opened in 2020, it became the first national museum dedicated to the oft-forgotten indigenous people of ...

Hokkaido event draws protests for denying Ainu are indigenous

SAPPORO--Protesters denounced as hate speech an event here that claims the Ainu people are not indigenous to Japan, which ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Penn Museum, Libraries launch Ainu-themed exhibit and documentary screening

The Penn Museum, in collaboration with the Penn Libraries, recently launched various Ainu-themed programming, including a documentary screening and an ongoing exhibit on Ainu representation in media.
The New York Times

‘Ainu Mosir’ Review: A Crisis of Cultural Identity

This quietly observed drama follows a teenager living in a community of Ainu people in Hokkaido, Japan struggling to preserve their culture. By Natalia Winkelman When you purchase a ticket for an ...
Deadline.com

‘Ainu Mosir’ Trailer: Takeshi Fukunaga’s Coming-Of-Age Drama Spotlights Struggle Of Cultural Preservation In Modern Society

Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing has dropped a trailer and a poster for the upcoming coming-of-age drama Ainu Mosir (“the quiet earth where humans dwell”) directed by Takeshi Fukunaga. The film is set ...

Ainu remains return to Japan from London's Natural History Museum after over 100 yrs

The remains of seven Ainu people were returned Friday to Japan from London's Natural History Museum after more than 100 years ...

British museum hands over remains of indigenous Ainu people to Japan

The Natural History Museum in London has returned the ancestral remains of seven indigenous Ainu people to Japan at the ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Tokyo: ‘Ainu Puri’ Director Takeshi Fukunaga On Raising Awareness of the Ainu People

The documentary screening at Tokyo Film Festival takes a deeply human look at the lives of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan's Hokkaido. By Gavin J Blair As Shogun was bathing in the glory of its ...
Channel 3000

Japan’s ‘vanishing’ Ainu will be recognized as indigenous people

Growing up in Japan, musician Oki Kano never knew he was part of a “vanishing people.” His Japanese mother was divorced and never told Kano that his birth father was an indigenous Ainu man. Kano was ...
standardmedia.co.ke

Japan to recognise indigenous Ainu people for first time

Japan's government introduced a bill Friday to recognise the country's ethnic Ainu minority as an "indigenous" people for the first time, after decades of discrimination against the group. The Ainu ...
The Japan Times

Ainu indigenous group demands return of ancestors' remains

The group filed a lawsuit demanding that the remains of 279 Ainu ancestors held by a state facility be returned to their ...