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 ...

It features a brown bear’s head, a bird’s feathers and ... Shida pointed to the history of the Ainu people, who have long been exploited and discriminated against by Japanese colonizers.

The Ainu are a very spiritual people believing that everything from flora and fauna to animals had a spirit. In fact they ...

The Ainu people are the indigenous people of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan's northernmost main island. They developed their own distinct language, history and culture, which were quite different from ...

Find out the basis for such beliefs, along with what Hokkaido's Ainu have traditionally thought about the crane, the bear, the flying ... carefully recorded the people's folklore even as he ...

Historically, it’s the language of the Ainu people, an Indigenous community on the island of Hokkaido in Japan. In 1972, only 14 people could speak Ainu well enough to teach it. Today ...

The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan Hokkaido the northern island of Japan was previously called Ainumosir or land of the Ainu Ainu traditions are facing a critical situation the latest ...

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 indigenous people of Northern Japan are using a Māori technique to revitalise their language, which is at risk of dying ...

Upopoy, an Ainu word meaning “singing together in a large group,” is the nickname of a new facility themed on the culture and history of the Ainu, an indigenous people of northern parts of ...

She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has also appeared in Brides. Liam Payne was a proud father to his son Bear Grey. The One Direction alum, who died on Oct. 16 at age 31 after ...