“The exhibits alone may not help visitors fully understand why modern Ainu people are unable to speak their language, and why their traditions vanished,” he counters. A spokesperson says the ...

The assimilation policy of the modern period coincided with academia ... It is all too natural that the Ainu people embrace a strong distrust of the stance for solely looking conveniently toward ...

OTOINEPPU, Hokkaido--“Fukuro” (Owl), a 6-meter-high totem pole created by the renowned late contemporary Ainu ... people of Hokkaido and the Russian Far East, to which he added his own modern ...