Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts will open its first hotel in Japan on April 3, 2025. Founded in New York in 1893, Waldorf Astoria is part of the Hilton family of brands, with 34 hotels across the ...

Located within the expansive Expo Memorial Park, the National Museum of Ethnology is Japan’s largest humanities and social sciences research institute. Its inte ...

Before Hokkaido was Hokkaido, it was known to mainland Japan as Ezo. Further back still, indigenous Ainu communities referred to the northern expanse as Ainu Mosir, a name they had used for untold ...

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.