Formally named the National Ainu Museum and Park, Upopoy opened in July in Shiraoi, Hokkaido. The facility is designed to serve as the “national center” for restoring and promoting Ainu culture.

According to Upopoy, the national Ainu museum on Hokkaido, the roots of the Ainu go back about 30,000 years. No one is sure how many Ainu live in Japan today; there are no official tallies and ...

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 pride is especially evident in the centre's small, well-kept museum, where Ainu artefacts, such as traditional clothing ...

A new national museum is putting the spotlight on Japan’s Ainu indigenous people. Upopoy, a sprawling complex also known as the Symbolic Space for Ethnic Harmony, opened in the northernmost ...

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 ...

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

A manga spotlights the Ainu One of the world's biggest manga exhibitions will be held at the British Museum in May 2019. The museum chose an Ainu character from the comic "Golden Kamuy" by Satoru ...

The Ainu believe that the world rests on the back of a giant trout, that otters caused human beings to be flawed, and that seeing an owl fly across the face of the moon at night is cause for great ...

Sugawara decided to make the movie after he met with Kenichi Kawamura, the late director of the Kawamura Kaneto Ainu Memorial Museum in Hokkaido’s Asahikawa, a few years ago. The director had ...