Characters speak the Ainu language quite often, and Ainu rituals and hunting style are introduced. The Ainu girl is living in the local Ainu village and understands both Ainu and Japanese.

The director had been commissioned to film an Ainu ritual, but the idea made him feel uncomfortable. His view was that few works cast light particularly on the history of discrimination against ...

The Ainu people are the indigenous people of Hokkaido ... and they practiced many seasonal rituals to give thanks for the blessings of nature. On this episode of Journeys in Japan, US filmmaker ...

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 ...

Watch the presentation "A New Mobile Life for Endangered Languages" here: Ainu is a language isolate, meaning it isn’t related to any other known language. Historically, it’s the language of ...

From that moment on, Bronisław writes down fables, legends and rituals of the local peoples. In the southern part of the island he meets the Ainu people. Because of their appearance, they are ...

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 ...

Japan's Ainu culture is showcased at the Upopoy National Ainu Museum & Park in Hokkaido. Here visitors can explore Ainu history, language and crafts and immerse themselves in indigenous traditions.

This film focuses on IOMANTE ritual that is to liberate the souls of the Gods from the furs and meat and send them back to the Land of the Gods The Ainu believed that bears were Gods The Gods come ...

The Ainu make clothes from tree bark and boots from salmon skin. The most important Ainu ritual was the bear sacrifice. A bear cub was raised and pandered in a village for a year before it was ...