Ghost of Yotei teases a ton of details about 1603 Japan, the Ainu, the Tokugawa Shogunate, and more that has us hyped for the ...

“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 ...

After more than a century of forced assimilation, the Ainu are set to be recognized as Indigenous for the first time. Japan’s rapid industrialization to become an economic superpower is ...

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 ...

to which he added his own modern twists. Among his major works was a design for the Ainu flag. Two years before his death from bone marrow cancer in 1989 at age 57, the artist was awarded the rare ...

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 ...

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The remains of four Ainu indigenous people have recently been ... The assimilation policy of the modern period coincided with academia disturbing the natural resting places and collecting so ...

And I hope that will also bring a return for traditional Ainu culture.

A Japanese scholar says Ghost of Yotei’s title is historically inaccurate, but given what we know about the setting, it’s ...

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Japan, one of the world’s most literate and technically advanced nations, is an East Asian country made up of four main islands. While most of Japan is covered by mountains and heavily wooded ...