“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 ...

leaving few people even aware of their heritage. Hokkaido still offers opportunities to learn about and experience Ainu culture which informs certain aspects of modern Japanese society on the island.

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 ...