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The second live-action Golden Kamuy film, Abashiri Prison Raid, begins streaming globally on Netflix today, July 13, 2026 — delivering to international audiences what no academic institution, museum, ...

The second live-action Golden Kamuy film brings the manga's turning-point arc to Netflix worldwide on 13 July, the moment the ...

For all the neon cacophony of modern Japan, it is a country that radiates profound, seductive stillness. Nowhere is this more ...

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This holds a very significant meaning when discussing the culture of the Ainu people. The Ainu people did not have their own writing system to record their language. The stories of the gods, Kamuy ...

I, too, have often thought of Hokkaido as a frontier. But I am mindful of historian Brett L. Walker’s explanation of why this is problematic. In The Conquest of Ainu Lands he writes: “As a conceptual ...

Like the Aborigines and Native Americans, Japan has its own indigenous people. They are the Ainu, who live in the northern lands. One of their major strongholds is Ainu Kotan (Kotan means "village") ...

Nuclear power is making a comeback in Japan. But in Hokkaido, indigenous Ainu communities are being sidelined as their ancestral land is eyed for nuclear waste storage. The Ainu musician Oki Kano ...

In a new entry on Sony’s official PlayStation blog, Sucker Punch Productions' co-creative director Nate Fox shared more insight into the research trips the Ghost of Yotei team took to Japan. Following ...

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