An Ainu ceremony known as Iyomante, in which people shoot arrows at a brown bear ... hunting with poison-laced arrows, and tattoos for adult women. After the Hokkaido Former Aborigines Protection ...

The Ainu, an indigenous people predominantly living in northern ... Some of Shimada's relatives have tattoos around their mouths, which are a mark of adulthood for Ainu women.

A closer look also reveals tattoos around her mouth and on ... to international public opinion and acknowledged the Ainu as an "indigenous people." The Upopoy national facility was established ...

The area has long been home to a concentrated population of Indigenous people, the Ainu.Credit... Supported by By Vivian Morelli Photographs by Andrew Faulk Reporting from Kushiro, Japan At the ...