Ryukichi OGAWA

Ryukichi OGAWA

Yuji SHIMIZU

Yuji SHIMIZU

Masaki Sashima

Masaki Sashima

Yoshihiko TONOHIRA

Yoshihiko TONOHIRA


NEW! Questionnaire to University of Yamanashi & National Museum of Nature and Science.



Return the Ainu remains to Ainu Kotans
The Research of HOKUDAI MaterialsFor research purposes,

1636 persons and 515 boxes of Ainu ancestral remains have been stocked at Universities in Japan. Who should inherit the exhumed remains of the Ainu? Researchers? The bereaved family? If your ancestor's remains were taken away, what would you do?


The Ainu Human Remains collected by the Japanese Universities (GoogleMAP)

The Ainu Human Remains collected by the Japanese Universities


Hokkaido University, ‘The inquiry report for the collections of AINU Remains by Hokkaido University School of Medicine’, 2013 PDF 11.1MB in Japanese