沖波 (Okinami)

Every year, people from all over Japan gather in Okinami, a quiet seaside settlement with an aging and declining population, to help perform a ritual for the local deity by carrying lantern floats into the sea.
Ainu. Pathways to Memory

Film about Ainu culture and history and the contradictions regarding the preservation of its culture and identity today
Prof. Dr. Andreas Niehaus (President)

Prof. Dr. Andreas NIEHAUS President I am very honored and grateful having been elected for the position of President of the EAJS. As local organizer, I was instrumental in organizing the 2021 online and 2023 hybrid international EAJS conferences in Ghent, and as member of the extended Council, I have contributed to the general work […]