OKI is a multi-talented musician from Japan, who produces unique Ainu music with a modern twist. The Ainu are an indigenous ethnic group of people who live in Hokkaido in Japan and in some parts of ...

While Japan's music industry has long been more progressive than Taiwan's in regard embracing different forms and styles of music, the music of Japan's indigenous people has largely been ignored.

With a Japanese mother and Ainu father, the appearance of Oki on “The Rough Guide to the Music of Japan” with his Oki Dub Ainu Band presents a rare glimpse of the multiracial underbelly that Japan ...

Oki Kano is a musician and founder of Oki Dub Ainu, a band that mixes indigenous Ainu music with reggae and other genres. Hong Kong (CNN) Growing up in Japan, musician Oki Kano never knew he was part ...

The Ainu maestro curates a collection that gives his people’s endangered ancient sound a modern lease of life – with dub, harmony and dazzling percussion and harmony Oki, the performing name of Oki ...

The Penn Museum, in collaboration with the Penn Libraries, recently launched various Ainu-themed programming, including a documentary screening and an ongoing exhibit on Ainu representation in media.

TOKYO (Reuters) - When Tsubasa Okitsu was growing up in northern Japan, he was ashamed of his heritage as an Ainu, an indigenous ethnic group that has long suffered discrimination in a country where ...

There's no telling what inspired Ainu musician Oki to collaborate with Balinese shadow theatre pioneer Larry Reed, but the resulting show certainly promises to be interesting. 'Ainu Shadow Project' ...