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Hokkaido Museum, Sapporo, Japan

Hokkaido Museum, aka Mori no Charenga, is a museum introducing the nature, history and culture of Hokkaido.Hokkaido Museum opened in Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan in 2015. Located within Nopporo Shinrin Kōen Prefectural Natural Park. Most of the permanent exhibitions are history-related, including archeology, and folklore-related. Educational activities are being conducted in…

Hokkaido Museum, Sapporo, Japan

Towards Our Time, Hokkaido Museum

Over the past hundred years, which have included major wars, our ways of life, social structure, and relationship with nature have changed greatly. What manner of things have we experienced, and how have these experiences shaped our current way of living? Let us consider the various activities and observations of…

Towards Our Time, Hokkaido Museum

The Secret of Hokkaido’s Unique Identity, Hokkaido Museum

The large picture to the right depicts Hokkaido from the beginning of the Showa period (1926-89), capturing a moment in history when Hokkaido had undergone major changes from the Meiji period (1868-1912), and was beginning to approach its present state. Hokkaido is characterized by beautiful scenery, special local products made…

The Secret of Hokkaido’s Unique Identity, Hokkaido Museum

The Culture and Recent History of the Ainu, Hokkaido Museum

The Ainu are an indigenous people of Japan. “Ainu” means “human being” in the Ainu language. The Ainu have lived not only here in Hokkaido, but also in regions such as Sakhalin (Karafuto) and the Kuril Islands, developing a variety of cultures. When the Meiji government brought Hokkaido into Japan’s…

The Culture and Recent History of the Ainu, Hokkaido Museum

Hokkaido’s Tale of 1.2 Million Years, Hokkaido Museum

It is sometimes said that the history of Hokkaido is brief. Certainly, it has only been 150 years since settlement and development first brought a large population to Hokkaido. However, looking further into the past, we will find that unlike the simple picture painted in many Japanese history textbooks, this…

Hokkaido’s Tale of 1.2 Million Years, Hokkaido Museum

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