Staff writer
WASHINGTON -- An unprecedented, in-depth exhibition on the culture of the Ainu is being held in the U.S. capital.
The exhibit is notable for the input that its subjects, the indigenous northern Japanese minority, had in its preparation themselves, said William Fitzhugh, director of the Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, and because it celebrates the Ainu's present as well as their past.