The remains of four Ainu indigenous people have recently been returned from Australian museums and are back in Japan for the first time in about a century. Researchers actively excavated and ...

The Ainu, an indigenous people predominantly living in northern Japan, have a distinct language and rich cultural traditions. Although Hokkaido has the largest Ainu population, thousands also live ...

Historically, it’s the language of the Ainu people, an Indigenous community on the island of Hokkaido in Japan. In 1972, only 14 people could speak Ainu well enough to teach it. Today ...

Japan's government introduced a bill Friday to recognise the country's ethnic Ainu minority as an "indigenous" people for the first time, after decades of discrimination against the group.

The Ainu Measures Promotion Act, which came into force last year, is the first legal recognition of the Ainu as an indigenous people from the northern part of the Japanese archipelago, mainly ...

Shida pointed to the history of the Ainu people, who have long been exploited and discriminated against by Japanese colonizers. “There are some among the Ainu people who react strongly against ...

The site is contemporaneous with the medieval Japanese to the south, who had been forging a nation-state for several centuries. The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of ...

teaching the long dormant language to a new wave of people curious about the Ainu. She tells SBS Japanese that Ainu culture beginning to flourish once again, thanks in part to people such as ...

The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan Hokkaido the northern island of Japan was previously called Ainumosir or land of the Ainu Ainu traditions are facing a critical situation the latest ...

He was there with a tiny crew to shoot a bear ritual of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan's northernmost islands that was ...

All of Japan’s national parks host unique sights that are worth visiting. Akan is home to the Ainu people, an indigenous community that has a deeply-rooted reverence for nature. They have a ...

From that moment on, Bronisław writes down fables, legends and rituals of the local peoples. In the southern part of the island he meets the Ainu people. Because of their appearance, they are ...