After more than a century of forced assimilation, the Ainu are set to be recognized as Indigenous for the first time.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Shoji Hiroyuki, 67, spends more than 30 hours a week helping people learn Japanese through a chat service called "Sail." The platform, developed by a Japanese company, pairs native volunteers ...

Source: Getty Images The Japanese government only this year took steps to officially recognise Ainu people as an indigenous population and grant them special rights to practice their culture ...

SAPPORO--Protesters denounced as hate speech an event here that claims the Ainu people are not indigenous to Japan, which flies in the face of the law of the land. About 30 people gathered outside ...

Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than ...