It marks the third time that Ainu remains that were taken abroad for research have been returned to Japan, following similar ...

Tokyo, April 25 (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government said Friday that the remains of three Ainu indigenous people kept at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland will be returned to Japan.

On the windswept coasts of Hokkaido, a language once thought to be vanishing is echoing back into life. The story of Ainu, ...

The number of foreign residents in Sapporo has doubled over the past decade, despite an overall population decline in the ...

The individuals were from the Philippines, the Mbuti tribe from central Africa and the Ainu people from Japan. At least 17 people died of pneumonia, malnutrition and suicide. According to some ...

Japan's falling population is owed, in part, to a spike in the success of women in the workforce. A greater percentage of ...

In the rest of the world — where Korean restaurants, music and film have transformed popular culture — the discovery of ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

Conservative lawmakers decry a change of the surname rule in the Civil Code as an attack on traditional values and tie it to ...

Brazil hosts the largest Japanese community outside Japan. In the early 20th century, Brazil needed labour. Japan faced population pressures. The Kasato Maru arrived in 1908 with immigrants.