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

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

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 ...

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 ...

This national park known as the "Playground of the Gods" in Japan is a outdoor-loving travelers paradise with gorgeous ...

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 ...

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 ...

She posted on her blog photos of Tahara and other Ainu people, saying they are “a disgrace to Japan” and “the enemy is right in front of us! A large group of leftists.” Tahara read Sugita ...

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 ...

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 ...

Such a potentially large population of Satsumon people was hard to ... of agriculture to the Ainu's Satsumon ancestors. The general archeological record in Japan is consistent with this view.