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

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 ...

A film inspired by the story of a young Ainu woman who translated into Japanese an epic poem passed down orally among the indigenous people of Hokkaido will soon have a wide domestic release. The ...

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, 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 ...

The Ainu, an Indigenous group in Japan, come from the northern part of the country and were subjected to violent policies of assimilation, displacement and forced labour in the 20th century.

You may even spot the iconic Red-crowned Cranes. Northern Japan and Southeastern Russia are home to the indigenous Ainu people who were there for centuries before being colonized. Japanese culture ...

The Ainu are a group of indigenous people from northern Japan. Japan is preparing to welcome a new era, with Emperor Akihito planning to abdicate at the end of April.

After centuries of forced assimilation, Japan’s indigenous Ainu population, language and culture are emerging once more thanks to anime, the country’s thriving sub-cultures and YouTube.

In 2008, the government belatedly recognized the Ainu as Japan’s indigenous people. (This article was written by Yuta Kayaba and Fumiko Yoshigaki.) ...

and Ainu culture could no longer serve as a living model of Jomon lifeways. We now believe a closer analogue, in fact, is the agricultural ancestors of the Japanese - an admittedly highly ...