When the time came, we set one free back into nature and killed the other to eat." Having treated the bear ... is 70 but ...

The Ainu people are the indigenous people of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan's northernmost main island. They developed their own distinct language, history and culture, which were quite different from ...

The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of northeastern Japan, occupied the site. Many archeologists consider the Ainu to be the last living descendants of the Jomon ...

The Ainu believe that the world rests on the back of a giant trout, that otters caused human beings to be flawed, and that seeing an owl fly across the face of the moon at night is cause for great ...

Someone told her people would say things to their Ainu acquaintances like, "What do you people eat?" and "Why don't you go back to your own country?" Shimada says such barbs have driven many Ainu ...