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 ...

While on the island, he creates a transcript of the language of its indigenous inhabitants, the Ainu people. Piłsudski is much better known there, as in Poland he is greatly overshadowed by his ...

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 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 ...

An English missionary who lived among the Ainu for several decades around the turn of this century, Batchelor carefully recorded the people's folklore even as he proselytized the Christian faith.

The area has long been home to a concentrated population of Indigenous people, the Ainu.Credit... Supported by By Vivian Morelli Photographs by Andrew Faulk Reporting from Kushiro, Japan At the ...

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 ...

In 2019, Japan enforced a law that, for the first time, recognized the Ainu as an indigenous people in northern Japan and called for the protection and promotion of their culture.

Upopoy, an Ainu word meaning “singing together in a large group,” is the nickname of a new facility themed on the culture and history of the Ainu, an indigenous people of northern parts of ...

She is passionately proud of her Ainu ancestry and culture, teaching the long dormant language to a new wave of people curious about the Ainu. She tells SBS Japanese that Ainu culture beginning to ...

On World Kidney Day, Asian Institute of Nephrology and Urology launched its kidney mobile camp for the villages and district across Telangana reaching out to around 10,000 people.