Through the Miriwoong-Ainu Language and Culture Exchange Project, the Indigenous communities of Miriwoong in Australia and Ainu in Japan are ...

Before Hokkaido was Hokkaido, it was known to mainland Japan as Ezo. Further back still, indigenous Ainu communities referred to the northern expanse as Ainu Mosir, a name they had used for untold ...

This is no ordinary display—it is an ancient ritual ... Beyond Ainu mythology, the crane has become a universal symbol of longevity, fidelity, and renewal in Japanese culture.

“Tabon Man is the oldest confirmed modern human to have been found in the Philippines. His bones, evidence of existence of Homo sapiens between 37,000 and 47,000 years ago, were discovered in Tabon ...

The Ainu are considered to be the direct descendant of the Johmon people who lived in the Japanese archipelago ... any cross-contamination between ancient and modern DNA in the laboratory procedures.

Well, the ancient myths were designed to put the ... in Hokkaido in northern Japan, among the Ainu people, whose principal mountain deity is the bear, when it is killed there is a ceremony of ...

Final analysis of 9,000-year-old ancient DNA published June 18 shows Kennewick Man ... and is more closely related to the Ainu of northern Japan. Arguments from the tribes that the Columbia River held ...

Torii gates at the entrance to Akan-Mashu National Park on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of Japan. The area has long been home to a concentrated population of Indigenous people, the Ainu ...