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 ...

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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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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.

Tuesday afternoon, Professor Michael Thornton, an assistant teaching history professor at Northeastern University, discussed ...

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.

Based on the hugely popular Satoru Noda manga, Netflix’s latest live action adaptation is a sequel to the 2024 Golden Kamuy film. The nine-episode series first aired in October 2024 in its native ...