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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

SAPPORO--The president of Nippon Television Network Corp. apologized for a program in which a comedian used a derogatory word referring to Japan's ... deeply hurt the Ainu people,” Kosugi ...

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 ...

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.

All of Japan’s national parks host unique sights that are worth visiting. Akan is home to the Ainu people, an indigenous community that has a deeply-rooted reverence for nature. They have a ...

In the southern part of the island he meets the Ainu people. Because of their appearance, they are scathingly called the ‘shaggy people’ by the Japanese and the Russians. Bronisław, however, treats ...

teaching the long dormant language to a new wave of people curious about the Ainu. She tells SBS Japanese that Ainu culture beginning to flourish once again, thanks in part to people such as ...

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 ...