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

OTOINEPPU, Hokkaido--“Fukuro” (Owl), a 6-meter-high totem pole created by the renowned late contemporary Ainu sculptor Bikky ... began visiting Kamakura, the ancient capital in Kanagawa ...

“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.

A Pokémon is more than its first impression, as fans quickly learn when they dig in deep to a Fire-type Pokémon's origins.

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 ...

The Ainu, an Indigenous group in Japan, come from the northern part of the country and were subjected to violent policies of assimilation, displacement and forced labour in the 20th century.

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its ...