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 ...

The Ainu people originally dubbed the mountain "Machineshiri." During the Meiji period between 1868 and 1912, it was instead called Mount Shiribeshi. It wasn't until later that people then derived ...

The Ainu are an indigenous people who have been ... The performance impressed the world. This event opened people’s eyes to the Sami and their situation. Ms. Aili Keskitalo, the president ...

Historically, it’s the language of the Ainu people, an Indigenous community on the island of Hokkaido in Japan. In 1972, only 14 people could speak Ainu well enough to teach it. Today ...

A new national museum is putting the spotlight on Japan’s Ainu indigenous people. Upopoy, a sprawling complex also known as the Symbolic Space for Ethnic Harmony, opened in the northernmost ...

A collaborative team of researchers from institutions like the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), University of the Basque ...

The documentary screening at Tokyo Film Festival takes a deeply human look at the lives of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan's Hokkaido. By Gavin J Blair As Shogun was bathing in the glory of ...

Japan's government introduced a bill Friday to recognise the country's ethnic Ainu minority as an "indigenous" people for the first time, after decades of discrimination against the group.

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