The documentary screening at Tokyo Film Festival takes a deeply human look at the lives of the indigenous Ainu people of ...

Credit: Yuriko Yamanouchi "When you hear 'indigenous people in Australia', I think many Japanese will come up with an exotic image of them in Australian nature, like on a postcard. But I felt ...

But a lot remained to be done before official U.S. attitudes toward the Japanese “indigenous population” reflected democratic ideals. G.I.s are still not allowed to entertain Japanese friends ...

legally recognizing them as indigenous people in Japan. But the law has been criticized for falling short and the Ainu continue to struggle for autonomy. The United Nations’ Declaration on the ...

A group of indigenous Ainu people from Japan are working with peers from Australia and elsewhere to fight for traditional rights they say have been lost.

Countries at the U.N. COP16 summit on nature on Friday approved a measure to create a permanent body for Indigenous peoples ...

This was how Gam Shimray, secretary general of the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP), set the ... Cambodia, India, Japan, Nepal, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Thailand — spoke about ...

Indigenous people represent a mosaic of cultures ... while her mother is from Kokura in Kyushu, Japan. “Some people assume because of my Japanese and Aboriginal heritage that I’m from up ...

This year's finalists include Kathleen DuVal's "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America," which jurors say rejects the flattened narrative of Indigenous Peoples as simply victims of settler ...