Tim Anderson’s new book, Hokkaido, is inspired by Japan’s northernmost prefecture, where Western influences and Indigenous ...

The lawsuit calls for Ainu to catch salmon as a commercial activity. Their right to do so, they argue, lies in a declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples adopted by the U.N. General ...

Watch the presentation "A New Mobile Life for Endangered Languages" here: Ainu is a language isolate, meaning it isn’t related to any other known language. Historically, it’s the language of ...

Archeologists and historians have long described the Ainu, like the Jomon, as hunter-fisher-collectors and, because the two peoples lived in the same region, they had few qualms about assuming the ...

SAPPORO--Protesters denounced as hate speech an event here that claims the Ainu people are not indigenous to Japan, which flies in the face of the law of the land. About 30 people gathered outside ...

The festival was organized by Shimada Akemi, the head of a group that aims to increase awareness of Ainu culture in the Tokyo region and connect community members with their heritage through ...

And I hope that will also bring a return for traditional Ainu culture.

Originally inhabiting the Northern area of Japan, Ainu people once populated the northern Tohoku region, Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and to Kuril Island between the 17th century and 19th century ...

However, 1603 was also a tumultuous time for the region, as Japan's Matsumae Clan claimed dominion over Ezo against the will of the Ainu people. In 1590, daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi granted the ...