One can recover the resulting carbonized seeds by sampling soil from ancient hearths ... The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of northeastern Japan, occupied the ...

The Ainu people are the indigenous people of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan's northernmost main island. They developed their own distinct language, history and culture, which were quite different from ...

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

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 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 ...

In the waters off Hokkaido Prefecture, in Japan's far north, a number of mysterious natural phenomena have been observed in recent years. Echoing the secret truth of an ancient Ainu proverb, the ...

Episode 4: Descendants Of Ainu Peter visits Hokkaido to learn about the indigenous Ainu, trying out ancient crafts and venturing deep into nature to discover how their culture was almost lost ...