The Person Known as 'One of the Three Great Ainu Poets,' Yaeko Bachelor—A Life Dedicated to Expressing Thoughts for Her ...

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.

In the Land of the Rising Sun where the far east meets the far north, a tribe of indigenous people overlooked by history are fighting to reclaim the bodies of their ancestors. The Hokkaido region of ...

PM at "GASBON METABOLISM," an art complex in Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture. People are trickling into the venue while it ...

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. The Ainu ...

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 its ...

A group representing the Indigenous people has sued to regain the right, lost over a century ago, to freely fish for salmon in a Hokkaido river. By Motoko Rich and Hikari Hida Reporting from Urahoro ...

Indigenous student Mizuki Orita (2nd L) practices a traditional dance with members of the Ainu culture club Sapporo University – Copyright AFP Yuichi YAMAZAKI When ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido is well known for its world-class powder snow, delicious food and unspoiled nature. Few people outside the country, however, are ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - When Tsubasa Okitsu was growing up in northern Japan, he was ashamed of his heritage as an Ainu, an indigenous ethnic group that has long suffered discrimination in a country where ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Shogun was bathing in the glory of its record 18 wins at the Emmy Awards ceremony at Los Angeles' Peacock Theater in September, ...

Indigenous student Mizuki Orita (2nd L) practices a traditional dance with members of the Ainu culture club Sapporo University AFP When Yuko Honda, a professor at Japan's Sapporo University, tried to ...