The Ainu, an indigenous people predominantly living in northern Japan, have a distinct language and rich cultural traditions. Although Hokkaido has the largest Ainu population, thousands also live ...

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 ... Ainu as an indigenous people from the northern part of the Japanese archipelago, mainly Hokkaido.

an indigenous people of northern parts of Japan, especially Hokkaido, and adjacent islands. Formally named the National Ainu Museum and Park, Upopoy opened in July in Shiraoi, Hokkaido.

the northernmost island of Japan, I realized the full import of Yoshi's news - namely, that the history of Hokkaido's indigenous people, the Ainu, was about to be rewritten. Since the mid-1970s I ...

The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan Hokkaido the northern island of Japan was previously called Ainumosir or land of the Ainu Ainu traditions are facing a critical situation the latest ...

Japan's government introduced a bill ... after decades of discrimination against the group. The Ainu people -- many of whom live in northern Hokkaido -- have long suffered the effects of a policy ...

SAPPORO--Protesters denounced as hate speech an event here that claims the Ainu people are not indigenous to Japan, which ...

The Ainu are the Indigenous people of Hokkaido and Sakhalin Island (now Russia). Subject to 150 years of Japanese rule, the colonial history of the Ainu is very similar to that of the Indigenous ...

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 ...

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