An Ainu woman is no longer remaining silent but speaking out against a lawmaker’s continued discriminatory remarks toward the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the forests of northern Japan, Atsushi Monbetsu says a prayer to the gods Then he shoulders his gun and goes off in search of ...

An item listed as an Ainu “family register ledger” was sold on Yahoo Auctions, drawing outrage from members of the indigenous ...

Ainu people wearing traditional clothes at the Ainu Museum, City of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, Japan. Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 In the early 20th century, Japanese anthropologists flocked to the northern island ...

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

Growing up in Japan, musician Oki Kano never knew he was part of a “vanishing people.” His Japanese mother was divorced and never told Kano that his birth father was an indigenous Ainu man. Kano was ...

Hundreds of miles away from bustling Tokyo, an ancient ceremony is being held for Ainu ancestors. As Japan gears up for the 2020 Olympics, it's trying to shine a light on this indigenous - and ...

FROM A DISTANCE, the National Ainu Museum glistens. When the sleek concrete-and-glass structure opened in 2020, it became the first national museum dedicated to the oft-forgotten indigenous people of ...

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 ...

After more than a century of forced assimilation, the Ainu are set to be recognized as Indigenous for the first time. Japan’s rapid industrialization to become an economic superpower is remembered ...

Growing up in Japan, musician Oki Kano never knew he was part of a “vanishing people.” His Japanese mother was divorced and never told Kano that his birth father was an indigenous Ainu man. Kano was ...

A bill, which was passed on Friday, for the first time has officially recognized the Ainu of Hokkaido as an “indigenous” people of Japan. The bill alsoincludes measures to make Japan a more inclusive ...