The group contends the Ainu, who mainly inhabit Hokkaido, are not an indigenous people, unlike the Aborigines in Australia and Native Americans in the United States. It said the Jomon people ...

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

that the history of Hokkaido's indigenous people, the Ainu, was about to be rewritten. Since the mid-1970s I had been investigating the relationship between plants and people in prehistoric ...

The plaintiffs are from the group based in Urahoro, eastern Hokkaido, that calls itself the Raporo Ainu Nation. According to court documents, most of the plaintiffs are descendants of Ainu who ...

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 ...

This time we ride through the colorful autumn scenery of Hokkaido Prefecture ... and meet the indigenous Ainu, who have long lived in harmony with nature. We encounter deer and bears, and an ...

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 ...

While travelling is on hold due to the coronavirus outbreak, BBC Travel will continue to inform and inspire our readers who ...

The new documentary is one such labor of love. "I was born and raised in Hokkaido, but never really had a chance to learn ...

Around 1903, Piłsudski marries an Ainu woman, a relative of a chief. Continuing his enquiries, Piłsudski and another exile, Wacław Sieroszewski, go on an expedition to Hokkaido, where the Japanese ...

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 ...