The central government is likely to stipulate for the first time in law that the Ainu are an "indigenous people" of Japan, according to sources. Using the phrase "indigenous people" in a law would be an additional step by the government to clarify its stance ...
An skull stolen from a Hokkaido grave by a German national in 1879 has been returned to Ainu representatives by a German research group. It is the first time that bone remains from the Ainu ethnic minority, who live mostly in Hokkaido, have been repatriated ...
The government said Monday it will start negotiations with Australia toward returning the remains of indigenous Ainu people being held at Australian museums. Australia's ambassador to Japan, Richard Court, is expected to meet with representatives of the Ainu Association of Hokkaido as soon as Thursday ...
"Even the birds do not fly to Ezo," went a popular 19th-century saying about Japan's northernmost island. "Ezo" means "land of barbarians." Settlement tamed it into "Hokkaido" — "north sea road." But it was a rough passage. Pioneers from the mainland — for centuries a ...
Hokkaido University has agreed to return to descendants of the Ainu, an indigenous ethnic group concentrated in Japan's northernmost main island, ancestral remains exhumed from a cemetery for research in the 1930s, the descendants said this week. The agreement, reached in a court-mediated settlement at ...
Portrait project on show in Tokyo is the result of months spent living as part of Hokkaido village community.
An account of the customs and manners of the Ainos, the aborigines of the Hokkaido may be of interest to the reader who is still not familiar with them. The number of the Ainos scattered over Hokkaido has remarkably decreased and is less than ...
Hokkaido photographer Taka Maesawa plans to publish a sequel to her photo book documenting the life of the Ainu indigenous people in the country's northernmost prefecture to help efforts to hand down their culture to future generations. The 69-year-old hopes to achieve her goal of ...
The central government might enact a law aimed at bettering living standards and education for the indigenous Ainu, who once occupied much of Hokkaido, sources say.
Archaeologist Takuro Segawa has been awarded for his new theory that the Ainu, an indigenous ethnic group concentrated in Hokkaido, traded with Honshu and even Northeast Asia more closely than previously believed. In his book "Ainu Gaku Nyumon" ("Introduction to the Study of Ainu People"), ...
The Ainu Museum in Shiraoi, Hokkaido, is trying to lure more foreign tourists. It offers daily live cultural performances and has displays of artifacts relating to the indigenous ethnic group, and is part of an ongoing drive to preserve Ainu culture. "Around 80 percent of ...
The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters say they will take down a banner ad in New Chitose Airport in the face of complaints by an Ainu group.
