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Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2017
Japan in talks on return of Ainu remains held in Australia
The government said Monday it will start negotiations with Australia toward returning the remains of indigenous Ainu people being held at Australian museums.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
May 20, 2017
Hokkaido's ancient place in the modern world
"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.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2017
Hokkaido University agrees to return remains of Ainu to descendants
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.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Mar 12, 2017
Seeing Ainu as they want to be seen
Portrait project on show in Tokyo is the result of months spent living as part of Hokkaido village community.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Dec 31, 2016
Japan Times 1992: 'George Bush collapses during official dinner'
U.S. President George Bush collapsed in the middle of an official banquet Wednesday night and returned early to the Government Guesthouse in Tokyo's Akasaka district.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Oct 27, 2016
Photographer helping to hand down Ainu culture with new photo book
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 10, 2016
New law eyed to improve living, education standards for indigenous Ainu
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Mar 1, 2016
Archaeologist awarded for Ainu trade theory
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jan 7, 2016
Shiraoi Ainu Museum getting upgrade to lure foreign tourists
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.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Nov 9, 2015
Fighters to take down banner offensive to Ainu
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.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Oct 31, 2015
Autobiography of aging Ainu reveals unspoken struggles
A descendant of an Ainu resident of the southern part of Sakhalin Island has written about the hardships she faced because of her origin when her family fled to Japan in the aftermath of World War II.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Sep 12, 2015
'Our Land Was A Forest' depicts life in Hokkaido for indigenous Ainu
No bookshelf filled with Japanese literature is complete without Ainu folklore. Yes, Ainu yukar (folk tales) have been published in English, but to learn more about their stories and struggles, pick up the 1994 memoir "Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir" by Kayano Shigeru, a noted Ainu folklore expert, activist and politician.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 19, 2015
8,500-year-old 'Kennewick Man' skeleton was likely Native American, not Ainu, DNA findings indicate
The much-anticipated results of a study of DNA taken from the hand bone of the so-called Kennewick Man, a 8,500-year-old skeleton discovered in Washington state in 1996, suggest the man was most closely related to Native American populations, a team of international researchers said on Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2015
Photographer documents Ainu life
Taka Maesawa, a photographer from Nakashibetsu, Hokkaido, has published a photo book documenting the Ainu ethnic minority for more than 30 years since 1983.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Dec 12, 2014
Rare Ainu scholar wants indigenous group's women to aim high
Nobuko Tsuda, an ethnic Ainu woman who earned her doctoral degree this autumn at age 68, said she hopes her feat will encourage younger generations of Hokkaido's indigenous people to aim for the top.
EDITORIALS
Nov 17, 2014
A shameful statement on Ainu
A statement made by a member of the Hokkaido prefectural assembly is an insult to the Ainu people.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2014
Ainu, Okinawans join first U.N. indigenous peoples' conference
Delegates for indigenous peoples from around the world, including Ainu and Okinawans, gather at the United Nations to discuss measures to ensure their political representation and freedom from discrimination.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2014
First nationwide survey on Ainu discrimination to be carried out
The government plans to conduct its first full-fledged survey to grasp the reality of discrimination of the indigenous Ainu people in Japan, officials said Thursday.
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2014
Sapporo assemblyman says indigenous Ainu 'no longer exist' as group
A Sapporo assemblyman draws fire for stating online that the indigenous Ainu 'no longer exist' and suggests that any who do are motivated by government handouts.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jul 8, 2014
Ainu restaurant offers a delicious cultural excursion
Spring usually comes in early May in Hokkaido, and it is high season to pick sansai, or edible wild mountain plants. Among them, the Alpine leek — kitopiro in Japanese and pukusa in the native Ainu language — is the most attractive.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Saudi Arabia steps up Gaza-related arrests as Israel ties edge closer
The arrests for Gaza-related posts indicate Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s regime will take a hard line against citizens not toeing the line when it comes to normalizing ties with Israel.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
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