SAPPORO--Protesters denounced as hate speech an event here that claims the Ainu people are not indigenous to Japan, which flies in the face of the law of the land.

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 ...

In the Land of the Rising Sun where the far east meets the far north, a tribe of indigenous people overlooked by history are fighting to reclaim the bodies of their ancestors. The Hokkaido region of ...

Photographs documenting Ainu people and villages and Japanese boats, paintings, artifacts, structures, burial mound, tombs, and scenery. They also include some images of people and a village in Korea.

On the morning of the final day of my trip, I woke up in Shiraoi Town.On the way to Upopoy, seeing a stop sign is something ...

The Nemuro Peninsula Chashi Site Group is a nationally designated historic site consisting of 24 chashi sites believed to ...

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TOKYO (Reuters) - When Tsubasa Okitsu was growing up in northern Japan, he was ashamed of his heritage as an Ainu, an indigenous ethnic group that has long suffered discrimination in a country where ...

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The documentary screening at Tokyo Film Festival takes a deeply human look at the lives of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan's Hokkaido. By Gavin J Blair As Shogun was bathing in the glory of its ...