The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of northeastern Japan, occupied the site. Many archeologists consider the Ainu to be the last living descendants of the Jomon ...

The Ainu people are the indigenous people of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan's northernmost main island. They developed their own distinct language, history and culture, which were quite different from ...

After the announcement, an Ainu man set off debate on social media when he tweeted that the logo is an “appropriation of Ainu culture.” One scholar said since indigenous imagery is not ...

While on the island, he creates a transcript of the language of its indigenous inhabitants, the Ainu people. Piłsudski is much better known there, as in Poland he is greatly overshadowed by his ...

A new national museum is putting the spotlight on Japan’s Ainu indigenous people. Upopoy, a sprawling complex also known as the Symbolic Space for Ethnic Harmony, opened in the northernmost ...

In recent years, there has been a fresh wave of interest in the Ainu people, due partly to “Golden Kamuy,” a manga series about a man hunting for lumps of gold left by the Ainu people ...

SAPPORO -- Twenty-nine percent of Japan's indigenous Ainu people have experienced discrimination, a survey last year by the Hokkaido Prefectural Government has found. The government of the country ...

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Once Sugimoto bumps into Asirpa (Anna Yamada), a skilled Ainu girl with indispensible knowledge of the land, Golden Kamuy ...

Brotherhood is pretty faithful to the source material, but it also makes changes to the manga's best arc that lessen its ...

The tool, AINU (AI of the NUcleus), scans high-resolution images of cells. The images are obtained with a special microscopy technique called STORM, which creates a picture that captures many ...

Ainu language teacher Kenyu Yamamaru telling students about Ainu greetings in Hokkaido, Japan (L), and a sign in the Jeju-eo language at a bridge on Jeju island, South Korea (R). New: You can now ...