The Ainu are believed to go back 15,000 years - further back than the Sumerians or Egyptians. For this reason, some people say the Ainu are not just a people, but a whole "Ainu race". Ainu leader ...

Dr Richard Siddle, author of Race, Resistance and the Ainu of Japan, says the resolution's significance is primarily symbolic. "This admission puts no obligations on the government," he says. "Very ...

Japan‘s deputy prime minister has been accused of ignoring an indigenous ethnic group after describing the country as the only one in the world with a single race. “No other country but this ...

Japan is a multiethnic society largely in denial about its diversity. Here we can examine the contradictions and consequences of this discourse. This second edition published a dozen years after ...

The Ainu have crafted lives that speak against the rhetoric of Ainu as a ‘vanishing race’. The beautiful thing that’s happening now is that people are overcoming these legacies of racism. “All the ...

Ahead of Sucker Punch Productions' RPG sequel Ghost of Yōtei's launch, the team has shared insights on their research trips ...

A range of forces has pushed the Ainu language to the brink of extinction, galvanizing efforts by the government, community groups and citizens to preserve and revitalize it in a race against time.