Quarantine officials were using sniffer dogs to stop travelers bringing in meat products to Japan as part of stepped up measures to prevent an outbreak of African swine fever that is sweeping Asia.

A viral image being shared on Facebook claims to reveal Japan's earliest settlers. "At about 35,000 b.c. a group of African/Nubian Chinese, later known as the Jomon, took this route and entered ...

The story of Ainu, Japan’s indigenous language, is not just a tale of words and grammar—it’s a testament to resilience, identity, and the sheer power of cultural memory.

Japan’s Native Ainu Fight to Restore a Last Vestige of Their Identity. A group representing the Indigenous people has sued to regain the right, lost over a century ago, ...

The Japanese government introduced a bill Friday to recognize the country's ethnic Ainu minority as an "indigenous" people for the first time, after decades of discrimination against the group. The ...

Japan's indigenous people, the Ainu, were the earliest settlers of Hokkaido, Japan's northern island. But most travelers will not have heard of them. Our coverage during coronavirus While ...

Quarantine authorities are increasingly on alert for African swine fever (ASF), a pig disease with a nearly 100 percent fatality rate that has spread to almost all areas surrounding Japan.

The remains, which had been kept at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, have been returned to the Ainu Association of Hokkaido and will arrive back in Japan on Saturday.

She was born in Nagasaki, in southern Japan, to a Japanese mother and an African-American father. As a child growing up in Japan, she says she was bullied because of her dark skin.

Monbetsu in the forest in Biratori, in northern Japan's Hokkaido. For centuries, the Ainu traded with Japanese from the mainland, known to them as Wajin. But in 1869, ...

At the seventh Ticad (Tokyo International Conference on African Development), held in Yokohama in 2019, late prime minister Shinzo Abe said Japan would boost private-sector investment in Africa by ...

Japan's Ainu people have their own history, languages and culture. But, as the victims of colonialism, assimilation and discrimination, much of that identity has been lost. This is the story of ...