The Japanese Dog Preservation Society, Nihon-ken Hozonkai, was created to maintain and preserve six specific native Japanese dog breeds. This organization is similar to the American Kennel Club (AKC) ...

The Japanese had a long-standing feud with the Ainu over territory. The natives predictably lost one battle after another, because they had never had either statehood or an army, and were pushed ...

Takeshi Fukunaga's documentary Ainu Puri screened at the Tokyo Film Festival, a film that takes a look at the lives of the indigenous Ainu people.

Japanese authorities feared that these Ainu, some of them converts to Orthodox Christianity, would serve as spies for the Russians established in the Kurils. At the end of the Russian-Japanese war, as ...

Ainu people dance at the Indigenous Peoples Summit in Sapporo, northern Japan, Friday, July 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) SAPPORO, Japan - Separated by a short span of freezing sea, a ...