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In Japan, the Indigenous community known as the Ainu has been struggling to assert a 21st century identity after decades of erasure. About 20 years ago, the government officially recognized them as ...

Historically, it’s the language of the Ainu people, an Indigenous community on the island of Hokkaido in Japan. In 1972, only 14 people could speak Ainu well enough to teach it. Today ...

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. About 30 people gathered outside ...

After more than a century of forced assimilation, the Ainu are set to be recognized as Indigenous for the first time.

The indigenous people of Northern Japan are using a Māori technique to revitalise their language, which is at risk of dying out. The Ainu language is listed as 'critically endangered', but ...

Credit: Yuriko Yamanouchi "When you hear 'indigenous people in Australia', I think many Japanese will come up with an exotic image of them in Australian nature, like on a postcard. But I felt ...

The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan Hokkaido the northern island of Japan was previously called Ainumosir or land of the Ainu Ainu traditions are facing a critical situation the latest ...