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Torii gates at the entrance to Akan-Mashu National Park on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of Japan. The area has long been home to a concentrated population of Indigenous people ...

The long journey for equality for Japan’s LGBT community is not over. This new law, while advancing the rights of LGBT people, falls well short of ensuring them equal protection from discrimination.

"Thylacines were seen as pests in their own environment, and also described in similar ways to Aboriginal people as being 'primitive', 'stupid' and evolutionarily ill-adapted," Ashby said.

Jiro Tajima, 88, is rinsed off as he prepares to immerse himself at a Tokyo bathhouse reserved most days until early afternoon for older people to exercise, eat lunch, and enjoy a soak.