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 ...

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 Japan, ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

Hate speech against Koreans residing in Japan and the Ainu was intensifying in Japan. “I was gripped by fear and a sense of powerlessness,” Tahara said.

SHIRAOI, Hokkaido—The skulls of three Ainu individuals were returned from Britain to Hokkaido, the third repatriation of the indigenous people’s remains from overseas.

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.