An Ainu woman is no longer remaining silent but speaking out against a lawmaker’s continued discriminatory remarks toward the ...

Japan’s government introduced a bill Friday to recognise the country’s ethnic Ainu minority as an “indigenous” people for the first time, after decades of discrimination against the group. The Ainu ...

A group of indigenous people are suing the Japanese government for the return of ancestral remains taken during the brutal ...

FROM A DISTANCE, the National Ainu Museum glistens. When the sleek concrete-and-glass structure opened in 2020, it became the first national museum dedicated to the oft-forgotten indigenous people of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Shogun was bathing in the glory of its record 18 wins at the Emmy Awards ceremony at Los Angeles' Peacock Theater in September, ...

Photographs documenting Ainu people and villages and Japanese boats, paintings, artifacts, structures, burial mound, tombs, and scenery. They also include some images of people and a village in Korea.

Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing has dropped a trailer and a poster for the upcoming coming-of-age drama Ainu Mosir (“the quiet earth where humans dwell”) directed by Takeshi Fukunaga. The film is set ...

The Ainu people -- many of whom live in northern Hokkaido -- have long suffered the effects of a policy of forced assimilation, and while discrimination has receded gradually, income and education ...

After decades of discrimination, the government of Japan has introduced a bill to recognise the country’s ethnic Ainu minority as an “indigenous” people for the first time – a move welcomed by ...