SAPPORO--A lawsuit filed by a group of indigenous Ainu over fishing rights is effectively a test case aimed at confirming rights to land and natural resources that the ethnic minority had ...

The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of northeastern Japan, occupied the site. Many archeologists consider the Ainu to be the last living descendants of the Jomon ...

The Ainu believe that the world rests on the back of a giant trout, that otters caused human beings to be flawed, and that seeing an owl fly across the face of the moon at night is cause for great ...

"Ainu Shinyoshu," or "Collection of Ainu Songs ... The words have now been put into 30 languages, including English, French, Swahili and Basque. Gustavo Beade Gustavo Beade, who teaches Japanese ...

Swahili and Basque, at the Chiri Yukie Memorial Museum in her hometown of Noboribetsu, Hokkaido. It can be read likewise in Ainu through Romanized characters. Toru Matsumoto, 69, chairman of a ...

A new national museum is putting the spotlight on Japan’s Ainu indigenous people. Upopoy, a sprawling complex also known as the Symbolic Space for Ethnic Harmony, opened in the northernmost ...