A box containing a skull of Japan's Ainu people is displayed on a table during a ceremony at the Japanese embassy in Berlin, Monday, July 31, 2017. The skull was taken by German Georg Schlesinger in ...
Ainu people wearing traditional clothes at the Ainu Museum, City of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, Japan. Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 In the early 20th century, Japanese anthropologists flocked to the northern island ...
After being exhumed from their graves without permission in the early 20th century, the remains of several Ainu people are expected to return to Japan from two Australian museums. The Asahi Shimbun ...
BERLIN, GERMANY—The Asahi Shimbun reports that an Ainu skull removed from a cemetery by a private academic society in Berlin in the late nineteenth century has been handed over to authorities at the ...
The skulls of three indigenous Japanese people believed to have lived over 100 years ago have been returned to their descendants by a university. In a poignant repatriation ceremony, the University of ...
BERLIN (AP) — A German research group has handed over to representatives of Japan’s Ainu ethnic group a skull that a German took secretly from a grave in Japan in 1879. Alexander Paschos, the chairman ...