The skull to be returned on July 31 was stolen from an Ainu cemetery in Sapporo by a German tourist in 1879, a crime he admitted to in an article in a 19th century journal of ethnology, stating ...

BERLIN -- The skull of an Ainu person that was stolen from a Hokkaido grave in 1879 and then taken to Germany was officially returned to the Japanese government during a ceremony here on July 31.

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 ...

BERLIN – 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 ...

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 ...