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 people, who lived throughout Japan from as ...

Kanezaki's initial interest was the Jomon period, which lasted 10,000 years in Japan from about 13,000 years ago, but he began to study the Ainu people after learning that their sentiments and ...

It said the Jomon people, who are the ancestors of Japanese, lived in Hokkaido for more than 10,000 years from around 16,000 years ago before the Ainu people. Protesters demanded the organizers ...

Three skulls from Japan that were given to Edinburgh University in 1913 have been returned to the indigenous community where ...

The Ainu were marginalised and subjected to studies in the late 19th and early 20th century, with remains and cultural ...

The Japanese government said Friday that the remains of three Ainu Indigenous people that were kept at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland will be returned to Japan. The three skulls are set ...

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 ...

The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan Hokkaido the northern island of Japan was previously called Ainumosir or land of the Ainu Ainu traditions are facing a critical situation the latest ...

Historically, it’s the language of the Ainu people, an Indigenous community on the island of Hokkaido in Japan. In 1972, only 14 people could speak Ainu well enough to teach it. Today ...

teaching the long dormant language to a new wave of people curious about the Ainu. She tells SBS Japanese that Ainu culture beginning to flourish once again, thanks in part to people such as ...

Clearly, Ainu culture was far removed from the Jomon. How had this earlier characterization ... gaining recognition as an indigenous people of Japan. Hopefully the results of that phone call ...