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The Air Self-Defense Force is facing pressure to jettison its new aircraft logo amid criticisms from Ainu people indigenous to Hokkaido that it appropriates their culture. One Ainu group is ...

The Ainu Measures Promotion Act, which came into force last year, is the first legal recognition of the Ainu as an indigenous people from the northern part of the Japanese archipelago, mainly ...

The Ainu, an indigenous people predominantly living in northern Japan, have a distinct language and rich cultural traditions. Although Hokkaido has the largest Ainu population, thousands also live ...

Ryoko Tahara, center, an Ainu activist, expresses her feelings at the hearing regarding human rights violation of discriminatory comments against Ainu people made by lawmaker Mio Sugita in the ...

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 ...

In 2019, Japan enforced a law that, for the first time, recognized the Ainu as an indigenous people in northern Japan and called for the protection and promotion of their culture.

She is passionately proud of her Ainu ancestry and culture, teaching the long dormant language to a new wave of people curious about the Ainu. She tells SBS Japanese that Ainu culture beginning to ...

The screening featured the 2018 documentary, “Ainu: Indigenous People of Japan,” which follows four Ainu elders in Biratori, Hokkaido, and the ways they contribute to the preservation of Ainu culture.

All of Japan’s national parks host unique sights that are worth visiting. Akan is home to the Ainu people, an indigenous community that has a deeply-rooted reverence for nature. They have a ...