Today, UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages ... Some people have concerns about how Upopoy portrays the treatment of Ainu people. Emori Susumu, a professor emeritus at Tohoku Gakuin ...

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 which Ainu people were forced to be educated in Japanese and were banned from their traditional way of hunting. UNESCO says the Ainu language is "critically endangered" and that some dialects ...

An English missionary who lived among the Ainu for several decades around the turn of this century, Batchelor carefully recorded the people's folklore even as he proselytized the Christian faith.

Akan is home to the Ainu people, an indigenous community that has ... and the nature around them have also been classified as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Chausu Peak of Mount Nasu in spring ...

This is the reaction I get when I tell people how many times I’ve climbed ... Some believe it’s an Ainu word that means “fire deity.” The other day, I learned a new Japanese word that ...

The area has long been home to a concentrated population of Indigenous people, the Ainu.Credit... Supported by By Vivian Morelli Photographs by Andrew Faulk Reporting from Kushiro, Japan At the ...

Through the Miriwoong-Ainu Language and Culture Exchange Project, the Indigenous communities of Miriwoong in Australia and Ainu in Japan are ...

SAPPORO--Protesters denounced as hate speech an event here that claims the Ainu people are not indigenous to Japan, which flies in the face of the law of the land. About 30 people gathered outside ...