In a new entry on Sony’s official PlayStation blog, Sucker Punch Productions' co-creative director Nate Fox shared more ...

Growing up in Japan, musician Oki Kano never knew he was part of a “vanishing people.” His Japanese mother was divorced and never told Kano that his birth father was an indigenous Ainu man ...

The University of Tokyo and other institutions have returned the remains of overseas indigenous people that had been held for ...

Japan's Ainu people have their own history, languages and culture. But, as the victims of colonialism, assimilation and discrimination, much of that identity has been lost. This is the story of ...

For centuries, the Ainu traded with Japanese from the mainland, known to them as Wajin. But in 1869, Japan's imperial government forced the Ainu to abandon traditional hunting practices, speak ...

This year, the Japanese government plans to spend about $40 million to support Ainu cultural activities, tourism and industry, under the 2019 law that recognized the Ainu as an Indigenous people.

SHIRAOI, Hokkaido—The skulls of three Ainu individuals were returned from Britain to Hokkaido, the third repatriation of the indigenous people’s remains from overseas.

Japan's indigenous Ainu people are associated with Hokkaido, but many live in the Tokyo region. One woman is working to bring members of this urban Ainu community together and raise awareness of ...

In 2019, a law to promote policies related to the Ainu people was enacted, legally recognizing them as indigenous people in Japan. But the law has been criticized for falling short and the Ainu ...

On 8 May, the remains of four Ainu Indigenous people – that were kept in the National Museum of Australia in Canberra and the Museums Victoria in Melbourne – were returned to Japan.