In winter, Japan’s northernmost main island Hokkaido is a place of snow-covered forests and white-crested volcanoes mirrored ...

In a new entry on Sony’s official PlayStation blog, Sucker Punch Productions' co-creative director Nate Fox shared more insight into the research trips the Ghost of Yotei team took to Japan. Following ...

Japan's government introduced a bill Friday to recognise the country's ethnic Ainu minority as an "indigenous" people for the first time, after decades of discrimination against the group. The Ainu ...

An item listed as an Ainu “family register ledger” was sold on Yahoo Auctions, drawing outrage from members of the indigenous ...

As Shogun was bathing in the glory of its record 18 wins at the Emmy Awards ceremony at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater in September, Japanese director Takeshi Fukunaga was caked in mud and sweat in a ...

Grab your General Knowledge Plushie here: <a href=" In this video I look into why Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido, is home to only 5 million people despite its vast size - comparable to ...

The government has said that the remains of five Ainu people will be returned from the Natural History Museum in Britain to Japan. In early fiscal 2026, which begins next April, officials from the ...

The ainu of japan have long been almost invisible in a society that likes to consider itself racially homogenous. Often they hide themselves. Yuki Hasegawa, for instance, grew up thinking she was ...

The remains of five Ainu people will be returned to Japan by London's Natural History Museum, the Japanese government said Friday. The government has been attempting to secure the return of individual ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - When Tsubasa Okitsu was growing up in northern Japan, he was ashamed of his heritage as an Ainu, an indigenous ethnic group that has long suffered discrimination in a country where ...

The documentary screening at Tokyo Film Festival takes a deeply human look at the lives of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan's Hokkaido. By Gavin J Blair As Shogun was bathing in the glory of its ...