Japan court rejects appeal by indigenous Ainu over right to catch salmon

A Japanese high court on Thursday upheld a lower court decision by rejecting an appeal by a group of Ainu in Hokkaido seeking ...
NewsBytes

Ainu culture: 5 amazing traditions to know

Traditional Ainu clothing. Ainu clothing is made from natural materials like woven fibers from trees. The garments are often ...
Digital Journal

Japan to recognise indigenous Ainu people for first time

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 ...

Documentary sheds light on Ainu

The traditional lifestyle of Japan's indigenous Ainu people is rapidly disappearing. One man has been documenting the lives ...
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Romyn Hitchcock photographs of Ainu people, Japan, and Korea

Photographs documenting Ainu people and villages and Japanese boats, paintings, artifacts, structures, burial mound, tombs, and scenery. They also include some images of people and a village in Korea.
The New York Times

Artisans Try to Hold Onto the Ainu Culture of Japan

Jewelry makers and an embroiderer are among the craftspeople whose creations reflect the Indigenous people’s heritage. Torii gates at the entrance to Akan-Mashu National Park on Hokkaido, the ...
Reuters

Aiming at Olympic boom, Japan builds 'Ethnic Harmony' tribute to indigenous Ainu

TOKYO (Reuters) - On a wooded lake shore in northern Japan, the government is building a modernist shrine that has divided the indigenous Ainu community whose vanishing culture it was designed to ...
Reuters

Japan's Ainu fuse tradition, hip-hop for awareness

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 ...
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Tokyo: ‘Ainu Puri’ Director Takeshi Fukunaga On Raising Awareness of the Ainu People

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Shogun was bathing in the glory of its record 18 wins at the Emmy Awards ceremony at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater in September, ...
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Experience Indigenous Ainu and Jomon Culture in Hokkaido – Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO)

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido is well known for its world-class powder snow, delicious food and unspoiled nature. Few people outside the country, however, are ...
Taipei Times

Taiwan’s National Indigenous Peoples’ Museum office signs MOU with Ainu Foundation in Hokkaido

The Preparatory Office of the National Museum of Indigenous Peoples on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to ...
CNN

Meeting the First Inhabitants

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 ...