SAPPORO -- The chairman of a group representing Japan's indigenous Ainu people on Sept. 15 called for guarantees of indigenous rights, after he was hit with a criminal complaint for salmon fishing in ...

A court in Japan dismissed a bid by Ainu Indigenous people to reclaim rights over river fishing for salmon, an official said Thursday. It was the first court decision on Indigenous rights related to ...

In 1669, the Ainu leader Shakushain, who rose up and united the Ainu in rebellion against Japanese invaders, was called on to observe a truce, and invited to a banquet in his honor. The Matsumae clan, ...

I am an Ainu. However, sometimes when I tell people I was born not in Hokkaidō, but in Tokyo, and was raised in Saitama Prefecture, it brings the conversation to a halt, as if they are thinking, “Oh, ...

New legislation recognizing the Ainu as indigenous to Japan is not as groundbreaking as backers of the law imply. Notably absent is an apology for how Ainu have been treated historically and any ...

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 ...

Spring usually comes in early May in Hokkaido, and it is high season to pick sansai, or edible wild mountain plants. Among them, the Alpine leek — kitopiro in Japanese and pukusa in the native Ainu ...