In Japan, the Indigenous community known as the Ainu has been struggling to assert a 21st century identity after decades of erasure. About 20 years ago, the government officially recognized them as ...

Kings and Generals continues its animated historical documentary series on Japan, exploring the history behind Sony’s newly announced game, Ghost of Yotei. Set in early 17th-century Hokkaido, the game ...

Creation legends and folk tales swirl like snow and leaves across the protected landscapes of Japan. This selection of four national parks represent different worlds of natural beauty, biological ...

While on the island, he creates a transcript of the language of its indigenous inhabitants, the Ainu people. Piłsudski is much better known there, as in Poland he is greatly overshadowed by his ...

These seinen manga wrapped up their stories with optimistic high notes, fittingly dark moments, or complex and bittersweet ...

Netflix has just dropped its latest offering, "Golden Kamuy -The Hunt of Prisoners in Hokkaido-", a gripping continuation of the Golden Kamuy saga that's set ...

Evidence showed he was a coastal resident eating a heavy marine diet, Owsley said, and is more closely related to the Ainu of northern Japan. Arguments from the tribes that the Columbia River held ...

Japan’s Supreme Court rendered judgment in January on a suit that was initially brought by 27 Korean plaintiffs in 2013. The ...

Abu Dhabi, Feb. 10 (BNA): Dr. Majid bin Ali Al Nuaimi, Minister of Public Affairs at the Royal Court, and Abdullah Majid Al Ali, Director General of the National Archives and Library of the United ...

NIIMI, Okayama Prefecture--Mio Hashimoto, 15 years old when the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck, was traumatized when she realized nearly how many lives were lost in her neighborhood in the disaster.

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Japan’s response to a United Nations report concerning discrimination against women is at odds with one of its basic foreign policy principles. The government’s decision to refuse financing ...