The long-standing theory that the earliest Native Americans migrated to the Western Hemisphere from Japan is facing significant scientific scrutiny. A new study challenges the idea that these early ...

While travelling is on hold due to the coronavirus outbreak, BBC Travel will continue to inform and inspire our readers who ...

SAPPORO--Protesters denounced as hate speech an event here that claims the Ainu people are not indigenous to Japan, which flies in the face of the law of the land. About 30 people gathered outside ...

Credit: Yuriko Yamanouchi "When you hear 'indigenous people in Australia', I think many Japanese will come up with an exotic image of them in Australian nature, like on a postcard. But I felt ...

Historically, it’s the language of the Ainu people, an Indigenous community on the island of Hokkaido in Japan. In 1972, only 14 people could speak Ainu well enough to teach it. Today ...

Richards noted that Japan has a large food culture, and its residents love Jamaican cuisine. She added that the restaurant ...

Shoji Hiroyuki, 67, spends more than 30 hours a week helping people learn Japanese through a chat service called "Sail." The platform, developed by a Japanese company, pairs native volunteers ...

The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan Hokkaido the northern island of Japan was previously called Ainumosir or land of the Ainu Ainu traditions are facing a critical situation the latest ...