Ghost of Yotei's setting outside the rule of greater Japan leaves the game open to more non-Japanese influences, including ...

SAPPORO -- Twenty-nine percent of Japan's indigenous Ainu people have experienced discrimination, a survey last year by the Hokkaido Prefectural Government has found. The government of the country ...

The Ainu people are the indigenous people of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan's northernmost main island. They developed their own distinct language, history and culture, which were quite different from ...

Hokkaido Railway Co. (JR Hokkaido) will start making train announcements in the Ainu language from spring, but only on some limited express services. The system is set to coincide with the ...

Find out the basis for such beliefs, along with what Hokkaido's Ainu have traditionally thought about the crane, the bear, the flying squirrel, and a host of other creatures. The excerpts below ...

17 calls on the central and the Hokkaido prefectural government to restore rights to fishing for salmon in a local river for commercial purposes. At present, Ainu can fish for purely cultural ...

The Ainu are an indigenous people who have been living mainly in the northern island of Hokkaido. The character was selected from hundreds of masterpieces by those from Hokusai Katsushika to Osamu ...

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 ...

Ghost of Yotei teases a ton of details about 1603 Japan, the Ainu, the Tokugawa Shogunate, and more that has us hyped for the ...

In the northern reaches of Japan, a realm of ethereal, old-growth forests and icy coastal waters offer some of the country’s ...

Originally inhabiting the Northern area of Japan, Ainu people once populated the northern Tohoku region, Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and to Kuril Island between the 17th century and 19th century ...

Our first introduction to Hokkaido was through the New Chitose Airport, which serves Sapporo City, our home base during our visit to Japan’s northernmost island. We had taken our flight out of Manila ...