The Ainu people regard numerous things in nature as ... seeking gold that's said to be hidden in Hokkaido. The Ainu girl plays a key role in finding it. Characters speak the Ainu language quite ...

Teru does well at school and takes an entrance exam for a girls’ high school ... In the work’s preface, Chiri describes the Ainu people as the “losers” who are left behind regarding ...

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 ...

The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of northeastern Japan, occupied the site. Many archeologists consider the Ainu to be the last living descendants of the Jomon ...

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 ...

The area has long been home to a concentrated population of Indigenous people, the Ainu.Credit... Supported by By Vivian Morelli Photographs by Andrew Faulk Reporting from Kushiro, Japan At the ...

More than anything, brilliant Teru longs to attend school with other girls. But in early 20th-century Japan, Teru is excluded because she is Ainu. Instead of writing, the Ainu—indigenous people ...

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 ...