Ainu Religion
AINU RELIGION. The Ainu are a people whose traditional homeland lay in Hokkaido, southern Sakhalin, and the Kurile islands, although their territory once included southern Kamchatka and ...
Read more
The Ainu Association of Hokkaido has urged the central and local
governments to recognize the Ainu as indigenous people in light of
the United Nations General Assembly's adoption of a declara...
Read more
For Tadashi Kato, it was long-awaited good news that the United
Nations General Assembly adopted a declaration on the rights of
indigenous peoples around the world after more than 20 years of...
Read more
Mina Sakai wanted to improve the status of her people and their
self-esteem in a way that would also entertain the public, not
through a bookish history lecture that might lull them to sleep....
Read more
----------
Court calls Ex-Khmer Rouge Brother No. 2 for genocide questioning
PHNOM PENH - Former Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea, better known
as Brother No. 2, was called in Wednesday for que...
Read more
Prior to the 20th anniversary of the death of Sadamichi
Hirasawa, convicted in the notorious mass murder case known as the
''Teigin Incident'' in 1948, his family and supporters have launched...
Read more
TOKYO, Nov 28 (Reuters) - When Tsubasa Okitsu was growing
up in northern Japan, he was ashamed of his heritage as an
Ainu, an indigenous ethnic group that has long suffered
discrimination in a cou...
Read more
Ainu Religion
Ainu group seeks indigenous status
