He is exiled to Sakhalin as punishment for his involvement in a plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander III of Russia. While on the island, he creates a transcript of the language of its indigenous ...

They developed their own distinct language, history and culture, which were quite different from Japanese, and also lived in northern Honshu, Sakhalin and the Kuril islands. The Ainu people hunted ...

According to Maruyama, Ainu factions such as the Sakhalin Ainu Association, Monbetsu Ainu Association, and Citizens Alliance for the Examination of Ainu Policy were left in the dark, which is ...

The Ainu are the Indigenous people of Hokkaido and Sakhalin Island (now Russia). Subject to 150 years of Japanese rule, the colonial history of the Ainu is very similar to that of the Indigenous ...

the northernmost island of Japan, I realized the full import of Yoshi's news - namely, that the history of Hokkaido's indigenous people, the Ainu, was about to be rewritten. Since the mid-1970s I ...

SAPPORO—Japanese citizens who remained in Sakhalin, or Karafuto ... Many Japanese immediately fled the island under the emergency evacuation plan after the Soviet Union's invasion.

Yet the relationship between the Jomon and the Ainu is anything but straightforward ... the northernmost province of Honshu, Japan's main island that lies just to the south of Hokkaido.

as well as the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin. Scholars said it is unclear how big the Ainu population is. While the Ainu Association conducts a survey every seven years among those in Hokkaido ...

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 ...

and adjacent islands. Formally named the National Ainu Museum and Park, Upopoy opened in July in Shiraoi, Hokkaido. The facility is designed to serve as the “national center” for restoring and ...

An exodus of money, technology, and buyers from Russian energy projects may offer an opportunity for China to embed itself deeper in the Arctic. Thousands of conscripted Korean men vanished on ...

Governor of Russia’s Sakhalin Region Valery Limarenko also said that a bridge between Sakhalin Island and Japan’s Hokkaido is planned to be constructed in the future YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, November 6.