The group contends the Ainu, who mainly inhabit Hokkaido, are not an indigenous people, unlike the Aborigines in Australia and Native Americans in the United States. It said the Jomon people ...

Since the mid-1970s I had been investigating the relationship between plants and people in prehistoric northeastern Japan, particularly Hokkaido, using an archeological tool called flotation.

Japanese weather officials say a rapidly growing low-pressure system is intensifying winds across the country, bringing ...

Police in Nakashibetsu, Hokkaido, have arrested a 58-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of fraudulent obstruction of business after he mixed urine into hand soap in a drugstore toilet. Police said ...

Japanese culture has all but assimilated the the Ainu, leaving few people even aware of their heritage. Hokkaido still offers opportunities to learn about and experience Ainu culture which informs ...

A research team in Japan has warned that unreleased stress energy at an undersea trench off northern Japan has become large ...

Jewelry makers and an embroiderer are among the craftspeople whose creations reflect the Indigenous people’s heritage. Torii gates at the entrance to Akan-Mashu National Park on Hokkaido ...

As the number of users is unlikely to recover from a prolonged decline, JR Hokkaido has decided to close the station.

Thousands of people evacuated from parts of northern Japan as the ... but it is the biggest since the 1992 wildfire" in Kushiro, Hokkaido, a disaster management agency spokesman told AFP Saturday.