Many archeologists consider the Ainu to be the last living descendants of the Jomon people, who lived throughout Japan from as early as 13,000 years ago. The Jomon are known for their elaborate ...

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 ...

Kanezaki's initial interest was the Jomon period, which lasted 10,000 years in Japan from about 13,000 years ago, but he began to study the Ainu people after learning that their sentiments and ...

Emblazoned with big letters spelling out JOMON JAPAN, banners snapped in the breeze everywhere in the city of Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture. They also bore a design of a huge wave connecting ...

Yet the relationship between the Jomon and the Ainu is anything but straightforward. Sometime around A.D. 600 to 700 in Hokkaido, rectangular pit-houses suddenly appear, and a new type of ...