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 ...

It’s the first case where the remains of an Ainu person who lived on Sakhalin were returned to Japan from overseas. Ainu were indigenous people of Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the Kuril islands who ...

and “Netsugen,” (heat source), a novel about Ainu residents of Karafuto (Sakhalin), which won the prestigious Naoki Prize. The new Ainu museum is receiving many reservations for visits by ...

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 ...

The Ainu believe that the world rests on the back of a giant trout, that otters caused human beings to be flawed, and that seeing an owl fly across the face of the moon at night is cause for great ...

UNESCO says the Ainu language is "critically endangered" and that some dialects from Sakhalin and Kuril are extinct. The word means "hello" in Ainu. Maya Sekine, a student of Keio University ...

Originally inhabiting the Northern area of Japan, Ainu people once populated the northern Tohoku region, Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and to Kuril Island between the 17th century and 19th century ...

The governor of Russia’s Pacific island region of Sakhalin has declared an emergency after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off its southwest coast. There was no danger to the crew of the An ...

Tokyo will respond to decisions of the Russian side on the Sakhalin-1 on the basis of the relevant decree and consultations with stakeholders, Yasutoshi Nishimura noted TOKYO, October 9.