The younger generation is making an effort to learn Okinawan, the biggest of the six main indigenous languages of the Ryukyu islands Standing up one by one at their wooden desks, the students giggled, ...

Like a growing number of Ainu, Atsushi Monbetsu has reclaimed his identity and some of the Indigenous group's traditional practices AFP In a forest in northern Japan's Hokkaido, Atsushi Monbetsu ...

No one mentioned or denied the Ryukyu being placed in the Japonic languages and no one said the original language was closer related to Sinitic languages than Japonic languages. I clearly identified ...

Like a growing number of Ainu, Atsushi Monbetsu has reclaimed his identity and some of the Indigenous group's traditional practices - Copyright AFP Yuichi YAMAZAKI ...

Biratori/Naha (Japan) (AFP) – In a forest in northern Japan's Hokkaido, Atsushi Monbetsu kneels on the moss in the thick morning fog and begins to pray in a language that has nearly disappeared.

In a forest in northern Japan's Hokkaido, Atsushi Monbetsu kneels on the moss in the thick morning fog and begins to pray in a language that has nearly disappeared. "Kamuy," he begins, addressing the ...

In a forest in Hokkaido, Atsushi Monbetsu kneels on the moss in the thick morning fog and begins to pray in a language that has nearly disappeared. "Kamuy," he begins, addressing the gods of the Ainu ...