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A car drives down the BR-156 highway between Amapa state capital Macapa and the town of Oiapoque also in the state, near the border with French Guiana in Brazil on Sept. 2.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Sep 21, 2026
Oil exploration in Brazilian Amazon offers wealth but puts communities at risk
While oil could fund a shift to clean energy and help address poverty, the search to find it disturbs the environment and could cause lasting damage.
Filipino chieftain Petronila Munoz points at the proposed land where the Pax Silica Hub might be built in Capas, Tarlac province, the Philippines, on Sept. 2.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 20, 2026
Philippine tribe in limbo over U.S.-led tech hub
Philippines pushes ahead with semiconductor hub while local tribe warns of unclear boundaries and forced relocation.
Zhang Yabo, a former police officer tasked with enforcing China’s campaign to surveil, detain and indoctrinate the Uyghur population, shows a photo of his baptism as a Roman Catholic in April 2025 on his laptop, in southern Germany on June 24.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 30, 2026
He helped China repress Uyghurs. He says he’s a victim, too.
Former police officer Zhang Yabo described Xinjiang as a giant prison that imprisoned not only countless innocent Uyghurs “but also the souls of those ordered to enforce it.”
Two Ainu men sit in front of an altar during a memorial service for Ainu people killed by <i>wajin</i> (ethnic Japanese) in a 15th-century battle in Kaminokuni, Hokkaido, in 2019.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Jul 20, 2026
With lawsuit over remains, Ainu continue fight for cultural recognition
The Shibechari Ainu Tribe in Hokkaido hopes the lawsuit will set a legal precedent that helps address the injustices stemming from the removal of Ainu remains from their graves.
Indigenous Chief Bepdjo Mekragnotire, of the Kayapo ethnic group, speaks during interview at the Village of Pykany, Menkragnoti Indigenous Territory, southwestern Para state, Brazil, on May 21.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
May 30, 2026
New gold rush threatens indigenous havens in Brazil’s Amazon
“We have to expel them, otherwise, they’ll just keep pushing in,” said Indigenous Chief Bepdjo Mekragnotire.
Members of the Hokkaido Ainu Association place returned remains in a cemetery at the national Ainu cultural facility and perform a memorial service on Friday in Shiraoi, Hokkaido.
JAPAN
May 9, 2026
Ainu indigenous group demands return of ancestors’ remains
The group filed a lawsuit demanding that the remains of 279 Ainu ancestors held by a state facility be returned to their descendants.
Hmong volunteer firefighter Mongkol Yingyotmongkolsaen flies standard and infrared drones to monitor for fires from above, track any flames that are spreading and detect heat at night.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Mar 27, 2026
Tech-equipped Indigenous firefighters protect Thai forests
Hmong villagers zip through forested slopes and cut through brush with machetes while others scan for smoke on live feeds from their phones.
Akinosuke Owada, a graduating student at Akan Ainu Craft Center Harikiki, poses next to one of his works at the school in Kushiro, Hokkaido.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 26, 2026
Ainu craft school aims to pass on culture to students
Students in the Hokkaido center’s inaugural class are set to graduate soon, after completing their training to acquire skills of the Indigenous ethnic group.
A delegate in an ethnic minority costume arrives before the closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 13, 2026
China’s new ethnic unity law could target Taiwanese, Taipei officials warn
China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, already has laws and regulations against Taiwanese independence supporters.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang arrive for the closing session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 12, 2026
China passes ethnic unity law to advance Xi’s assimilation push
For critics, the law adds to pressure on minorities across the Han Chinese-majority country.
Though Okinawa accounts for only 0.6% of 91AV原创 total land, it hosts 70.3% of exclusive-use U.S. military bases.
COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element
Mar 2, 2026
Recentering Okinawa, one story at a time
Through conferences, films and publications, international scholars and journalists are building bridges with Okinawan communities and amplifying the voices of local residents.
Lights illuminate the village of Kapisillit, Greenland. The concept that ownership is shared collectively is central to the Inuit identity.
WORLD / Society
Jan 30, 2026
For Greenland’s Inuit, no one owns the Arctic land
The concept that ownership is shared collectively is central to the Inuit identity, they say.
Lykke Lynge and her children in Nuuk, Greenland, on Jan. 19
WORLD / Politics
Jan 26, 2026
Faced with Trump, Greenlanders try to reassure their children
As early as a week after Trump’s inauguration, the Greenlandic authorities published a guide entitled “How to talk to children in times of uncertainty?”
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (center, right) and Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen (center, left) in Nuuk, Greenland, on Friday.
WORLD / Society
Jan 24, 2026
Greenland and Denmark set aside troubled history to face down Trump
Greenland, a Danish colony for three centuries, still has a complicated relationship with Denmark, but Trump has helped unite them.
Artificial intelligence holds promise for preserving endangered languages, but without meaningful community involvement, speakers of indigenous and regional dialects risk further marginalization as their languages vanish from the digital world.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2025
Can AI save dying languages?
A report from Stanford’s Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence earlier this year found that most major large-language models, or LLMs, underperform in non-English.
A vessel is pictured during a handover ceremony of a skull from a member of an Ainu tribe taken by German researchers at the end of the 19th century in Berlin in July 2017. The Japanese government has said that the remains of five Ainu will be returned from the Natural History Museum in Britain to Japan.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 29, 2025
Five sets of Ainu remains to be returned from Britain
It will be the fourth time that Ainu remains have been returned to Japan from abroad.
A Maniq man rests on a rock during a hunting expedition in Phatthalung in southern Thailand on Aug. 11.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 26, 2025
Thailand’s last hunter-gatherers seek land rights
The Maniq are facing a familiar predicament — under pressure to abandon traditional lifestyles and fighting for rights to land they have long called home.
An Indigenous man holds a sign reading "The death of the forest is the end of our lives" during what was called the "Great People's March" on the sidelines of the COP30 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil on Nov. 15.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 25, 2025
Indigenous peoples’ demands got more than lip service at COP30
Indigenous peoples had unprecedented visibility at the COP30 summit, with about 3,000 in Belem and more than 400 representatives from 361 ethnic groups accredited for the event.
Before Japanese encroachments onto their native land, the Ainu people in what is present-day Hokkaido lived hunter-gatherer lifestyles supplemented by fishing.
JAPAN / History / The Living Past
Nov 15, 2025
Timeless tales throw the march of ‘progress’ into relief
Maybe the Ainu had it right after all? Maybe humankind should have remained in that state? What if we had?
An Indigenous demonstrator is held by security staff after protesters forced their way into the venue hosting the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2025
Protesters force their way into COP30 summit venue and clash with security
Shouting angrily, protesters demanded access to the U.N. compound where thousands of delegates from countries around the world are attending this year’s U.N. climate summit.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru&#039;s Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia&#039;s South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan&#039;s immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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