An indigenous group who predominantly inhabit the Japanese island of Hokkaido, members of the Ainu community held a traditional service at the university before the formal transfer of the skulls.

Three skulls from Japan that were given to Edinburgh University in 1913 have been returned to the indigenous community where they originated. The remains of the Ainu people - donated by Scottish ...

The skulls of three indigenous Japanese people believed to have lived over 100 years ago have been returned to their descendants by a university. In a poignant repatriation ceremony, the ...

The skulls of three indigenous Japanese people believed to have lived over 100 years ago have been returned to their descendants by a university. In a poignant repatriation ceremony, the University of ...

A university in Scotland has returned ancestral remains to indigenous Ainu people of Japan that were kept in its museum for over a century. The skulls of three Ainu people were given back to ...

Tohoku University ranked first for the fourth consecutive year in the Japan University Rankings released in March by Times Higher Education, a British specialist journal. The Sendai-based ...