@BoingBoing The island of Hokkaido was known to the Ainu as Ainu Moshir, and was formally annexed by the Japanese at the late date of 1868,
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@BoingBoing In Japanese, the sound of 'inu' means dog.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BoingBoing I think I saw some drawings about Ainu in the local museum when I had a trip in Kyoto to Osaka.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BoingBoing After World War II, most of the Ainu living in Sakhalin were deported to Japan.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BoingBoing As a result, large numbers of Ainu changed their surnames to Slavic ones.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BoingBoing During Soviet times, people with Ainu surnames were sent to gulags and labor camps, as they were often mistaken for Japanese.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BoingBoing The terms "Kurile", "Kamchatka Kurile", etc., were used to identify the ethnic group.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BoingBoing since Imperial Japanese officials claimed that all the regions inhabited by the Ainu in the past or present belonged to Japan.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BoingBoing During Tsarist times, the Ainu living in Russia were forbidden from identifying themselves as such,Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BoingBoing The Ainu population, as previously Japanese subjects, were "repatriated" to Japan.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BoingBoing at the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan, took possession of the Kuril islands,southern Sakhalin.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BoingBoing The southern half of Sakhalin was acquired by Japan as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05,Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BoingBoing 1,446 persons in the Russian Empire reported Ainu language as their mother tongue, 1,434 of them in Sakhalin Island.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BoingBoing According to the Russian Empire Census of 1897, 1,446 persons in the Russian Empire reportedpic.twitter.com/PCDFIV0Gcq
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@BoingBoing partly as a means of preventing the intrusion of the Russians, and partly for imperialist reasons.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BoingBoing and as far north as the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in what is now Cape Lopatka.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BoingBoing although some investigators place their former range as throughout HonshūThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BoingBoing from Sakhalin island in the north to the Kuril islands and the island of Hokkaido and Northern Honshū,Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BoingBoing The Ainu were distributed in the northern and central islands of Japan,pic.twitter.com/DhcoVor56v
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@BoingBoing and formerly northeastern Honshu) and Russia (Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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