Ainu Koton (Ainu Village) on the bank of Akan Lake.
The Ainu are Japan's counterpart to North America's Inuit (Eskimo) People. They inhabited the Japanese Isles long before Chinese and Mongolians emmigrated here to become the "Japanese" as we know them today. These days full blood Ainu are scarce and the small population that does remain, is basically restricted to the island of Hokkaido.

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