Ainu people
The Ainu are the indigenous people of the lands surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, including Hokkaido Island, Northeast Honshu Island, Sakhalin Island, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula and Khabarovsk Krai, before the arrival of the Yamato Japanese and Russians.
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Hokkaido
Second largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture.
Second largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture.
Although there were Japanese settlers who ruled the southern tip of the island since the 16th century, Hokkaido was considered foreign territory that was inhabited by the indigenous people of the island, known as the Ainu people.
Nivkh people
The Nivkh, or Gilyak (also Nivkhs or Nivkhi, or Gilyaks; ethnonym: Нивхгу, Nʼivxgu (Amur) or Ниғвңгун, Nʼiɣvŋgun (E.
The Nivkh, or Gilyak (also Nivkhs or Nivkhi, or Gilyaks; ethnonym: Нивхгу, Nʼivxgu (Amur) or Ниғвңгун, Nʼiɣvŋgun (E.
![Giliaki or Yupi (meaning "[people wearing clothes made of] fish-skin"; a Chinese appellation also used for the Nani people) on an early 18 c. French map depicting the Vries Strait and the Strait of Tartary. Note that Niuchi doesn't refer to Nivkh but rather for Jurchen,](https://hyperleap.com/images/620089cf802def38ddde774c167f2202/200-e9ce18e31dcba789450bfca7b22e426c.jpg)
Ming Chinese outposts in Sakhalin and the Amur river area received animal skin tribute from Ainu on Sakhalin, Uilta and Nivkh in the 15th century after the Tyr based Yongning Temple was set up along with the Nurkan (Nurgan) outposts by the Yongle emperor in 1409.
Sakhalin
Largest island of Russia.
Largest island of Russia.
Smaller minorities were the Ainu, Ukrainians, Tatars, Yakuts and Evenks.
Kuril Islands
The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (Japanese: "Kuril Islands" (クリル列島) or "Thousand Islands" (千島列島)) are a volcanic archipelago part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East.
The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (Japanese: "Kuril Islands" (クリル列島) or "Thousand Islands" (千島列島)) are a volcanic archipelago part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East.
The name Kuril originates from the autonym of the aboriginal Ainu, the islands' original inhabitants: kur, meaning 'man'.
Sakhalin Oblast
Federal subject of Russia comprising the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in the Russian Far East.
Federal subject of Russia comprising the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in the Russian Far East.
Japanese or Ainu: 0.05%
Ryukyuan people
East Asian ethnic group native to the Ryukyu Islands, which stretch between the islands of Kyushu and Taiwan.
East Asian ethnic group native to the Ryukyu Islands, which stretch between the islands of Kyushu and Taiwan.
The Ryukyuans differ strongly from the Ainu people, which, according to the authors, is a strong evidence for the heterogeneity of the Jōmon period population.
Japanese people
Ethnic group that is native to the Japanese archipelago and modern country of Japan, where they constitute 98.1% of the country’s population.
Ethnic group that is native to the Japanese archipelago and modern country of Japan, where they constitute 98.1% of the country’s population.
Later, Philipp Franz von Siebold argued that the Ainu people were indigenous to northern Japan.
Ulch people
Indigenous people of the Russian Far East, who speak a Tungusic language known as Ulch.
Indigenous people of the Russian Far East, who speak a Tungusic language known as Ulch.
Their religion bears similarities to the religion of the Nivkh people and Ainu people.
Kuril Islands dispute
Territorial dispute between Japan and the Russian Federation over the ownership of the four southernmost Kuril Islands.
Territorial dispute between Japan and the Russian Federation over the ownership of the four southernmost Kuril Islands.
Some individuals of the Ainu also claim the Kuril Islands, on the basis that their ethnic group inhabited the archipelago and Sakhalin prior to the arrival of Japanese and Russian settlers in the 19th century.
Jōmon period
Time in Japanese prehistory, traditionally dated between c. undefined 14,000–300 BCE, during which Japan was inhabited by a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity.
Time in Japanese prehistory, traditionally dated between c. undefined 14,000–300 BCE, during which Japan was inhabited by a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity.
The relationship of Jōmon people to the modern Japanese (Yamato people), Ryukyuans, and Ainu is not well clarified.