A report on Hokkaido and 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.
- Ainu peopleAlthough 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.
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Sakhalin
5 linksLargest island of Russia.
Largest island of Russia.
It is located just off Khabarovsk Krai, and is north of Hokkaido in Japan.
Smaller minorities were the Ainu, Ukrainians, Tatars, Yakuts and Evenks.
Kuril Islands
4 linksThe 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.
It stretches approximately 1300 km northeast from Hokkaido in Japan to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the north Pacific Ocean.
The name Kuril originates from the autonym of the aboriginal Ainu, the islands' original inhabitants: kur, meaning 'man'.
Kuril Islands dispute
4 linksTerritorial 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.
The Kuril Islands are a chain of islands that stretch between the Japanese island of Hokkaido at their southern end and the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula at their northern end.
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.
Sea of Okhotsk
3 linksMarginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean.
Marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean.
It is located between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, Japan's island of Hokkaido on the south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and north.
The Okhotsk people and the later Ainu culture, a coastal fishing and hunter-gatherer people, were located around the lands surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, as well as in northern Japan.
Sakhalin Oblast
3 linksFederal 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.
It borders Khabarovsk Krai to the west and Kamchatka Krai to the north, along with Hokkaido, Japan to the south.
Japanese or Ainu: 0.05%
Ezo
1 linksJapanese term historically used to refer to the lands to the north of the Japanese island of Honshu.
Japanese term historically used to refer to the lands to the north of the Japanese island of Honshu.
It included the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, which changed its name from "Ezo" to "Hokkaidō" in 1869, and sometimes included Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands.
The same two kanji used to write the word "Ezo", which literally mean "shrimp barbarians" in Chinese, can also be read in the Japanese language as "Emishi", the name given to the indigenous people of these lands, the descendants of whom are most likely related to the Ainu people.
Shakushain's revolt
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Shakushain's revolt (シャクシャインの戦い) was an Ainu rebellion against Japanese authority on Hokkaidō between 1669 and 1672.
Japanese people
1 linksEthnic 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.
Depending on the context, the term ethnic Japanese (日本民族) may be limited or not to mainland Japanese people, specifically the Yamato (as opposed to Ryukyuan and Ainu people).
As a result, replacement of the hunter gatherers was common in the island regions of Kyūshū, Shikoku, and southern Honshū, but did not prevail in the outlying islands of Okinawa and Hokkaidō, and the Ryukyuan and Ainu people show mixed characteristics.
Menashi–Kunashir rebellion
1 linksThe Menashi-Kunashir rebellion or war (クナシリ・メナシの戦い) or Menashi-Kunashir battle, was a battle in 1789 between Ainu and Wajin on the Shiretoko Peninsula in Northeastern Hokkaido.
Koshamain's War
1 linksKoshamain's War (コシャマインの戦い) was an armed struggle between the Ainu and Wajin that took place on the Oshima Peninsula of southern Hokkaidō, Japan, in 1457.