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	Aiko Kensha
		The representative of this far-northern strain is the Akita.
		The Odate area was separated from the rest of the district by the mountains to the east and by the climate to the south.
		In 1899 an organisation for dogfights was established in Odate.
	www.aikokensha.com /history.html (2500 words)

	Akita Breed Reference - History Of The Akita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The care and training of the Akita was very ritualized and dogs achieved rank according to their degree of training and of course, the personal preference of the Emperor.
		Indeed, the Akita that stole the great Helen Keller's heart and with which she was frequently photographed would not today be regarded as pure bred in either America or Japan.
		It is therefore of genetic significance that the reason AKC steadfastly refused to honor Japanese export pedigrees because of concern for the authenticity of the paperwork and the purity of breeds.
	www.thedogplace.com /Reference/Akita/akita_history.htm (1265 words)

	Temperament
		The Akita is very well suited to the coldest of climates, and while it might not enjoy hot weather, its coat does lighten considerably in the warmer months to compensate for the heat.
		Akitas, as with most dogs, live their lives in a pack environment, whether the pack be animals or people.
		Akita’s give very little warning when they are angry, they may growl or left the hair on the back on their neck but some Akita’s are not vocal enough to bark when __.
	home.mchsi.com /~akitafarm/info.htm (5238 words)

	Oriental Breeds Association of Victoria Inc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Akita was also known as the Odate dog - named after the rugged mountainous area of Odate in the prefecture of Akita, on the island of Honshu.
		Akitas eventually came to be used as cattle herders, seeing eye dogs, sled pullers and police dogs.
		With uncanny ability, the Akita adjusts to and accepts widely varying circumstances and lifestyles not as an imposition upon its freedom, but as a way of life.
	www.obav.org.au /akita.htm (475 words)

	Dog Breed Information - Akita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Akita or Akita Inu is a breed of large Japanese dog, named for Akita Prefecture, where it is thought to have originated.
		Although the AKC has put the Akita in the Working Group, historically, the Akita was used as a hound to run large game, such as bears, in the mountainous areas of Japan.
		Akita were later bred with Hokkaido and Karafuto dogs, which were introduced to mainland Japan after the Sino-Japanese War.
	www.mydog-trainer.com /dog_breeds/Akita.htm (913 words)

	Akita Inu (Akita-ken). History, origin and breed description
		The Akita is named after its native country, the Akita prefecture, the northernmost area on the island Honshu (Japan).
		The name Akita Inu, as they are called in Japan (Inu meaning dog), was not used until September 1931, when the Akita was designated a natural monument.
		During World War II the breed came close again to being extinct because many Akitas, especially those in the cities, were killed for food or for their pelts.
	www.bulldoginformation.com /Akita-inu.html (804 words)

	Akita Inu at Kaynine Online
		The Akita was known as the Odate dog; named after the rugged mountainous area of Odate in the prefecture of Akita, on the island of Honshu.
		The Akita is the largest of the eight dogs regarded as being indigenous to Japan and throughout its turbulent past the Akita Inu has been used to hunt ducks, birds, small fur bearing animals, deer, elk, antelope, monkeys, boar or bear (including the 8001b Yezo bear).
		The Akita is an irresistible attention getter and personified all the enigmatic character of the Orient.
	www.kaynineonline.com /breed_akita.htm (893 words)

	Dog Owner's Guide Profile: The Akita
		Akitas are most striking and impressive creatures with an attitude of nobility and an appearance of strength and power.
		It is feline in its actions; it is not unusual for an Akita to clean its face after eating, to preen its kennel mate, and to be fastidious in the house.
		The individual Akita is happy being an only dog or one of two dogs in a household, but can be very aggressive towards animals not part of his family group, particularly strange dogs.
	www.canismajor.com /dog/akita.html (1693 words)

	Akita Info - History of the Akita
		Originally called the "Odate Dog" the name was later changed to Akita-Inu when the breed became a natural monument and national treasure in 1931 and so became the National Dog of Japan.
		Other discoveries from the Akita region dating back to 8,000 B.C. to about 200 B.C. suggest the people were hunters gatherers and fisherman and that the dogs of that era known as the "Matagi-Inu" were in fact (as the name translates) "hunting dogs".
		Unfortunately, the Akita was also cross bred with the fearless fighting dog known as the Japanese Tosa to produce a dog with a superior fighting ability.
	www.akitalove.com /history.html (827 words)

	History Akita
		Its origins are ancient and start in the Akita region (prefecture, according to the Japanese geography), situated in the northern part of the Island of Honsu.
		It lived in the VIII century in the Odate mountains and was used above all for the bear and wild boar hunting.
		Due to the spread of dog-fights, the Akita courage was crossed with the strength of more impressive dogs, molossoidis, coming from the west, thus transforming it.
	www.akita.it /HistoryAkita.htm (505 words)

	The history of the Akita breed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Research data on native domesticated animals seem to indicate that the Akita dog came from the continent before it was separated by the Sea of Japan, while the Oriental type dog such as the Shiba dog is believed to have come from China and Korea, with settlers from Asia, to the Hiroshima area.
		The inner qualities of the Akita include soboku-kan (an expression of elegant simplicity or shibumi, kan-i (spirit, vim and vigour and ryousei (excellent temperament and character and it’s characteristics are goki (strong and heroic, chinkaku (composure, calmness, soboku-sa (simplicity, unsophisticated, igen (dignity, majesty and hinkaku (grace, dignity.
		Hachiko, a white male Akita, was born in Odate, Akita Prefecture in November 1923.
	www.moellgaard.dk /English/Dogs/Akitas/Akitas_and_GJDs.htm (2543 words)

	Britt's Akita Page
		The truth of the matter is that regional dogs were kept in villages near Odate as guard dogs as well as in the mountains as hunting dogs, Matagi-inus.
		Tokio Kaburagi to Odate, with a stipulation that the Akita dog be restored toward what one believes to be the pure Japanese dog type.
		In Akita, large dogs were called the Odate dog, Nambu dog, Kazuno dog, etc. The name Akita inu, representing all the large dogs in Odate, was now used for the first time upon it’s legislation in September 1931 and 9 superior Akita dogs were designated as Natural Monuments.
	home.online.no /~kintos/britt/eng_to.htm (1804 words)

	Akita Dog (Odate Dog) Standard
		Shortly after, however, I was contacted by telephone and informed that the Akita I introduced would not meet the requirement.
		The Akitas I recommended were all grown dogs, and it was feared that there could possibly be an accident.
		After the conclusion of the war, in the summer of 1947, out of the blue, I received a message from Miss Keller through the Mainichi Press that she had come to Japan on a speaking engagement.
	www.northlandakitas.com /hellen.htm (1055 words)

	Media-Akita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Odate, in the northern part of Akita-prefecture, is Hachiko's home town.
		The ancestors of the Akita breed are said to have come to Japan before Japan and the European continent were separated by the Sea of Japan.
		Akitas were needed as guard dogs during that confused time.
	www.media-akita.or.jp /akita-inu/akitas-introdE.html (450 words)

	History
		Interestingly, Odate was known as "dog town" in the late 1880's and was the epicenter for competitive dog fighting in Japan.
		Akitas, to the Japanese, are the canine equivalents to Koi carp, and their breeding is analogous to the art of horticultural bonsai.
		Since Akitas in Japan are not judged on movement (they are judged "in place," freely standing), they frequently need improvement in their structural conformation.
	www.inu.com /history.htm (2381 words)

	Britt's Akita Page
		The purpose with the WUAC is to promote and improve the Akita breed by arranging seminars, judge’s conferences and exhibitions for the Akita in collaboration with the JKC, and also to work for a sound and healthy breed.
		Up till 1974 Akitas could be registered with the AKC but the import registry was closed when they decided not to acknowledge JKC’s Akita registry, which at this time had Nippo, Akiho and Akikyo Akitas.
		The Akitas special expression: the head, the eyes and the ears form and placement, the coat’s structure and density, proportions and angulations in it’s front and rear, including the breeds calm and controlled composure exist in many Akitas today but also has potentials of improvement.
	home.online.no /~kintos/britt/eng_fire.htm (1592 words)

	History1
		The Akita wherever it originated did in its early stages become indigenous to Northern Japan, where its type was further refined and developed by the needs of those early people mostly towards a hunting dog.
		The goal of early Japanese Akita pioneers was to restore and increase the size ("original" Akitas were about the size of larger medium size dogs) to their newer standard while retaining the primitive characteristics, working to eradicate all traces of western type characteristics as seen in today's "impure" American classic type.
		American Akitas are larger and stockier, with much more power, heavy in dark or fl (from the Dewa lines), also reds, whites, pinto's, all these often with a fl mask (old Ichinoseki lines), and a mixture of everything in between.
	www.nylana.org /RRACI/history1.htm (3362 words)

	Hachi-Ko
		Hachi-Ko Hachi-Ko is the most famous Akita in the history of the breed.
		He was born in 1923 in the Akita Prefecture and was a gift to Prof.
		The Shibuya Station Hachi-Ko has a dropped ear; whereas, both the Odate statue and Hachi-Ko's stuffed remains, which are at the National Science Museum in Tokyo, have both ears erect.
	www.akitaclub.org /history/hachiko.html (439 words)

	Hachiko - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		'faithful dog Hachiko'), was an Akita dog born in November, 1923, in the city of Odate, Akita Prefecture.
		In 1924, he was brought to Tokyo by his owner, Eisaburo Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo.
		The statue was recycled for the war effort during World War II, but another statue was erected in August, 1947, which still stands and is an extremely popular meeting spot.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Hachiko (362 words)

	Akita Inu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Akita or Akita Ken is a breed of large dog originating in Japan, named for Akita Prefecture, where it is thought to have originated.
		Akitas are a large breed, not a giant breed.
		Akitas have been described as almost "cat-like," as they are clean and odorless.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akita_Inu (1736 words)

	Houses / homes / Real Estate for sale or for rent in Odate, Akita, Japan - and vacation rentals
		If you are considering buying real estate in Odate or anywhere else for that matter, the most widely used method of borrowing the funds to make the purchase is a mortgage.
		A mortgage is often used to fund the purchase of a house, home, apartment or villa to be used as vacation rentals.
		If you are considering buying real estate in Odate, Akita, Japan or anywhere else for that matter, the most widely used method of borrowing the funds to make the purchase is a mortgage.
	www.propertyworld.com /_Japan_Akita_Odate (783 words)

	Host City, Odate
		We were very lucky to be invited to Odate, a city of 68,000 in the north center of Honshu, the main island of Japan.
		Odate is in a plain surrounded by beautiful mountains covered with cedar trees.
		When we got to Odate we found out that they were also very nervous about hosting us American teachers, since very few foreign tourists visit Odate.
	www.motthall.org /intro/world/usjapan/images/fmfpage16.html (152 words)

	Akita History
		Akita ancestors, except for Moku-Go, were never "temple dogs." Their ownership was never restricted to Japanese royalty.
		To summarize: the Akita was not "originally" bred to hunt bears, deer or anything else (except other dogs, perhaps).
		Many breeders of Akitas in the US and abroad have failed to ever understand the original goals of Japanese breed restoration or, they have chosen to ignore them.
	www.inu.com /history1.htm (2303 words)

	Akita Prefecture - Virtual Japan Wiki
		Akita Prefecture (秋田県) is located in the Tohoku region on the island of Honshu.
		The plant's stalk is over 1.5 meters long and its leaves are over a meter wide.
		Odate Jukai Dome is 78 meters long and 157 meters wide with a height of 52 meters.
	www.virtualjapan.com /wiki/Akita_Prefecture (92 words)

	Tribute to an Akita dog’s faithfulness and loyalty
		Many years ago, there lived a great Akita dog that left its print on Japan’s history with his unconditional love and loyalty for his owner.
		This dog was born in November, 1923, in the city Odate, Akita Prefecture.
		A second less known statue was also erected in 1935, in front of the Odate station (Hachiko’s birthplace).
	www.fluffydogs.com /akita-dog-breed/akita-information/177 (388 words)

	Akita Inu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Akitas from Japan and Akitas from the U.S. and other countries are all registered with the American Kennel Club as "Akitas." In many other countries the breed has been separated into two breeds: the Akita and the American Akita.
		Akitas properly socialized and raised with other animals usually accept them as members of the family.
		An Akita named Kato was a key part of the OJ Simpson trial.
	caninecoalition.com /dog-breeds/Akita-Inu (1728 words)

	bacground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hideyoshi was vanquished and Satake was ordered by the Tokugawa Shogunate to move from his former domain of Mito to Akita in the extreme north of Honshu.
		As castellans of Odate castle, the western branch of Satake family set about trying to relieve the poverty of their people by using the rich supplies of timber to be found in the fief.
		Full advantage is taken of the grain and scent of Akita's own supplies of cedar wood, which is also highly flexible.
	www.kougei.or.jp /english/crafts/0603/d0603-1.html (268 words)

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