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Adherents.com |
 | | "Hokkaido is also known as the home of the Ainu, a fast-disappearing people originally from Honshu who have been forced north into the mountains. |
| | Hokkaido was fully colonised by the Japanese only in the 20th century. |
| | There is a very small community of Ainu on Hokkaido Island who are physically very different from the Japanese, possibly descended from the earliest inhabitants of the islands. |
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