The Ainu are the indigenous people of the lands surrounding the...
wikipedia - 11 Jan 2022The 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.[7][8][9][10] These regions are referred to as Ezo (蝦夷) in historical Japanese texts.