The Vanishing Ainus -- Scene at an Ainu settlement in the district of Shiraoi, island of Hokkaido. While the world moved forward the Ainus have stood still, primitive and content. Men are short, stocky, hairy, copper-colored, with distinctly Aryan features, reminiscent of mythological gnomes. They are believed to have migrated to Japan in prehistoric times from the Siberian coasts. At one time they overran the archipelago, were driven steadily northward by the Yamato armies, pacified and settle
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