The Ainu are an indigenous ethnic group who reside in northern Japan and southeastern Russia, including Hokkaido and the Tōhoku region of Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, su
Ainu people in front of a traditional building in Shiraoi, Hokkaido.
Hokkaido Ainu clan leader, 1930
Omusha ceremony involving the Hidaka Ainu, by Hirasawa Byōzan [ja] c. 19th century
A Japanese samurai with a group of Ainu, c. 1775
Sakhalin is a Russian island in Northeast Asia. Its north coast lies 6.5 km off the southeastern coast of Khabarovsk Krai in Russia, while its southern tip lies 40 kilometres north of the Japanese isl
La Perouse charted most of the southwestern coast of Sakhalin (or "Tchoka", as he heard natives call it) in 1787.
Anton Chekhov museum in Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, Russia. It is the house where he stayed in Sakhalin during 1890.
Central part of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 2009