I know that the Ainu are original inhabitants of Japan and are in many ways different culturally and racially from the persons we commonly consider ethnic Japanese. But who exactly were these people + were they there before the Jomon period?
Also, I've heard that the original Ainu are actually classified as "Caucasoids"? Hence, are the depleted Ainu comminities which still exist in Hokkaido "original Ainu" or has their bloodline become perminantly dissolved similar to Pictish Poeple who formarly inhabited the British Isles?
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