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Some strayed out on the bleak mainland, looking for shelter in the huts of the aboriginal Ainus.

From Time Magazine Archive

Anthropologist Sternberg suspects that many thousands of years ago the Ainus migrated to Japan via more southerly islands�perhaps the Philippines, the Moluccas, Oceania.

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The Hairy Ainus of Japan catch salmon with grizzly bears.

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From far-off Hokkaido, lured by an enterprising Tokyo promoter, a tribe of Japan's aboriginal Ainus came to stage the first touring performance of their ancient bear festival.

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Confronted with the Hairy Ainus, he had touched a high level of facetiousness.

From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)