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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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The Bushmen of Australia, the Ainus of Japan and the Dravidians of India have survived from a stock almost as remote.

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

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See also J. Batchelor, The Ainu of Japan, 1892, and the article "Ainus" in Ency. of Religion and Ethics, 1908.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court