Hokkaidō, Japan

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"The name comes from Ainu Mopet (Quiet River)."
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"Nemuro ( Japanese : 根室市; -shi, Ainu : Ni mu oro )is a city and port located in Nemuro , Hokkaidō."
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"The name is derived from the Ainu Uta Ushi Nai meaning "Swamp of Much Sand" (?)."
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"The Ainu called the Asahi River Chiu Pet meaning "River of Waves", but it was misunderstood as Chup Pet meaning "Sun River", and so it came to be called Asahi River (Asahi = Morning Sun)."
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"The Kai element also strongly resembles the Sino-Japanese reading of the characters 蝦夷 (Sino-Japanese /ka-i/, Japanese kun /emisi/), which have been used for over a thousand years in China and Japan as the standard orthographic form to be used when referring to Ainu and related peoples; it is possible that Matsuura's Kai was actually an alteration, influenced by the Sino-Japanese reading of 蝦夷 Ka-i ,of the Nivkh exonym for the Ainu, namely Qoy."
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"Until then it had been the preserve of Japan's Ainu, a long-suffering indigenous hunter-gatherer culture that preceded the Japanese parvenus by several thousand years."
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"After his death, Masamichi's son, Kono Suemichi, and family were driven out of Hakodate into nearby Kameda during Ainu rebellion in 1512 and little history was recorded for the area during the next 100 years."
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"Home to Japan's aboriginal Ainu race, Hokkaido continues to represent the untamed wilderness with many great national parks."
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