<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/24dfc318-1cb1-4134-8e64-870e74611170/5D246AA0-7E3B-4FDE-9497-AF697F0C4D8E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/ainu/" href="http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/ainu/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cryptomundo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/ainu/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cryptomundo.com/img/D62A7AD7-C251-4FD3-A1F6-2870EAE66376" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/ainu/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cryptomundo.com/img/BAC0234D-02E2-4E75-A03D-F2DE8539CA03" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/ainu/"><P>The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan, inhabiting the Northern island of Hokkaido as well as the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin. Their name means “human”, or more accurately the opposite of the gods that inhabit all plants, objects, and animals in their heavily animistic religion.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/ainu/"><P><IMG class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8474" title="japan_hokkaido_map_small_thumb" alt="" src="http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/japan_hokkaido_map_small_thumb.png" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/ainu/"><P><IMG class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8475" title="images-14" alt="" src="http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/images-14.jpeg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/ainu/"><P>Thought to once inhabit all of Japan, the Ainu were pushed northward by the influx of immigration from Asia that occurred primarily during the Yayoi period of Japanese history around 2,300 years ago. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/ainu/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cryptomundo.com/img/8AC545A2-7287-4A37-9588-D1F0AE421DD7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/ainu/"><P>The Ainu have faced a long history of oppression and hardship. 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