The Ainu were distributed in the northern and central islands of Japan, from Sakhalin island in the north to the Kuril islands and the island of Hokkaidō and Northern Honshū, although some investigators place their former range as throughout Honshū and as far north as the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in what is now Cape Lopatka.

However, it was only after moving to the northern island of Hokkaidō in 1912 with his wife, as part of a settlement effort, that his martial art training took on real depth.

It should be noted that Japan has a small number of minorities such as Ryūkyū peoples, Koreans and Chinese, and on the northern island of Hokkaidō, the indigenous Ainu minority.

It also covers most of Sweden, Finland, much of Norway, lowland / coastal areas of Iceland, much of Russia from St. Petersburg in the west to the Pacific ocean ( including much of Siberia ), northern Kazakhstan, northern Mongolia, and northern Japan ( on the island of Hokkaidō ).

* January 27 – The Republic of Ezo is proclaimed on the northern Japanese island of Ezo ( which will be renamed Hokkaidō on September 20 ) by remaining adherents to the Tokugawa shogunate.

La Pérouse Strait, or Sōya Strait, is a strait dividing the southern part of the Russian island of Sakhalin ( Karafuto ) from the northern part of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, and connecting the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east.

From 1908 to 1988 the ferry served as the primary transport between the island of Honshū and the northern island of Hokkaidō.

Ainu ( Ainu:, Aynu itak ; Japanese: Ainu-go ) is one of the Ainu languages, spoken by members of the Ainu ethnic group on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaidō.

Recent evidence suggests that a migration of Emishi from northern Honshū to Hokkaidō took place sometime between the seventh and eighth centuries, perhaps as a direct result of this policy that pre-dated Tamuramaro's appointment.

In Japan, the electrical power supply to households is at 100 V. Eastern and northern parts of Honshū ( including Tokyo ) and Hokkaidō have a frequency of 50 Hz, whereas western Honshū ( including Nagoya, Osaka, and Hiroshima ), Shikoku, Kyūshū and Okinawa operate at 60 Hz.

Volcanic ash from this eruption has been found as far away as the southern part of Hokkaidō, the northern island of Japan.

Pro-Tokugawa remnants, however, then retreated to northern Honshū ( Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei ) and later to Ezo ( present-day Hokkaidō ), where they established the breakaway Republic of Ezo.

The people who migrated to the northern tip of Honshū and Hokkaidō region retained their identity and their separate ethnicity, and their descendants eventually formed the Satsumon culture in Hokkaidō.

The Japanese envoy for his part describes the contemporary relationship with the various Emishi: those who had allied themselves with the Yamato court ( known as niki-emishi, i. e. " gentle Emishi "), those who remained as enemies staunchly opposed to Yamato ( known as ara-emishi, i. e. " rough Emishi " or " wild Emishi "), and the distant Tsugaru Emishi ( located in present-day northern Aomori and in southern Hokkaidō ).

Third Fleet aircraft conducted attacks upon Tokyo, the naval base at Kure and the northern Japanese island of Hokkaidō, and Third Fleet battleships engaged in the bombardment of a number of Japanese coastal cities in preparation for an invasion of Japan, which ultimately never had to be undertaken.

The breeding range covers north-east China, Mongolia and south-east Siberia ( as far west as Lake Baikal ) with small numbers in northern Japan ( Hokkaidō and northern Honshū ).

On March 1, 1952 the 39th Air Division was established at Misawa, and through January 15, 1968, the Air Division controlled all of the units responsible for the air defense of north Japan, which included northern Honshū and Hokkaidō islands and the contiguous territorial waters.

Originating along the Japanese islands this current passes through the Sea of Japan then divides along either shore of Sakhalin Island, eventually flowing into the northern Pacific Ocean via the strait north of Hokkaidō and into the Sea of Okhotsk north of Sakhalin Island near Vladivostok.

The distribution of zarigani comprises Hokkaidō and northern Tōhoku ( the northern area of Honshū ).

In some third-world cultures, like the Himba in northern Namibia, bare-breasted women are the social norm, while a woman's thigh is highly sexualised and not exposed in public.

* 631 – Emperor Taizong of Tang, the Emperor of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to seek the release of enslaved Chinese prisoners captured during the transition from Sui to Tang from the northern frontier ; this embassy succeeded in freeing 80, 000 Chinese men and women who were then returned to China.

In northern Quebec and Nunavut, Inuit women are being educated to be midwives in their own communities.

People of Mediterranean origin report as painful some radiant heat intensities that northern Europeans describe as nonpainful, and Italian women tolerate less intense electric shock than Jewish or Native American women.

Six people ( three men and three women, including a teenager ) killed when two gunmen opened fire from an ambush on Israeli vehicles traveling between Shlomi and Kibbutz Metzuba near the northern border with Lebanon.

In the Kumaon region of northern India, it is called Maddua and is traditionally fed to women after child birth.

On June 11, 631, Emperor Taizong also sent envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to persuade the release of enslaved Chinese prisoners who were captured during the transition from Sui to Tang from the northern frontier ; this embassy succeeded in freeing 80, 000 Chinese men and women who were then returned to China.

According to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, the Métis were historically the children of French fur traders and Nehiyaw women or, from unions of English or Scottish traders and northern Dene women ( Anglo-Métis ).

A site found in 1968 in Tillia tepe ( literally " The golden hill ") in northern Afghanistan ( former Bactria ) near Shebergan consisted of the graves of five women and one man with extremely rich jewelry, dated to around the 1st century BC, and generally thought to belong to Scythian tribes.

A sample of 273 people in rural France was measured at 47 % prevalence., in research done in the northern district of Israel approximately 21 % of pregnant women had toxoplasmosis infection.

To further portray the reality of northern, working-class women, Cissie and Ada would sit with folded arms, occasionally adjusting their bosoms by a hoist of the forearms.

Over twelve thousand visitors come to this small northern Wisconsin town each year in late July to watch men and women compete in 21 different events, including log rolling, chopping, timed hot ( power ) saw and bucksaw cutting, and pole climbing.

Duvall and Pedraza have been active supporters of Pro Mujer, a non-profit charity organization dedicated to helping Latin America's poorest women ( with Duvall and Pedraza concentrating on Pedraza's home of northern Argentina ) help themselves through micro-credit, business training and health care links.

Now, institutional slavery has been banned worldwide, but there are numerous reports of women sex slaves in areas without effective government control, such as Sudan, Liberia, Sierra Leone, northern Uganda, Congo, Niger and Mauritania.

Both women worked to form the Council on Religion and the Homosexual ( CRH ) in northern California to persuade ministers to accept homosexuals into churches, and used their influence to decriminalize homosexuality in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Opponents of this allegation argue that women are paid higher wages working in a maquiladora than they commonly would in other forms of employment in northern Mexico.

Historians speculate that Smith was trying to embarrass northern Democrats who opposed civil rights for women because the clause was opposed by labor unions.

However, in Sweden and also parts of northern Poland the graves were oriented north-south, men lay on their left side and women on the right side-both facing east.

The phenomenon of the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez, called in Spanish feminicidio (" femicide ") involves the violent deaths of hundreds of women and girls since 1993 in the northern Mexican region of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, a border city across the Rio Grande from the U. S. city of El Paso, Texas.

* Orchard Park – A residential community, once a large apple orchard, situated along the northern part of Felters Road ; most of the streets in this community are named after women of the Greblick family ( e. g., Stephanie Lane, Angela Court, Karen Court, Cheryl Drive, and Bernice Boulevard ).

East coastal and northern Britain were settled by women wearing cruciform brooches, which came from coastal Scandinavia, all of Denmark, and Schleswig-Holstein all the way south to the lower Elbe and all the way east to the Oder, as well as a pocket in coastal Friesland, the embarkation point.

In his book The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell described life for the unemployed in northern England during the depression: " Several hundred men risk their lives and several hundred women scrabble in the mud for hours ... searching eagerly for tiny chips of coal in slagheaps so they could heat their own homes.