Actual Living Conditions of the Hokkaido Ainu
According to the Survey on the Hokkaido Ainu Living Conditions conducted
in 2006 by the Hokkaido Government, the Ainu population in HokkaidoNote 1 is 23,782 in 72 municipalities. About 59.5% of these live in the
subprefectures of Hidaka and Iburi (as shown on the map to the below).
It is estimated that the Ainu population is far larger than the results
indicate due to the constraints of the survey.
