It has only been called by its current name, meaning "region of the Northern Sea," since 1869, before which it was called Yezo. It now has only about 16,000 of the aboriginal 
It has only been called by its current name, meaning "region of the Northern Sea," since 1869, before which it was called Yezo. It now has only about 16,000 of the aboriginal people who once inhabited all the islands that make up its country, but in 1800 the majority of its people were still Ainu. Hakodate on the Tusgaru Strait and the ski resort of Sapporo are main cities of, for 10 points, what northernmost of Japan's home islands?
It has only been called by its current name, meaning "region of the Northern Sea," since 1869, before which it was called Yezo.
{Hokkaido}