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Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have a TL where the domain of the Ainu people, Ainu Moshir (encompassing Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) is established as a single self-governing nation, and retains (or regains) its unified independence to the present day. What would be the best POD to bring this about? And what might the repercussions be in such a TL?

EDIT: Bonus points if this Ainu nation also encompasses Northern Honshu, and becomes a greater world power ITTL than Japan did IOTL.
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