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How plausible is a non-Russia European country using the island of Hokkaido as a settler colony, similar to Australia, New Zealand and much of the Americas? Hokkaido was pretty sparsely populated before the Japanese colonisation, Wikipedia says the Ainu population was 80,000 in the 18th century and the Hokkaido Ainu population was 15,000 in 1868.
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