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Daimyo are Japanese lords with large landholdings and a private samurai army, who paid no taxes to the government. The daimyo controlled the samurai, who protected the daimyo, and therefore are higher than them on the pyramid.
Japanese people migrated north to the islands in the 18th and 19th century, including members of Hokkaido's minority Ainu community. In 1855, Russia and Japan signed the Treaty of Shimoda, which gave Japan ownership of the four southern islands and Russia ownership of everything to the north.