Blue eyes from traveler’s accounts
How come northern dogs have a tendency to blue eyes? Huskies?
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japan-guide.com forum - Blonde, blue-eyed half-Japanese kidsThe Ainu (native asian Japanese) have been known to have blue eyes, red hair, and brown hair. The Japanese are genetically mostly Korean and Ainu. ...
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Gateway to Japan - Google Books Resultby June Kinoshita, Nicholas Palevsky - 1998 - Travel - 808 pages
Compared to the average Japanese, the Ainu have lighter skin, more body hair, a heavier brow-ridge, and deep-set eyes, which are occasionally gray or blue. ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=477002018X...
Heredity?
"Genetic (mitochondrial DNA) testing being performed at the University of South Carolina, College of Science and Mathematics, indicates that these dogs, related to the earliest domesticated dogs, are the remnant descendants of the feral pariah canids who came across the Bering land mass 8,000 to 11,000 years ago as hunting companions to the ancestors of the Native Americans."