Wellowbone Tribe of Suzuka

Peering ahead into tomorrow’s Japan:

In 99 years from now.

Wellowbone Tribal People of Suzuka: 99 years from now.
(日本のウェーロボーヌ部族人達)　

In the Central Highlands of the Suzuka Mountain Range, in the misty border regions of Shiga and Mie prefectures, live many “Wellowbones” (Name for a person of Japanese and white parentage) who live to themselves up in the mountains apart from low lying mega-city dwellers. Local traditions vary as to the origin of these people. According to one, they are descendants of early white settlers who intermarried with the Japanese; another relates that in the early 21st century a party of anglo-saxon European and North American common folk who shipwrecked their lives here in Japan, made their way through the urban/rural soup of Kansai from the west and Tokai from the east, and settled among friendly high-hinterland communal Japanese.

The Wellowbones are tall and slender, have a white-yellowish complexion, light-brown/greenish eyes, high cheek bones, and wavy brown hair. The strange semitransparent appearance of their skin is responsible for their odd sobriquet. They are a biannually nomadic people who, in the cooler months live in lower elevation wooded cedar groves, and in the warmer months live on ridges edge. They live off, or rather with, the land through a mix of hunting, forest gardening, trapping and foraging, and sleep under the trees in a portable felt dwelling that looks similar to a yurt, but with a teepee-like ceiling. Satoyama folk frequently trade and in some instances form friendships with the very peaceful and friendly wellowbones, but as a whole the group maintains a stoical reserve which cannot be completely broken.