White spots on the skin do not usually cause pain, itching, or irritation, but they usually cause distress, especially in people with darker skin, where the contrast in skin color is more obvious. White spots may occur in people of all races or skin color.
Predecessors of the modern Akita were used for hunting bear, wild boar and deer in Japan as late as 1957. They would be used to flush out the bear and keep it at bay until the hunter could come and kill it. Today, the breed is used primarily as a companion dog.or a while, the American strain of Akita was known in some countries as the Great Japanese Dog. Both forms of Akita are probably best known worldwide from the true story of HachikÅ, a loyal Akita who lived in Japan before World War II.
The Akita breed, therefore, was still in a state of flux, only 15 or so years before the first imports started to arrive in the USA. Knowing this, it is not too difficult to understand how the Japanese and American types of Akita evolved so differently since the time scale for both is similar.