A Popular Breed
The Japanese are actually a crossbreed. During the 1920s and 1930s, dog breeders in Japan created the Japanese Spitz by crossbreeding a couple of other Spitz breeds to produce the beloved and popular Japanese Spitz.
White Japanese Spitz dog portrait. Source: Shutterstock.com
So the process occurred where initially, breeders started with white German Spitz dogs, originally brought over from the northeastern parts of China to Japan. In 1921 at a dog shown in Tokyo, they were finally shown to the world.
Things start becoming strange…