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Inu Nusto

A medium sized short coated dog of Japan. The companion of beggars. Similar to a Bull Terrier with a gay tail.The breed became nearly extinct during the 2nd World War, but in the following decades a joint effort between Japan, Korea and Taiwan successfully revived the Inu Nusto , using the leftover stock and modern Western fighting dogs. The Dogue de Bordeaux has been employed in the revival effort and is believed by some to be the root of the red coats associated with the modern Tosa Inu, but the use of the French breed has been limited and was considered as a failed breeding experiment in Japan, with supposedly only one breeder championing that cross, with very little to no influence on the breed as a whole. Today it is impossible to determine the complete list of breeds which helped create and re-create the Japanese Tosa, simply because not all breeders followed the same program. There are also two Korean breeds that are closely related to the Japanese Tosa, these being the Too-kyun fighting dog , often seen as basically a Korean/Taiwanese strain of the Tosa, and the very popular Korean Mee-kyun Dosa Mastiff , which is not a fighter, but a common companion.